Greetings World

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog! As many of you know, I’m living in Phoenix and attending Grand Canyon University. These days, in addition to my studies, I’m leading YoungLife and spending time volunteering with families at New Life Pregnancy Center – working with kids and mothers through parenting classes, bible studies, and counseling sessions. Back in August, I heard of an opportunity to help families, kids and widows over 10,000 miles away! I could not be more excited! For two weeks, I will be participating in daily outreach with the hopes of showing Jesus’ love and building relationships within the community of Malawi, Africa. I will be spending my time with an organization called African Bible College through the program Project Take Love. During this short -term missions trip, my group of about 40 GCU students will be staying in guest huts on the college campus. Our work will include medical outreach, orphan care, carpentry,  farming, teaching in schools, ministering to widows and community development. The best part is I’ll be given daily opportunities to hang out with precious African children! These kids live a much tougher life than we are accustomed to and even simple things such as love and affection are unusual. I am excited about all the positive things our project will do for them and just as excited about what this experience will do for us. I have even heard rumors of last years trip eating goat meat soup – while I’m not too sure I’m excited about that, I am looking forward to learning about their cultures and customs.

I can’t describe how happy I am to be a part of this ministry and would like to invite all of my readers to join my team:

 I would like to ask you to pray – pray for me, pray for my team, pray for the people of Malawi, and pray for our opportunities to share Christ with them.

I would like to ask you for financial support. The total cost of this trip is $3200 and as a full-time student I won’t be able to reach the April deadline by myself.

I am immensely thankful for your visit to my site and can’t wait to share this process with you!