Ok I am a person who likes to jump right into it...so here is my story and how I was called to the mission field.

 

   Oh where to begin? I will start with last summer (summer of '08). It was right before the start of my senior year. I played softball for my highschool so I was trying to decide if I wanted to play ball in college or not. I thought about it all summer, weighed my decisions (at this time I thought this would be the toughest decision about my future, little did I know). But as the season approached and I decided if it was already my senior season and I could not decided if I wanted to go or not it must not be a passion of mine. So as you can tell I decided not to play ball in college. Right before my senior year I asked to men at my church to be praying for me. We had a girl come and speak about how she went to college and it just wasn't for her so after a year she stopped going and signed up with a missions organization and did just what we are getting ready to do now.

 It was such a long year for me. I prayed, I prayed and I prayed. I begged God to open doors to give me signs. I battled with what the world thought I should do and what I thought I should do. But I knew the whole time it was going to be what the Lord wanted me to do. I had three times that I can remember God was like yes KC you are taking your first year of college off and you are going to Africa for me (crazy I needed 3 times to finally get it). 

     One day I was driving in my car (her name is Roxi) and I said out loud so I knew God heard me "I know I am going to Africa, I trust that you are going to lead me there and I know that is where you want me. I will save up all of my money, all my graduation money. At the end of the summer I will buy myself a plane ticket and go to Africa and wait for you to lead me. I dont care God I know it is what you want from me so I will do it." That SAME night in my devotion book I read this verse

 "¹ The LORD had said to Abram,

"Leave your country, your people and your father's household

and go to the land I will show you.  Genesis 12:1.

WOW!!

Okay so I got it im going but how? My pastor told me about an orphanage he worked with in Uganda so I began e-mailing with them and trying to see if it would be possible for me to spend 8months to a year with them. It seemed possible but it was more of a window not a door I had to go through but I kept trying.

In the mean time I had family asking about college pestoring me with plans (sorry family) and I had friends applying or already getting accepted to college. I thought maybe I have it wrong maybe im not suppose to go to Africa. I need to retake the SAT and apply to college, so I did. This is God confermation number two and three. I took the SAT and my scores dropped and whole 100 points, I applied to the one and only college I really felt like going to and I didn't get in (see from the get go I knew I did not want to go straight to college). Then I said I guess I need to take the test again and apply somewhere else. Then I could feel the presents of the Lords spirit, he said to me KC if you apply to another college you don't trust me. I know the desires of your heart now wait and let me show you what I have planned for you. I knew I would be applying for college just incase God didn't come through. Which was stupid (never think God wont come through). So I trusted him and I didn't apply to another college. For the rest of my senior year when people asked me what I was going to do next year I said hopefully serve God in Africa, im still waiting though. It was a hard time because the ways of the world were all around me, I had people who didn't understand why I wanted to do this, friends who thought I would be eaten by pirates and family who could only see my next step was to college. But thank God I still has much support and I kept going, kept waiting and finally sent in my application to AIM. I read about the Novas project and something I read said something about working with orphans and somethings else said are you a college student wanting to take a year off to follow God and all this other stuff. I said "oh my gosh" that is the exact reason's that I have said I want to take this year off.

   It was fate and all God's timing. This is how I was called, God told me a long time ago that I would be called in to missions, he prepared me by sending me on 4 mission trips in one year. The first of the 4 was actually my first mission trip ever. He sent me friends and some family who supported me. I love him and im excited for his calling....

 

 So this is my novel on how I was called. If you read all of this God Bless you.!!

 

                                          Love, KC