Once upon a time, there lived a shy, little girl in Southern Oregon. Her name was Jessica. While growing up with eight siblings, Jessica learned all the basics of life–how to make mud pies, how to swim in the irrigation ditch, how to build tree forts, how to navigate down a hill on a sled without hitting trees, etc etc. Life was rather adventurous for this wee little girl.
Jessica found great joy in helping people. From a young age, she wanted to be a paramedic and to make a difference in peoples’ lives while riding the adrenaline rush. Deep down, however, she had a calling to travel–to go the ends of the earth, to help the lost, the broken, the hurting; to minister God’s love and to share with those that have so little.
Over the years, this desire grew strong in Jessica’s heart. She became a paramedic at a young age and enjoyed many years of emergency life. Many doors of opportunity opened for Jessica, taking her around the world to assist in medical/dental clinics with Hand of Hope ministries and training new paramedics in Trinidad with GMR. With each trip, her desire to work in the mission field and to live outside her comfort zone grew greatly.
She wants to go where no others want to go, to live among God’s children around the world, to be a hand to those in need.
So here we are–age 24, with a calling to go and a passport with many empty pages, we begin this journey of the World Race.
