I believe that the first time I knew I was called to missions was in the winter of 2005. I was preparing to go on a missions trip to Mexico with my church Cross Of Glory, and God had given me a deep sense of peace with the trip. I had been making lists of all the things I wanted to be when I grew up, and after I decided to go on the trip, I realized there was nothing else that would quite measure up. The list I had made before suddenly seemed unimportant. As we got closer and closer to going on the missions trip, I felt such a deep sense of God calling me to long term missions.
More conformations came before my second cross-country missions trip to Peru. While God was preparing my heart for this trip, I was in a state of change in my everyday life. I was constantly trying to find my place to call HOME. Yes, I have a home, and a family, however, I felt like I needed to be somewhere else. I think this is something that God has blessed me with. It is the simple mindset that we are not “at home” in our daily lives, but that we should always be longing for things from above, and should not make ourselves “at home” on this earth. God has called each and every one of us to missions, some here in the U.S., and some people across the world. However, when I realized this, it helped me to see missions from a different perspective than before.
As I am a senior in High School, I am set with the objective of deciding where I will go in my life in the next year. This last summer, I had been searching for colleges, and more colleges, and more. I found a few colleges that I was interested in, however, I didn’t feel called anywhere. I felt very lost, and I was sick of feeling lost in a desert. One night in my living room, I fell on my face and began praying to God. I humbled myself before him, and told him that I didn’t care where I went, as long as it was with him. The very next day, as I was searching for schools again, I was reminded of the AIM missions trip I had just been on in Peru. I came to the AIM website, and my heart was ignited with a passion for missions. I knew that that is where God wanted me to be. Its amazing how God works through us, and in his own time.
