Hey friends!
My name is Kalie Rutherford. I am a 20 year old Sophomore at Troy University. I am pursuing my BSN in nursing to be a pediatric nurse. I eventually want to be a traveling nurse after I’ve been out of college for a couple of years. I love the Lord and His people. I also love serving on the dream team at Troy Hangout on campus and co-leading a Freedom small group. I am a member of Church of the Highlands. I also am involved in Greek life on campus at my school; I am an Alpha Delta Pi sister. I love my sisterhood and our Christian values. I have gotten some of my biggest blessings from my sisterhood. I love Jesus time and fellow shipping with my friends and spending time with family. I have a sweet little Yorkie named Emma that I love with my whole heart. God has put a huge desire in my heart to serve Him and His people and ministering to young women and children. Through that desire He has called me to mission and put that desire to serve and reach His people through missions as well.
God placed a desire for missions in my heart in early high school. Needless to say I never really pursued that desire. After leaving a toxic relationship after I graduated high school I moved off to college and pursued anything that I thought would fill the God sized hole in my heart. After a year full of distraction and heartbreak I found myself on my knees begging God to take over my life and I vowed that I would live everyday for the rest of my life to glorify Him and do whatever He would have me do. I started going to Troy Hangout and I got in a small group called Freedom (that I am now co leading this semester). I kept pursuing God through the highs and the many lows that I endured that fall. At the end of the semester I attended Freedom conference and God continued to shake up my world. After a refreshing weekend in His presence, I decided I wanted to get re-baptized to represent my walk with the Lord in this new season of my life.
Fast forward to a February 5th, I was listening to a podcast called “Girls Night” by Stephanie May Wilson. She began talking about the World Race and mentioned that she had a promo code that waved the application fee. I felt there was no harm in checking it out, so I began the application process which ended up putting me in a super vulnerable position as I honestly filled out all of the questions it entailed. I think God was grinning in that moment because my word from God for the year is “transparency”. Well throughout the application and interviews I definitely had to be just that. The following Wednesday at Troy Hangout (a ministry we have through Church of the Highlands on Troy’s campus that I get to serve on) I so clearly heard God speak to me during praise in worship that sent chills from head to toe. I heard him say that it will come to pass – “You will go to Ecuador and share your testimony.”
I had an amazing interview and continued to pray. A week later I was reading my Bible and came across scripture that I had highlighted a few years ago (Exodus 3:10-12)
10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”
God was speaking to Moses that He was sending him to bring His people (the Israelites) out of Egypt, but Moses felt like he was unqualified. He said to God “Who am I that I should go?” I instantly related. Who am I that God is sending me to Ecuador? But in the following verse God once again spoke so clearly with affirmation His calling for me “I will be with you…and you will worship me”.
Moses’s Egypt is my Ecuador.
He is sending me.
Perhaps this is the moment for which I have been created.
-Esther 4:14
Blessings xoxo,
Kalie
