2021 Transformation Magazine

have gone on three Detroit Mission
I
in high school, one Puerto
Trips
Mission Trip and shared my
Rico
with my youth group. All
testimony
those things were super
of
for me, but God gave
challenging
the strength and courage to get
me
them.
through
all three of the Detroit mission
On
I volunteered with a day camp
trips,
kids. My team would stay at a
for
in downtown Detroit for a
church
Each day we would wake up
week.
spend the day with kids in the
and
fortunate community. Our main
less
was to spend time with them,
goal
sure they were having fun, and
make
importantly, show them God's
most
We would feed them breakfast,
love.
gym time, go over a Bible
have
with them, do a craft-based
lesson
of the Bible story that day and
off
them lunch. At the end of
provide
week, we got to take them to a
the
which they loved! It was
waterpark,
challenging for me to be away
super
my family for that long, but it
from
all worth knowing that I was
was
my part in spreading God's
doing
and His love. It was a very
word
week each year I went, but
chaotic
was incredible to see the kid's
it
light up whenever we were
faces
and returned the following
there
My love for the kids led me to
year.
weekly on Saturdays for a
volunteer
program called ABC's in the
tutoring
D.
Puerto Rico Mission Trip was one
The
the biggest challenges that God
of
me in high school. It took a lot
gave
thinking and praying for me to
of
to this trip. God was calling
commit
to go on this trip, but it was super
me
would have to fly down to Puerto
I
with my youth group, and we
Rico
stay down there serving in the
would
for ten days. This trip
community
something way outside of my
was
zone, but God continued to
comfort
me, and I finally decided that I
push
sacrifice feeling comfortable
would
bless other people, and I'm so
to
that I did. We ended up making
glad
a significant impact on each
such
we worked on while being
project
there. We repainted the entire
down
of the church that we stayed
outside
we pulled and cut down weeds all
at,
the church, we visited an
around
home to play with the
orphanage
and we walked around the
kids,
praying for anyone
community,
to let us. It was such a
willing
feeling to know that I was
fantastic
God's love with people who
sharing
even speak the same language
didn't
me. as
my testimony at my youth
Giving
was probably the biggest
group
that God faced me with
challenge
all four years of high school.
during
speaking is my biggest fear,
Public
I avoid it in any way I can. So,
and
I noticed that God was telling
when
to share my testimony, I quickly
me
scared. At first, I thought
became
I was not doing my testimony
that
I didn't t want to put myself
because
the stress that would come
through
it. I prayed about it a lot, and it
with
something that God wanted me
was
do. I was super nervous, but I
to
to trust God and go through
decided
it. It was a pretty unique
with
to step that far out of my
experience
zone and place all of my
comfort
in God to get me through it
trust
nerve-racking for me.
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