We were asked to write a blog about how we were called to this mission trip…..Here is my story…
All I can say is that I knew I wanted to do something similar to this I just did not quite know what that was. I knew I wanted to serve people and live life as though it isn’t mine, I just wasn’t sure of the avenue God was going to take me or maybe which one he wanted for me rather. I long to see life, music, people, community, christianity, etc played out in other cultures, other places. I want to sit down with people of other parts of the world and talk life with them. I want to know what it truly does mean to follow Jesus & serve for the only purpose worth serving.
Does that mean to drop all of our comfortable settings, lifestyles, decisions, and run away? Or does that mean just serve sacrificially and selflessly? I want to know that I did not waste my time. I talk of time as if there is not enough when maybe the reality is that there is plenty to go around but we squander it. I just kept feeling as though my life wasn’t what I wanted. College is a wonderful opportunity and necessary but what about those of us who began to think college is wonderful but not enough? Why do we have to wait to graduate? Or wait to have a career? But at the same time before we begin a family? Why is the answer always to wAiT rather than, “Lyndsie, life is short, go and serve and see the world.” Why is there always something holding us back? Why does going across the country for 11 months, selling your car, leaving your comfort zone, saying bye to your phone and classes, have to be a unsettling idea? I just started to ask myself all of these questions and wondered why…..I want to know I spent my time wisely and answered God’s calling to Lyndsie’s life. I feel like God is calling me to do this and I also believe he has shown me that daily. I heard about the race through a friend, looked into it, pondered it, and before I knew it was signed up and accepted. I long to see what God has in store for me, us, individually, and as a team. I long to serve him and love on the different people. I pray that he is continually transforming me now and preparing me for whatever he allows me to be a part of. The many aspects of this opportunity are incredible and exciting. I can only hope and pray that I stay focused on Him and that he is involved in everything. 
