I grew up in a Christian household with my parents, an older sister, and 3 younger brothers. I attended church every Sunday morning, and as well on Wednesdays, but only going through the motions. When I was 10 I became sexual assaulted by someone I thought that I could trust no matter what and that filled me with anger, made me become more confused, and most of all fear crept in my life. Even though I professed my salvation at age 16 at a beach retreat, I never grew to have a close relationship with God. I considered myself a stagnant Christian, even though I professed to love God, but I never bore the fruit of the Lord. Around my sophomore year, my parents devotion to the church became lax and eventually we stopped going pretty much altogether. At this point I started to go my own way, obsessed with the lie that my boyfriend was my everything and my escape. After 5 years and a few dysfunctional abusive relationships God convicted me to make a radical change.
God brought me to a point of realization that if I continued down that path, I would live a pointless and unfulfilled life. So one day I was at work and googled best mission trips for 2016 and came across The World Race through Adventures in Missions. I could no longer ignore my calling anymore, all I could do was obey, so within a week I filled out my application, got approved, and told my boyfriend, I was living with at the time, that I would be moving because we weren’t living the right lifestyle and I would be leaving the country on a mission trip this October for 11 months to 11 countries.
We will be able to support ministries already rooted from around the world. My mission is not only to help aid the orphans, the hungry, the sick, the broken hearted, or the countless victims of human trafficking; but to be completely broken and forever changed for the lord. With that I want to share with you one of, if not the most heartfelt verses to me.
Luke 9:23-24
“If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.”
I am taking up my cross and light for Christ and take it wherever I am to be guided by The Holy Spirit and making my first footprints in this world as a missionary.
Feel free to call or email me with my contacts listed below with any questions or prayer request and if God has put it on your heart to bless me with support you can click the following links to begin Support Me! https://www.gofundme.com/hannahchappell
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Yours in Christ,
Hannah Chappell
