Last May, at training camp, when it came
down to the wire in team choices, AIM staff asked me if I could pick one person
to be with for the year who would it be. I said Jennifer Mitchell. We had only
been together a few days, and we were not even that close, but something inside
of me just made me say her name. A day later teams were announced, and we were
placed on the same team.
Three months into the race team changes were made. I was
heart broken at the split of our team, but Jennifer and I were not separated.
The three other girls on my team got placed on other teams, but Jennifer stayed
with me. I knew that I needed to be with Jennifer in order to become closer to
the woman God wanted me to be.
In Thailand, a month where our ministries were individually
prayed into, and not organized by team, Jennifer and I still ended up on the
same team for the month.
together. We have slept next to each other, worked together, ate together,
played together, you name it and we have done it…together.
amazing people I have ever known. She is a mighty woman of God with a high
calling on her life. She is hungry and thirsty for God. She is sold out 100%
and will not relent or back down. She is fierce, passionate, available and
seeking. She is a woman of integrity, purity, humility, worship, prayer,
encouragement, wisdom, knowledge, surrender, and deep love for her Father.
She loves the Middle East, and God has given her a huge
heart for Muslims.
She is generous and giving and sacrifices for the ones she
loves. One time she gave our teammate Lindsay her computer when she got separated from
us for a month. She gave me her bomb Nikon to take to Zanzibar so my pictures
could be really great. She has made it clear, what’s hers is ours.
She is fun and hilarious. We laugh to the point of tears and
stomach aches.
She is crazy smart with computers, I don’t know how she
knows so much, but she always there to solve my problems.
Not much stresses me out, but one thing that does is when it
comes time to pack all of my things in my pack when we move from one country to
the next. Jennifer, out of her love for me and bomb organizational skills,
often packs my bag just so I don’t have to worry about it.
She is the craftiest person I have ever known, and she is
incredible with a needle and thread…she has made several repairs to my ripped
up clothing.
This girl can preach like I have never heard a woman preach
before. The Spirit has used her mouth to touch hundreds of people, me included.
Sensitive and aware of my heart for animals, she always comes around me and reassures me in the many instances I have witnessed hurting animals.
She has held me as I balled in her arms.
She has wiped my tears and nose with the clothes on her
back.
all about, and through that has encouraged me to go after my dreams and my
calling.
We go on bike rides in the pouring rain.
We sit on the rooftops and gaze at the stars.
We have dance parties and photo shoots.
We explore.
hold hands, we rebuke the devil, we prophesy, we worship.
hand, speaking life and praying for one another as we walked the streets.
