Africa!

My answer is yes the question is where. God has put the nations on my heart. I continuely ask God to send me! Now I am one of those who are going to Africa this summer. I am so incredibly blessed, thankfull, and speechless! God never fails to amaze me! The following is a segment from my journal from afew months ago.

"To know that there are people hurting in the world, but others living lavishly makes me think things could be different and should be different and I want to do something about it. If givin the oppertunity to go into the nations it would be so much more than a personal experience. It would be more than a life completely turned upside down.
Those hurting children in poverty are God's children. For us to go reach them is to be the heartbeat of God. In each act would be a beat of God's own heart. To know that I could relate to those children in a personal way makes going more than an option but a desire. To personaly relate myself to an orphan would be by expressing my life as an orphan. My mother passed away when I was 12 and my father is a drug addict who was never a father figure. The feeling can be understood but never felt by someone unexperienced. Harsh poverty in my youth also can be related to what the people are living in. To have a bases to relate with will make a connection stroger and the words and actions have more meaning. A passion is embedded in my heart and is stirred everytime I think about reaching those children. I believe I have experienced everything I have in life to be able to relate and reach the African people. I truely hope I will be accepted."

Take a Look

A generation filled with desolate waste that captures our minds and dictates our lives. Living in a world of corruption and injustice that turns its back to the needy and untouched. How can we remain silent and inactive as we watch the self-destruction of our nation? Politicians with their multimillion-dollar campaigns that would rather put their name on a billboard, then help a family in poverty. Corporations that exploit pornography to teens in order to widen their pocketbooks. Religious leaders full of perversion harming children for their own personal satisfaction. Look around at this world that has no moral foundation. It sickens me to say the least. More importantly it motivates me to make a stand and to continue in this fight for survival. As Christians we can no longer alienate ourselves in our churches. We must invade the world, getting dirty and making a difference. The blame does not fall on anyone, but the responsibility has been laid in our laps. We cannot wait any longer for someone else to make the change. Procrastinating has dug our graves deeper, and we are running out of time. How much farther does the world have to fall before we decide we need to catch it? My feet are planted and my heart is set. I will not give up or back down. I will not shut up or be silenced. I will not be over looked or unheard. I will fight with all I have, and will not stop till things are changed! This is the time that we make a stand and change our world!