After living in Atlanta for a year and hearing astonishing statistics on the incidences of sex trafficking and childhood prostitution, a friend and I decided that we should learn more and take time to raise awareness. For the entire month of July, we decided to wear One Dress and create a blog highlighting what was happening in Atlanta and what organizations and individuals were doing about it. The choice to wear One Dress the entire month stemmed from the reality …
Love is powerful. On a very simplistic level, being spoiled with love is what has gotten me where I am today. On a Saturday night in the late fall, I was sitting with my friend, Ken, as he counted some money. My mom calls, so I answer it and put her on speaker phone so Ken can hear her thick southern accent. My mom speaks kind words about how much she misses me, how happy she is I am having …
Photo credit: Jesse Therrien. I spent most of my time chatting with individuals who are interested in doing Mission Year. I get the opportunity to share about my experiences during and after Mission Year. Lately, I have had some conversations about our ‘fear of the unknown’ causing me to reflect on what I feared going into Mission Year and how those fears played out. My top fear going into Mission Year was that I would lose touch with relationships I …
A few nights ago I spent some time on the corner. The corner is a place in my neighborhood where lots of messy activity goes down. This is one of my favorite places to hang out because I get to hear what is really happening in the lives of my neighbors. This was the first time I had visited the corner in a while. I had been traveling a lot for work and not made time to visit. But with …
On my first recruiting trip for Mission Year I made this discovery: Things are beautiful if you love them. Leaving my inner city neighborhood in Atlanta to go on a 3 week recruiting trip to California was both exciting and scary. I quickly learned that Cali is very different from the South, where I have spent the majority of my life. My first days were spent in Malibu and Santa Barbara. Around me were huge mountains, the beach, magnificent palm …
