It is my fourth day here at training camp and today is the last day we will be here. Tomorrow my team and i will be on our way flying to the beautiful Guatemala lands. Upon arriving we stayed the first night at a safe house. Kind of like a shelter. Our first activity was to walk around atlanta, Georgia and just talk to the people around us. It happened to be Dragoncon weekend where everyone is dressed up in costums and such. it was pretty much the most interesting thing i observed in a while. first i met these two men from brazil with my one teammate and we were just making casual...

     Hello  brothers and sisters in Christ! Welcome to my very first blog! These past couple of days have already been such an eye opener to me. And its not even a scratch on the surface to what god has in store for my team and I. When I arrived at the airport and found my team. Everyone was increadably nice and wanted to know more about me. I knew right then there this was going to be such a amazing trip! After everyone arrived to the airport my team and I rode a train (which was my first time) to the Safe House in Atlanta. When we arrived there we got to know each...

                  Getting off the plane in Atlanta, little did I know meeting fellow AIM'ers was just the beginning of an exceedingly adventurous night. Hauling heavy luggage across most of Atlanta was almost as unexpected as the destination of our arrival. The Atlanta Safehouse was home for night 1. The safe house, which normally  comforts, invites and reaches out to the homeless and poor of Atlanta, Georgia, was now housing 60-70 missionaries. When we thought that was exciting enough, the entirety of us broke up into teams and...

“It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ,…He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone.” Ephesians 1:11 (Msg)   Let me first start off by saying that this is not my plan, but His. Being back in Alabama with all my friends would definitely be a lot easier. I fought God for months about coming on this trip. I didn’t understand why God would want me to leave the life I had when I was already so...

The past four days of training have been a lot harder than I thought they would be. I, by no means, prepared myself mentally for the reality that I won't be coming home until December. I thought I knew what I was getting myself into, but I never realized how hard it would be. I have been feeling overwhelmed, homesick, and alone. I have a great team of 21 college students and two leaders who all have their own unique qualities and are all wonderful. But at the same time, I don't have that mom that can comfort me with a hug, or that best friend who I can talk about anything to. ...

                                   I’m sitting on my 3-storey bunk bed enjoying the cool, soft breezed, Georgian rain. I am in love with this weather. After a season of heat and humidity, this is just exactly what I need.             Seeing, hearing the drops of rain bring so much comfort to me during this training. Not that it was so taxing or hard, but this rain is such a glimpse of God being such a good father. He really cares about...