I've heard it said that people have a heart connection with the first place they go on outreach. That's why there are so many M-workers in Latin America. This is also why we like to take people on outreach trips to less reached places...
My first outreach trip was 10 years ago. I and 11 other high school girls spent 3 weeks in Arad, Romania ministering to orphans and gypsy's - one of the lower castes of India who had migrated up to Romania.. The trip solidified my desire to work with orphans and do full-time M-work...and I ended up being focused on India.
Beyond that, I was inspired by our hosts, Jen & Betsy. Jen is now in Kenya, and Betsy is in Alabama, so I got to see her today :)
Betsy & Jen are two of the reason that I have been doing what I have been doing these past few years - living in Idaho, and traveling in India on my own. After seeing these women fearlessly serving God overseas, I said, "if they can do it, I can too."
Before my trip to Romania, my plan was: college, marriage, and then being a full-time M-working family.
I still remember that night in Romania, when God messed up my plans - challenging me to be willing to go, even if I wasn't married. That night, with many tears, I decided I would choose to follow God's call on my life, even if that meant I would never get married.
The following summer, I was on another outreach trip in Romania. At a church we visited, I was prayed for and the person prophesied (with Jen translating), that I would get married and my husband and I would be m-workers to many countries. Sweet!!!
None-the-less I decided I was not going to sit around in America waiting for a man to marry before following God's call on my life...besides I'd rather find a guy who is already involved in ministry, and one day notice each other and realize we're doing the same thing, why not save the world together :)
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