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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Keep Shining

   
Over the past few days, I have been reading a book that I recently found on my mother's bookshelf called Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis. This true story features a young women, Katie Davis herself, who literally gave up everything for the work God had called her to do in Uganda. She gave up comfort, wealth, college, marraige, everything, just to go and spend time teaching the word of God and loving on the orphans there. She eventually founded a non-profit organization known as Amazima (http://amazima.org/) that helps to provide schooling, medical treatment, a place to live, and other essentials for orphans there who have lost everything. She is also in the process of adopting thirteen little girls that she has taken in. She is truly a remarkable woman of God and, if you ever get the chance, I highly recommend taking the time to read her story. I know you will be truly blessed by all that God has called her to do.
   
   Throughout the unveiling of her story, she speaks a lot about the many different things God has shown her throughout her journey in Uganda. There are many of these revelations that have stuck with me, but there is one in particular that has stayed on my heart for a while. 


Thursday, September 11, 2014

Come On God, Hurry Up!

   
At the age of 12 how was I to know that in a year I would be flying off on my own to New York 
City? How was I to know that a year after that I would be embarking on an even greater 
adventure to a small country on the opposite side of the world? How was I too know that I would stand up in front of a village, composed of more than fifty people, and share my testimony and the Gospel of Jesus Christ? At the age of twelve I had no idea about the crazy adventure that God was going to send me on. I only got a glimpse...
  
  It all started three years ago when I attended a youth conference with my youth group. At the time I had no idea that, when I stepped into that arena, the course of my life was going to be completely redirected. While at this conference the speakers shared of people all over the world who had never heard the name 'Jesus Christ.' They shared of orphans who were starving and just wanted someone to love and cherish them. They told of people that were hopelessly lost and needed the love and hope of Christ so desperately. As I sat there listening and taking in all that they were saying, God began to slowly put in my heart the desire to go and be a light to these people. I wanted to bring them the hope and love of the amazing God who had changed my life in a way that is completely indescribable.