Last summer, I went to Arizona on a summer mission trip. I posted my newsletters on WordPress before I decided to put everything here on Wix. My summer in Toronto is already up, and I am excited to be reading through last summer's adventures again with you.
SUNDAY, June 4 TO SATURDAY, JUNE 10
Arizona or?
Some of you may already know this, but I was not planning on going on this trip. I felt I needed to do an internship, especially since I had just changed my major with just 2 years left to graduate. I was summer missions team leader for MC's BSU, and I was fine with that being my hand in BSU summer missions that year. Well, it was all fine until the very end of the fall semester. My church college group had some spots available to go to this conference called "Discern." It was for high school and college students discerning their own calls to ministry. The way that I got up from my seat and my legs started moving when the college pastor called for those interested in the retreat was so weird. My head was spinning, and I was just wondering why I had to be up there. One of the reasons I now know I was convicted then was that God wanted me in Arizona that summer. By the time I prayed and discerned that this was what God wanted me to do, it was the week of the summer missionaries' annual banquet that I was running. It was also way past the due date for applications. Many locations were already filled at that point. After contemplating several foreign locations, I did not quite feel right. I asked if there was a U.S. location available. One of the spots was Arizona, which happened to be the only spot that I remember being interested in when looking at the booklets for the first time back in the fall.
As for the internship concern, I am happily situated at a full-time job with the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board. It's crazy because I get to design the BSU summer missions materials, such as that booklet that I mentioned earlier. God works everything out, and it is simply our job to obey and be faithful!
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