Author: Adventures

It was nearly five years ago that God revealed one of the scariest things to me. It was like every other Sunday night; I was attending my church’s youth group. Our pastor was preaching on the great commission and encouraging missions. He played a few different videos made by different organizations whose goals were to take the Gospel near and far. Seems simple enough, right? But what I thought would be an ordinary Sunday, ended up changing my life. As these videos rolled, I found myself sobbing at the statistics, and the stories, and the faces. I felt burden weigh down my heart...

When I arrived at training camp at the beginning of the trip I absolutely loathed the scars that cover my arms. I had already paid $1,000 towards laser treatment. I knew that it would only lighten them and that the scars were so deep that there was no way to take them away completely. I would have to live with them forever. What I hated the most about my scars was that people always noticed them and it would continuously remind my of the hurt I had been dealing with three years ago.  A couple of days into the trip when my teammates had seen my scars one of them told me that they were the...