England. I have always been in love with British literature and the history, a passion that I have followed in my schooling and soon I will be living in the very place I read about all too often. As some of you may know, I was originally a part of the June World Race. After much prayer and many conversations, I realized that I was not at peace with this decision. Searching AIM led me to FYM in England and here I am now! I am so excited to still be a part of Adventures in Missions and praise God that I am still going to be involved with missions this upcoming year. So now I guess you want to know a little bit about me...

I am  22 years old livin in Mission, B.C. Canada. I am currently finishing up my last semester of college(and looking forward to it after 5 years! WOO HOO!!!) I will have an English major with a minor in history. One day I would like to be a high school teacher, but for now...God has other plans...

I grew up in a fabulous Christian home with my awesome parents whom I share a very close relationship with and 2 big bros that are always there for me, especially when I need a pick me up (and I mean literally, upside down, laughing my head off, and screaming). I don’t remember going to church, it was just something we always did on Sundays. Unfortunately, life got really busy when I was 15. All of us kids had jobs and most jobs had us working Sundays. So the regular church goin ended.

For my first year of college I decided to go to a school out in Kelowna. I had an awesome year and met my best friend Alana. However, I came back and felt like something was still missing.

I knew as soon as I returned to Mission that I had to start going to church and the Lord led me to Northview Community Church in Abbotsford through a school project. The last 3 years God has been teaching me so many new things and I finally stepped forth, was baptized June 2005 and I now
own my faith. Not going just because the family goes, but going because I love God and know that he is the way.

Things haven’t always been easy. This past year I have felt burnt out from school, lost my passion for my dream of becoming a teacher, and I was feeling stretched all the time. I never seemed to have enough time in the days to get everything done, or to spend time with my wonderful friends or anything. I was always tired, couldn’t sleep, unhappy, and just didn’t care about a lot of things anymore.

Then in October I really felt God tugging at my heart to go on a missions trip. I had traveled before to Guatemala, Greece, Italy, and England, but had never gone on a missions before. I have always had a desire to travel the world and travel with a purpose. My schooling got in the way of the short term missions trips being offered at my church so a pastor suggested I ‘google’ for one. I soon found the World Race and knew I had to apply, which has actually led me to this point now.

I am most excited for England because not only do I get to spend time with God, away from distractions of my life as of now, but I get to spread his word and show his love to everyone we meet. I get to live with total strangers who will become family in a matter of moments. We, as a team, are given the opportunities to pray with anyone and everyone, to share with others about our saviour, and to change lives. I have always had England on my heart and have heard too many times that it is a spiritually thirsty country. Sure there are lots of ‘what ifs’ and ‘what about this’ but in the end, it is just about going. Stepping out and totally relying on God and knowing, truly knowing, that he will lead the way. There many be hard times when we feel like we as a team and as individuals are not achieving anything, but God will work through us and will take the people we build relationships with in his hands. He is the one that will lead us. I am so excited to be a part of this team and cannot wait to see what God does over this next year.

“Submit yourselves, then, to God…Come near to God and he will come near to you…Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up”

-James 4:7-10