How it started: It was 15 years ago this year that the GoCorps partnership and pathway was formed, and together since then, we’ve linked arms as mobilizers, mission orgs, donors, campus leaders, conferences and lots more, to collectively cast the vision of serving missional among the oppressed and unreached.  

How it’s going: Praise God for what he’s done over the last 15 years. Think about it… college students are the most sought after demographic by corporate advertisers. Billions of dollars each year are spent to entice college age students to embrace specific products since they are at the trajectory setting season of their life, developing habits that will continue in the decades to come. These billions of dollars are mostly encouraging students to embrace a me-first, American dream lifestyle of comfort, safety and plenty.  

But over the last 15 years, together we’ve helped 300 Goers find their place in God’s global work and invest their career skill-sets in God’s mission! We are so grateful to be able to celebrate this with you, since each of you reading this have been an important part of the GoCorps story. I look forward to continuing our partnership with you in seeking to make mid-term missions a normalized first step for Christian college students after graduation!

Kyla graduated from Azusa Pacific University in May 2023 with a degree in Education. Kyla heard about GoCorps through our partnership with the APU G.A.P Years (Go and Prepare) program - which sends out a cohort of students who are ready and willing to serve overseas with Christ-based community development and/or mission organizations that work with least reached people groups for two years after graduation. Through GoCorps, Kyla found a position that combined her specialization in special education with her passion for the special needs community. Kyla is joining a team in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help develop a social and support network for special needs children and families. Individuals with special needs, mental and physical disabilities, and other development delays are often completely without individual, targeted care despite their loving and resilient families. Her team seeks to be a transformational witness to this sector of society. Hear Kyla share her testimony in this 2 minute video.

Kyla is a great representative of all the other 299 Goers that have served before her. She’s an ordinary Christian, saying ‘yes’ to God’s invitation to serve, following God in faith, but also mixed with fear, questions and doubts. But she’s continued to give God her next ‘yes,’ and now she lives in Africa!