adventures

Hello blogger world. I've been reading a few of my friend's blogs, soaking up their wisdom and marveling at their adventures. I just recently got news that I would soon be embarking on my own adventure...my FIRST MISSION TRIP to the beautiful country of Haiti. This will be the first time I use a passport, the first time I'm on an airplane for a significant amount of time, and the first time I am able to see the world outside of the US. I am beyond estatic and slightly terrified at the same time.

Let me give you some background information...missions have been on my heart since high school. I had asked my parents numerous times to please let me out of the country and the answer was always no. At that point in my walk with Jesus, I knew I couldn't go against my parents wishes, so I brushed it off and prayed even harder for God to send me. Sophomore year of college, the passion intensified and I was given the oppurtunity to work at an amazing summer camp called YouthFront, south of KC in a little town called LaCygne. Not out of the country but still a mission. This was the place were my relationship with Chirst started at the always awkward age of 13. This place is where the holy spirit works. It's the most stinkin' awesome camp you'll ever experience. God placed me as a Cabin leader for jr.high and high school girls. There I learned what it really meant to walk with sisters and brothers in pain and so in need of Jesus' love. God also taught me that I am his first and foremost and that his timing is always the right own. God worked a miracle and finally quieted my mother's heart (he's still working on the father's), giving me permission to apply to a mission trip with my college church in October. I filled out the papers, said a quick prayer, and handed it to the church secretary.

Two months later, aka present day, I open an envelope and the first sentence reads, "Heidi, Welcome to Haiti!" I jump and scream for joy for a solid five minutes. Then I realize that this is real. God has real work planed for me and my team in a country so broken by disaster and disease. Real children of God who have no clean water or proper nutrition. So this is why I began this blog; because I am on an adventure too. Not just to Haiti, but here, at my university, my sorority house, my second home, to share the gracious love of Jesus. I am by no means the disciple Paul was, but I'm learning and digging for the knowledge and ways of the lord. He has my heart.

love, Heidi