In the hopes of telling you all my why and how I came to decide WorldRace Gap Year is for me I will be writing the story of how God told me GO.
So, I was 14 and sitting in church listening to a missionary. This was nothing special to me. I had grown up hearing from missionaries what seemed like all the time. This time was just a little bit different. I sat up straight and listened intently. As this missionary spoke God said this is it this is what you were created for, missions. It scared me. I felt insecure and afraid so I hid from it.
That summer I went to the beach on a vacation. I hate the beach so my mom bought me books to make up for the trip. She bought me Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis. I devoured that book. I remember reading the part about her wanting to take a gap year and God whispered to my heart you should take one too. I was laying in bed it was close to two in the morning and I just cried. How would I take a gap year? What does this even mean?
I had none of the answers and just lots of questions. I started to look into gap years and I knew I needed to go on a mission trip the next summer to see what it would be like. Only, the church I was attending had no mission trips for youth, so I hit a wall and thought about quitting.
I will be posting part two in the next couple days!!!!!!
Thanks for reading!!!!!
