Adventures in Missions

& so it is.

September 5, 2011
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My feet have reached a new surface. Slowly but surely I have become well aquainted with the deep orange of Georgia's saturated soil. There is a consistant pressing on every part of my body from the thick air & heat surrounding us. Our first night we slept on the floor of a shelter welcoming in the change that we can no longer delay. Our lives will be changed. When we return home we will be different people. It is a constant thought on my mind to remember what one of our leaders has said to us…. We will come home with different eyes. Behind them will be responsibility...

One More Day!

September 5, 2011
Adventures
Guatemala

The day I left for training camp I found a card that my dad had snuck into my backpack. On the front of the card was a picture of a little girl pushing a big rock with all her might, a rock that clearly could not be easily moved, especially by a child as small as her. He wrote inside that over these next four months in Guatemala I will probably feel like that little girl often. He encouraged me that even when I feel like the task I am striving to accomplish is impossible, it is not because God is with me, and he is ultimately my strength. When I read that card for the first time I knew that...

Sues’day!!

September 5, 2011
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September 3rd, 2011 Well, my journey to Cambodia has begun! I flew out last Friday (VERY early in the morning) to Atlanta where I met my awesome team that I get to work with for the remainder of the trip. The Cambodia team is made up of all women who are 18-22 years old, from all over the U.S. and Canada. Pretty sweet how God has chosen to bring people with all sorts of different stories together, in one place, with a purpose. Once all of our team members arrived to the airport, our leaders sent us out on our first adventure—navigating our way through Atlanta to a...

Training Camp!!

September 5, 2011
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Well training camp has definitely been a growing experience. I have honestly wondered what God has got me into. haha I know this trip is going to grow me leaps and bounds beyond any expectations I might have. I am really learning how to trust God more and more each day and rely on him to keep me strong. I am excited for God to change not only my life but the lives of many trafficked women. God has blessed me with such an amazing team of thirteen women. Its like he hand picked each one of us to perfectly mold together. I know with God and our 14 hearts combining...

Training to Restore

September 5, 2011
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Training camp is coming to a close. It’s mid-afternoon on the day before we fly out! Woohooooooo! While at training camp, we’ve received cultural briefings about the “do’s and don’t do’s” of Cambodia, had some wonderful worship sessions and speakers who have reminded me of my passion for justice and the power of God, spent time growing closer as a team, discussed expectations, and many other things. We’ve also been roughing it: sleeping in a cabin with one little light that runs on a generator, porta-potties, taking cold...

Transformation

September 5, 2011
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And so it begins! My being is a blend of emotion-gratitude most prominent. I signed up for this journey knowing a change would be made. A change not only in the lives of the girls we will be reaching, but a change in myself. That change has began to take place! Training camp is nothing as I expected; I had no idea we would be walking the streets of Atlanta, looking for stories to be shared, no idea we'd have a dance off between teams (so fun), and no idea there would be a surrender hike, giving us opportunity to release that which was holding us back. I honestly had no idea what to...

Uncomfortable Surrender

September 5, 2011
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September 2nd was uncomfortable. Although I knew it was going to be uncomfortable I did not think that I would become so overwhelmingly uncomfortable, that I would start to question why I was here. All I could think was that this was not what I expected and this was not what I signed up for….Then I realized, oh wait yes you did. As hard as the past few days have been, I feel that the trial I have been going through got me to the point where I was ready to surrender. There are a few things that occured to bring me to this point of surrender but yesterday was the...

Washed and Renewed to Serve a Holy God!

September 5, 2011
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Thank you for logging on to read my first blog post! I am so excited about my journey to go witness for four months to the women and children of Cambodia who have been forced/trapped into a lifestyle of sex trafficking. A little about myself for you who do not know me, I was born and raised in Oxford MS, where I attended Oxford High until I was kicked out my senior year. At that point in my life, I was totally lost and darkened in my understanding of who God was and who I could be in him. Back then I was engulfed in sexual immorality, hate/fights, depression, alcohol, drugs… etc....

Welcome to Training Camp!

September 5, 2011
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Wecome to training camp! Let me tell you about the crazy past few days we’ve been having… Our adventure started with a “Super Fun Envelope #1” leading us on a journey through Atlanta public transit and onto the streets where we had to lug our bags to Safehouse. Safehouse is a homeless shelter in downtown Atlanta that provides so much more than just a place to sleep or food to eat. They offer help and respect and hope for the people who walk through their door. On our first night together, our team walked throughout downtown Atlanta to pray over the people and the...

Unified

September 5, 2011
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Guatemala

The past four days have been mind-opening for all of us. Constant support through out and worship have been a big part as well as the super fun activities. Some of the super fun activities included dance-offs as well as painting. We have been learning how to be unified through Christ as a team as brothers and sisters. It has been wonderful to get a chance to make new friendships that could last like a lifetime. Everyone is genuinly kind and caring. I couldn't ask for a better team. The gifts God has given everyone here is amazing and the staff is incredible. So many God-loving people...

Still Trying to Get There

September 5, 2011
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Guatemala

By this time tomorrow, I’ll be in another country. I still can’t wrap my mind around that. Training camp has been pretty crazy, but I feel like our team has meshed together really well. The first day in Atlanta, after riding the Marta, we arrived in a place called the SafeHouse. They’re an organization that provides ministries for the homeless and that’s where we would be sleeping for the first night. Late that night, we were given the opportunity to go out onto the streets and just talk to people. We walked a...

Taking a leap of faith

September 5, 2011
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Guatemala

It is my fourth day here at training camp and today is the last day we will be here. Tomorrow my team and i will be on our way flying to the beautiful Guatemala lands. Upon arriving we stayed the first night at a safe house. Kind of like a shelter. Our first activity was to walk around atlanta, Georgia and just talk to the people around us. It happened to be Dragoncon weekend where everyone is dressed up in costums and such. it was pretty much the most interesting thing i observed in a while. first i met these two men from brazil with my one teammate and we were just making casual...

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