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Adventure is Out There Pt. 1

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - Macedonia

Wow, where do I start? I have been gone for almost two weeks now. My adventure began in the early morning “light” of 5 am September 1st. My family groggily waved me goodbye as my dad and I headed towards downtown Dallas and the first of many airports on my trip to Skopje. Once we got there, my dad was allowed to come through security with me (thank you nice ticket lady!) and we had breakfast together one last time (chick-fil-a chicken minis, what else?). My dad was also able to get hold of my brother William all the way in China, so I got a nice proper goodbye from him too....

Becoming Bold

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - Macedonia

Bold. The literal definition according to the dictionary is “showing an ability to take risks; confident and courageous.” But what does it mean to be spiritually bold? Before leaving for this trip I would have told you that spiritual boldness means stepping out of your comfort zone, and duh I could totally do that. Jesus is my strength, am I right? Well yes, of course, I would never say that He wasn’t; but what I will question is my ability to trust that I have the authority to step out in boldness because of what HE has given me. Until we got to...

Comfort Zone

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - India

Comfort zone. A phrase so comfortable to say. So easy to live out. For most of my life, I have camped out in the comfort zone . I stuck to what I knew and focused on what I was good at. I didn’t take risks. But all of that changed for me last September. The beginning of my senior year. The end of an era. I was scared. Uncertain of what my future held. I prayed and prayed for God to show me the plans he had for me and finally he led me to them. Or so I thought . I came across adventures in Missions and their program “gap year”. Gap year is a 9 month missions trip to 5...

Full Circle Moment

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - India

I was very privileged to grow up in a Christian home. Growing up, my parents were always looking for Christian movies for my siblings and me to watch. When I was about 10 years old, they bought a movie called “Beyond the Next Mountain”. The movie is about a young boy in India who was from a small village in the mountains. When his father was young, a Welsh missionary visited their village and the boy’s father was one of the missionary’s first converts. Since there was no Bible in the tribes language, the boy’s father decided to send his son to the...

Fully Formed in Love!

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - India

This particular morning I was bothered by the feelings I was perceiving by the team. I felt their worry, but as I felt it I thought they were worried about me speaking. “Do they think I’m worried?” The feelings were heavy and I didn’t know what to do with it. Many asked if I was ready for the message this morning. I couldn’t understand the question because I didn’t feel like I was giving off any juju that would speak of fear and worry. We went back down to the college where we are living and I changed my clothes, out on my make up, and stepped out to go...

Moving Bricks

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - India

For our first day officially working, we were scheduled to do construction! Knowing me, I’m the laziest person in America and the best person to complain on everything! But when we got to the site to begin our job we were told to move a pile of bricks to the second level of a new building being built….. My eyes got so big knowing that I don’t do manual labor. But I knew that I came to India to serve, so I sucked it up in my heart! As we began to move the blocks we didn’t make a plan and started to move on our own. We moved several bricks down the hill and up the...

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