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Goer Story

Posted on Monday, November 21, 2022

Looking back on it now, I think my story with going began from a very young age. I have vivid memories from when I was in highschool of telling my friends, “I will never be an international missionary. It’s cool for other people, but it is NOT for me”. Growing up, I watched my dad embark on short term missions trips building houses in Haiti, and truthfully, that was pretty much my view of missions as a whole. I knew it was for adventurous people who wanted to travel the world and who didn’t mind being uncomfortable, and I knew that wasn’t me. 

 

I went to college and knew that I wanted to do something to help people, so I began studying social work. What really formed my heart for social work was the ministry of Jesus- I saw a consistent theme of Jesus counter-culturally and radically serving hurting people, and I saw how social work aligned perfectly with this. I wanted my life to look like Jesus’ ministry, so I pursued social work whole-heartedly. I am a natural planner, so by my junior year of college, I had my life planned out. I was planning on pursuing a masters in the states and staying close to my family in Colorado. During my junior year, I ended up being exposed to a bible study on missions. This bible study slowly started planting seeds in my heart of the beauty, scope, and biblical heart of missions, but at the time, I didn’t believe missions fit into my life plan.

 

During the summer before my senior year, my life turned upside down, and a lot of my plans for my life fell through. I vividly remember spending time in prayer one day, and the Lord very tangibly placed on my heart that if I surrendered my plan to Him, He would open a door I couldn’t fathom. I started intentionally praying about surrendering my plan to God, telling Him that no matter what He asked me to do or where He asked me to go, I would say “yes”. It wasn’t long after that when my best friend showed me the Gocorp website, because they had social work missions placements. I was not seeking out missions at the time or ever thinking I would go, but since I loved social work and was looking for something to do, I looked through the placements. I remember clicking on a post for a team in Berlin, and reading about this team’s heart to see the city transformed towards Jesus. From that day on, I knew God was drawing me to Berlin, even though it made no sense to me at the time. It was never on my heart to go do missions, but God has slowly changed my heart and given me a deep passion for Berlin. I believe my story is a testament to how God is able to accomplish so much more than we can imagine as we let Him, and I am so excited to see all He does next.

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