The Dream| A Beginning
Like most little girls I dreamed of living a life of big adventures and doing grand things in this world. And like most little girls I wanted to travel. Even if only for a short while. I would make plans to run away. To stow away and go across the seas. Back pack and live abroad in European countries; maybe even stay in France long term. It was fueled by reading books, playing video games and watching movies. I thought that it would only ever be a dream. In ninth grade I moved in with my grandparents and they brought me to church every Sunday. Soon my love for God and his church grew and melded with my dream of traveling! I began to dream of moving from church to church, host family to host family, serving and investing into the community for a season. I loved the idea of making my way through the bible belt sharing the gospel with folks who's lives crossed with mine for a moment. And greater yet, I wanted to witness to my brothers and sisters; to minister to those already in the church.
Like most little girls I dreamed of living a life of big adventures and doing grand things in this world. And like most little girls I wanted to travel. Even if only for a short while. I would make plans to run away. To stow away and go across the seas. Back pack and live abroad in European countries; maybe even stay in France long term. It was fueled by reading books, playing video games and watching movies. I thought that it would only ever be a dream. In ninth grade I moved in with my grandparents and they brought me to church every Sunday. Soon my love for God and his church grew and melded with my dream of traveling! I began to dream of moving from church to church, host family to host family, serving and investing into the community for a season. I loved the idea of making my way through the bible belt sharing the gospel with folks who's lives crossed with mine for a moment. And greater yet, I wanted to witness to my brothers and sisters; to minister to those already in the church.
God was so much more alive than my church knew or lived and it broke my heart to see believers every week without a true treasuring passion for God in their lives! Since that seed of an idea was planted it has grown slowly over the last few years. My spiritual gifting deepened and so did my faith. As my passion for God's people and the church became more and more defined I longed to go and start achieving this ministry dream but instead of going on that journey I went to college to be a pastor; that is no longer what I will pursue educationally. As life would have it I am taking time off from schooling (paying off my loan) and since ending my last semester of school the urge to leave and to travel has only become more prominent. I've hungered for a chance to go anywhere. In the last year I've had 4 chances to go to Joplin, MO. After meeting a roaming, traveling homeless kid named Kaleb that yearning increased again!
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