If you read the title and think to yourself, "Wait a minute! No, she's not!" Then, well, you'd be correct. I am currently not in Wales. I am currently sitting on my dorm room floor in the one stoplight town of Boiling Springs, NC. However, come June I will be.
When I arrived back to school from a mission trip to Guatemala with a group from school and after finally reviving my ridiculously dead phone, I was able to listen to several voicemails that had been left for me throughout the week on Saturday. There was one message I was particularly excited about. It was from the short-term missions coordinator from my church denomination's mission board, World Witness. He told me that he had some good news for and had a question he wanted to ask me. I had applied back in December to serve as a summer intern in Wales through World Witness, but as of leaving for my trip to Guatemala I had not received any confirmation that I had been accepted to serve this summer.
When I finally got the opportunity to return the call, I was beyond pleased with the news he gave me. He said that the good news was that I had been accepted to serve as an intern this summer, and the question he had for me was if I was 100% sure I would be going so he could go ahead and purchase my plane ticket. I said I was...and well now in less than 3 months I will be headed to Wales!!I cannot stop praising God for this awesome opportunity to share the love of Christ with the people of Wales. I am so excited about going!!
Here are some things you may be curious about concerning my traveling to Wales. I still don't have all the details, but this is what I know as of right now -
- While in Wales I will be serving alongside the World Witness missionary and another college intern. I will be doing a lot of relational ministry within churches in Wales, with an emphasis on children and youth ministry. I am going to love on the people God places in my life while in Wales and to show how awesome it is to have a relationship with Christ.
- I will be there for 2 months
- In July there will be around 80-90 high school/college students coming to serve for a week in Wales by doing different children and youth outreaches alongside different churches and towns.
As I stated above I am truly excited about this opportunity, which in some ways has surprised me. Now, it is okay to ask yourself, "How could she not be excited about the possibility of going to Wales?" But this past semester I have been swarmed with a feeling I have never known before. I am actually for the first time in my life been homesick. Since returning to school in January there has not been a day when I didn't wish I could just return back to Lake Placid. It's been a struggle wanting to be home, but at the same time knowing that I am supposed to be at school. I was able to go home in the last weekend in February; and though the weekend was so refreshing, I returned back to school still longing to be home. The following Friday after going home I was supposed to leave for Guatemala. I had been asking for prayer for several weeks for prayer that God would give me excitement about the trip. But when I woke up on Thursday morning I still wished I was going home for spring break instead. As I was getting ready in the morning I continued to pray that God would give me excitement and His joy for this trip. And slowly throughout the day my heart and attitude toward the trip began to change. By the time I was on the plane the next day I was skipping off of it because I could not wait to get to Guatemala. When I arrived to Agua Viva, the children's home my group was going to be working with, and met the kids, I could see a total transformation. God provided me with such joy that week through the kids and their joy and happiness. He reminded He gives me what I need when I need it...oh He's so awesome :)
So when I received the confirmation about Wales...I was filled with even more joy. I can't wait to see what God is going to do both in Wales as well as what He is doing currently in my life. He is such an awesome God :)
"Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are MINE!" Isaiah 43:1
Here in the Wales Summer 2008 video (it's from those who were on the week long mission trip(
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