"The World Traveler"

I seem to have been given a new label from many here at home: “the world traveler”. I have been blessed with the opportunity to go many places: many through family vacations but also I have been to places with a team of people, especially these past few years. It was on these trips, dependent not on my family but on the Lord and the team, that I have learned so much:

In Ethiopia, I experienced the voice of the Lord in a way I had never experienced, being used to reach a person I had just had a “feeling” about.

In Nepal and another country in that region, I was introduced to a whole new spiritual realm, seeing the power of the Lord that physically heals people. Also witnessing and experiencing the persecuted church by meeting in secret and knowing the government was monitoring our movements.

In Nepal the second time, I felt the burden of long-term ministry. Hearing from organizations of how long ministry takes to make even the slightest bit of change and witnessing the hurt that the church is trying to aid.

With these life experiences abroad, I am all the more excited to be going on this trip to Egypt with all the possibilities that I can learn in this land. I am excited to be in a place I have known little about prior to this point, to learn of a conflict that has been going on for years, to be a minority both ethnically and religiously, to be a resident with another culture instead of just a visitor, and to see a part of the world that I only hear through the American press. I can only imagine what I will be seeing, what I will be facing, and I am so excited for what is to come.

Countdown: 3 days until D.C., 5 days until Cairo.