Believing in God is a process of stripping yourself of pride, worry, and selfishness and just living on faith, trust, and obedience. This is what God has been showing me so far this year.
Currently I am an english teacher living in South Korea. Before coming, I was unsure since the friend that I was coming to visit came back early. Worry flooded my thoughts on what to do next but God opened my eyes and showed me that all I needed to do was seek his will. The day I realized this is the day the God’s glory has continuously shined in my life since I arrived, showing me his power and purpose. God took away my worries and gave me peace.
A beautiful ocean side temple in Korea.
So far I have been blessed to travel to six countries. Two of them were through missions trips and two were through volleyball. You see, I thought I was called to spread God through my gift in volleyball but we serve a big God who says that we don’t need to limit ourselves.
Dominican Republic
Liberia
These trips gave me a heart to serve and be used through God to bring hope, love, and light to their countries. The interesting part of a mission trip is that you go there with the mindset that you are going to help change them, although once you arrive you realize that they are the ones that help change you! Coming from a first world country you feel like they have so little, but yet they have so much joy and light that is beyond this earth. God says, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
I was led to the world race through attending a bible study that a world race leader happened to be joining that day! I became glued to every word she said as soon as she started talking about the race. Immediately after she finished, my heart smiled first at the fact that there was a ministry out there so beautiful spreading the gospel around the world, and second that this is the journey that I had been waiting for all my life.
God calls us to be a paintbrush to fulfill his masterpiece, and this is the passion that he has given me for missions. It is God’s strength in me that helped me become the woman I am today. It is Jesus suffering that reminds me that we can make it through any trial and I want to share that with others. It is his never ending light that shines in darkness and gives us hope to accomplish anything. God has blessed me with passion to want to be used as the best tool possible to connect around the world as a body. I love Jesus so much and I want the world to find that same love!
My desire for this trip is to be broken, because through brokeness comes transformation. I want my first world mentality that expects my food to be warm, or my phone to be brand new to fade away and for the comfort and contentment in the Lord to grow. Most importantly, I want us to take A walk on this journey together! This is not just my ministry but it is ours as a body. I am only an extended hand on the field but it is our walk together that makes impacts.
As this journey begins I would love for you to take a walk with me on this journey through prayer and support. I have a long way and I pray that we can fulfill this ministry together!
