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...

  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...

Growing up in an environment that was always on the go, it was very challenging to come to a completely different pace of life. The earth and the people in it seemed to slow down. As the team and I walked through the markets we would wave to the people who lived there and they got so excited to see us and that we took the time to greet and smile at them. It was so different from what I was used to because at home people are too busy to stop and say hello. The entire atmosphere is unlike any other I’m used to. Since the pace is slower it allows you to stop and look around and...