Before this trip I would wake up every day and pray that God would radically change me from the person who I was to the person who He needs me to be in my everyday life and walk with Him.      Training camp has given me the opportunity to surrender my old self and let go of who I was so that I can become the person who Good needs me to be. I let go of everything that has held me back from being the completely sold out Godly woman He has created me to be.      Last night God spoke to me through other people and I had the chance to hear God’s voice through others....

    Before coming on the trip my heart was hardened. My community was drifting and my life was a blur of change. Rather than pressing into the Lord for comfort and hope I chose to press into worldly things. I knew the Lord had something big for me in asking me to come on this trip but I had no idea how quickly He would act.     Coming in I was appathetic and maybe even a little bittter toward my relationship with the Lord. I naively though I could hold onto my own stubborn and selfish desires. It's crazy how fast the Lord can act when He wants to. In the matter...

This week has been so good and rewarding. For many of us here worship has been a new experience. I am losing my voice from all the shouting and singing. It is so free and awesome.  We have not been learning much about Kenya specifically, so I am really excited to get there and finally experince it for myself.  For the past few weeks I have been workin on surrendering to God all of my fears and anxieties, and completely trusting and finding total peace in Him. I got so much help and encouragement these past few days surrenduring those fears that I was holding on to. One of my...

Hello from Georgia!     First off I'd like to go ahead and apologize for any incorrect grammar or confusing sentences that are surely to follow in the next two months. As a math major I wouldn't say that writing is my best skill, that and the fact that I am constantly told that I write the way I talk. Personally, I take the latter as a compliment seeing as though it allows my readers to see who I am through my writing; my professors, however, don't always agree.      With that said, we have been at training camp for four days and I can already tell God...

Though some of you have heard about how everything is going on Facebook, I just wanted to touch base with you guys before we head out tomorrow to continue this already perfect journey. I have been at Toccoa Falls College about two hours away from Atlanta Georgia where I flew into. These 4 days have been extremely challenging, rewarding, and already life changing.   First off, the worship here is unlike anything I have ever experienced and I wish every place I went felt like this! The energy, hundreds of prayers flooding the chapel: AMAZING. We have done some incredible little exercises...

I am sitting at the airport in Atlanta, waiting to fly out for my new home for four months, Kijabe, Kenya.   A sense of apprehension is setting over me, not quite enough to affect me, but, a degree of it nonetheless.   The Lord did tremendously powerful things the last few days at training camp. People were encouraged, renewed, comforted, and, constantly reminded of how much they are loved, how much they are meant to be here, to be used by God during the coming months. Truth was spoken, again and again, over the trip participants, myself included. Experiences that were...