Why am I doing this? My college, Southern, is super big into student missions. We have student mission vespers, there is a missions Bible group and club you can join and the idea of missions has always been around me my past three years there. I started praying about being a student missionary my freshman year of college but never felt impressed to go beyond praying about it.
Last summer, the majority of my camp friends were returning student missionaries and after talking to one of them about her experience serving in the islands, I decided to start praying about the possibility of student missions again. There were never any huge signs that God gave to prompt me towards serving Him this year but I decided that if it was what God wanted, I would apply to be a missionary and if God didn't have that in His plan then He would stop me in my tracks. There have been obstacles, but God has worked things out and here I am - about to go to South America.
Familia Feliz is an orphanage that I will be serving at this year. From the little amount of information that I know about it, I will be a house mom, a teacher, probably a cook (Hopefully I'll be able to eventually make edible food and not burn everything), possibly cut the grass with a machete and anything and everything else in between - whatever needs to be done.
So here I am, 12 days before my departure and strongly dependent on God for my fund raising and His guidance because I have no clue what I am getting myself into. I am nervous, clueless but really excited for this journey that God is preparing me for.
Warning: My blog posts will most likely be very random and sometimes I am too sassy for my own good, but that's just me and I'd love for you to follow along with me on this crazy journey that I'm about to start.
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