My Calling to Missions

Woohoo! Next week I'm going to Ecuador for a month! I'm so excited! I've had a couple people ask me to post while I'm gone, so I figured I would start a beautiful blog about what I'm doing right before hand and also during and how I feel about my calling while I'm there. So, today I went to youth group, only one more youth group meeting before I'm gone. I have such mixed emotions about going, I'm super excited but I'm so nervous to be gone for a whole month! This next week I figured I would kind of just go over my calling, how I feel and all of those kinds of things. Today I'm going to talk about my call into missions and how I've dealt with it.

I was called to missions when I was 5 years old. For a few years I was really excited about my calling and then it was just kind of a fact of life. Then from the time I was about 9-12 I just decided God hadn't called me into missons and I was able to do anything I wanted as a career. When I was 12 I went to Ukraine on a Work and Witness trip with my dad and that's where I really knew that I was called to missions. Well, although being called by God is an amazing honor, the reason he has to call people is they are also very hard callings. So from the time I was about 12 until January of 2010 I really struggled through the fact that I was never going to get rich, and I would be lucky if I even had a washer machine. Then in January I completely turned my life over to God and told Him that if missions was really what I was called to then I needed a clear sign. I believe that if you are really seeking God he will never leave you wondering, and about a week after I asked God for a sign the NYI president at my church gave me an application for a trip to Guatemala for teens called into missions. I applied, and within a month I was accepted to go. That's where I really solidified the fact that God had set me apart for something amazing. Not that I haven't had times where I struggled with my calling since then, but now I know that God will be there with his loving embrace the entire time.
I found my life verse this last year and I want to share it with you. It's Ephesians 6:19 and it says "Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel,"
I pray that God will bless you so that you will be able to fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel.