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FOR YOUR GLORY

I am so increadibly passionate about glorifying God and just furthering his kingdom! It is such a beautiful thing. This year I will be returning to Colombia, South America and God is working in my heart a lot. I KNOW that God had this second trip in his plan from the start. The passion that he has embeded in my heart for Colombia is literally indescribable. After going last year, I learned so much about the culture and the people and I learned what an out of country mission trip really felt like, and that is when I decided that I am going to devote my life to serving God and others through mission trips. I had felt God knocking on my heart and calling me to overseas but I let fear and other things get in the way. Then I just surrendered and gave my all to God. So like I said, this has pretty much become a passion of mine. The three places that I am just.. blown away by are Africa, Colombia, and Cambodia. So I am blessed to be able to go back to Colombia and use the knowledge and experience that I have gained this past year to reach the needs of those who live there. God is doing so much to prepare me for this trip. See, I found that I was distracted by earthly things.. like, money, or my job, or my car, so on - so forth. I even found myself distracted from God because so some of my relationships. So as far as the whole earthly posessions, I didn't know how to deal with it. So I decided that the best thing was to use my posessions to help others around me! It has been awesome because I have just been able to serve like CRAZY! It is beautiful. And as for relationships, I had to step up and take the initiative to end one friendship because it was really just hurting me so much and I was trying to just uplift this friend on my own but now I have been reminded that only God can provide the true and eternal strength that we need so I have to leave things in his hands because he is the only one who can water the seeds that we plant in the heart of others. But yeah, so this is just heavy on my heart. I dont really know what else to talk about. I am hoping when we go to Colombia that I can talk to to Darren (our guide) about getting even more plugged in with YWAM than I already am. and that is it for now I guess.

God, kindle in me the desire to go anywhere, at anytime, at any cost. To do anything to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.