Thursday night, our three Atlanta teams along with Caz journeyed to Indian Springs, GA for a solitude retreat. We left our cell phones, our ipods and our books behind to fully venture into creation and the silence and solitude of God. I was so thrilled because I have really been missing the beauty and peace of the woods, which I so readily found at home and school in the mountains of NC. Caz opened the retreat by talking about how …
We have made it through our second “normal” week of Mission Year. It is nice to finally have a routine and to have a rhythm now. South Atlanta is really beginning to feel like home, and I’m meeting amazing people daily. I will walk you through what a typical week looks like for me and update you on some things that happened each day. Saturday Saturday is our neighborhood outreach day. This is the day where we go out into …
Not too long ago, I felt that Mission Year would never begin and now I can’t believe that a month has already passed! So much has happened since I arrived in Atlanta so I will try to give you some highlights from my time without writing a novel. Week 1: Team Captain training This year Atlanta has three teams and each team has a new Mission Year participant serving as team captain. I am team captain for the South Atlanta …
Grace and Peace, There is just one week until my departure date for Atlanta and I am blown away at how quickly time has passed. A lot has occurred since my acceptance to Mission Year so I will bring you up to date on what’s happened. The first major change was being moved from Camden, NJ to Atlanta, GA. Despite my initial disappointment and frustration, God has worked in my heart and I could not be more excited to spend …
Let me go ahead and admit. . .I am a musical theatre fanatic. There’s just something about characters expressing themselves through song and dance that gets me every time! One of my all time favorite musicals is the Disney film “Newsies”. The movie is based on the true story of the Newsboys strike of 1899 in New York City. This was a youth-led campaign in which the newsboys forced Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst to change the way they …
$12,000. . .I did a double take the first time I saw that number. Even after accepting my mission year invitation, I am still not sure I can raise that amount. I know God will provide everything I need this coming year, including the financial support. It just seems incredibly daunting. I am feeling a little overwhelmed now because I have started throwing out ideas for fundraising, and am getting little to no response so far. I understand that the …
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that question over the past 4 1/2 years I would already have enough money to pay back my student loans! Up until last month I did not have an answer to that question. It becomes a real nuisance when you are graduating and still don’t have an answer. People give you strange looks and question what the heck you’ve been doing all those years at school. Now I am happy …
