Did you realize not everyone in this world knows candy canes are peppermint flavored...? If not, I'm sorry to be the first one to break this news to you! And I'm not just talking about people in the remotest village of Papua New Guinea or people with some medical condition that affects their sense of taste...no. I've discovered there are people in the Western, social-media-connected, Christmas-movie-watching world that have never actually tasted a candy cane, and therefore live in complete ignorance of the simple fact that candy canes are peppermint flavored!
I discovered this unsettling…
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By the end of this week I will have been here for 3 months!!! That's hard to wrap my mind around. So much learning has happened. So many relationships have begun. So many opportunities for Gospel-centered conversations have arisen!
I've been completely shocked in my interactions with classmates at the language school, (this school hosts people from alllll over the world...just last week I found myself in a conversation with 4 other people, and among us, we all represented a different continent. And a guy from continent #6 was standing nearby!), to find out just how many people my age,…
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I’m well over a month into support-raising! Wow...saying this time has flown would be a ridiculous understatement. SO much has happened since GoWeek. Some good, and some not great, but through it all God has been amazingly faithful and near to me. Between grieving the loss of my grandma, officially quitting my jobs as a barista and homecare aid, and saying goodbye to my home and loved ones in Washington, my faith has been all sorts of stretched in this time. In seasons of massive transition like this, I have to constantly remind myself that God is the Giver of all good things. He is a perfect…
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It's really here! Support raising time has come. Well, a couple more days of training, and THEN it's official. This week of training, though exhausting, has been amazingly rewarding so far. Coming in to this GoWeek in Pittsburgh I knew very little about what to expect, (I mean really, I didn't even know Pittsburgh had skyscrapers...#westcoastbestcoast). It's been a time of bonding with fellow Goers and with leaders, learning support raising methods, and gaining vision of the organizations we're preparing to work with!
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