The Obligatory Introduction
Hi! My name is Rebecca and I'm an average 19 year old who lives in the beautiful state of Idaho and this is my 5th attempt at making a blog that doesn't suck! The sole purpose for this particular blog is to document my adventures during the next few months with YWAM (Youth With A Mission.)
This year I got accepted into a missions training program that’s done by YWAM. It’s a 5 month program consisting of a “Lecture Phase” followed by and “Outreach Phase.”During the Lecture Phase, which runs from January through March, I’ll be living in Boise with the other students and taking classes that are primarily missions based. .
The last two months of the program, April and May, will be spent on a mission trip, putting everything we learned to use. And guess where we’re going? Cyprus and Greece, where we’ll be working mainly with refugees. Wow. How cool is that?
So yeah, at the end of the year I’ll be quitting my job, moving to Boise, living with a bunch of strangers, doing some college work, then leaving the country and living abroad for two months.
I’m not quite sure how I summed up the courage to sign up for this…and I’m even less sure how I’m going to maintain the courage to go through with it! The whole thing seems really daunting! Thank goodness I have Jesus. He’s the reason I’m doing this after all!
I love my job most of the time, but for the past year I’ve found myself constantly fighting the feeling that I’m wasting my time, and that all my efforts are useless. The urge to do something more fulfilling…something that is more worthwhile just keeps growing. So I finally decided that I don’t want to spend my whole life working in a bowling alley, and thought I should go on a mission trip. But not just like a one week, one and done kind of trip. No, I wanted to go to a place where I could invest a larger amount of time to build relationships and not just tell them about Jesus, but show them Jesus.
And not only will I get to do this, but I’ll also get to experience a different culture very closely, and realistically…not from the typical tourist’s point of view. Not to mention the fact that I’ll be furthering my education…not necessarily toward a career, but in growing closer in my relationship to Jesus, stronger in my faith, and learning how to share his Word with the lost. I can not think of a more worthwhile, useful, and rewarding way to spend my time than that!
Even though I am mildly freaked out about this, I am so excited for this opportunity at the same time. It makes my introverted self uncomfortable, but I know that I will be SO glad that I did this, and the lessons I’ll learn and the experiences I’ll have will stick with me for my whole life. I want nothing more than to serve Jesus and help build His Kingdom. Am I uneasy about this? Totally. This will shove me out of my comfort zone like nothing else. But am I going to do it? Totally. Because I know it will be worth it, and "I know Who goes before me and I know Who stands behind. The God of angel armies is always by my side!"
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This year I got accepted into a missions training program that’s done by YWAM. It’s a 5 month program consisting of a “Lecture Phase” followed by and “Outreach Phase.”During the Lecture Phase, which runs from January through March, I’ll be living in Boise with the other students and taking classes that are primarily missions based. .
The last two months of the program, April and May, will be spent on a mission trip, putting everything we learned to use. And guess where we’re going? Cyprus and Greece, where we’ll be working mainly with refugees. Wow. How cool is that?
So yeah, at the end of the year I’ll be quitting my job, moving to Boise, living with a bunch of strangers, doing some college work, then leaving the country and living abroad for two months.
I’m not quite sure how I summed up the courage to sign up for this…and I’m even less sure how I’m going to maintain the courage to go through with it! The whole thing seems really daunting! Thank goodness I have Jesus. He’s the reason I’m doing this after all!
I love my job most of the time, but for the past year I’ve found myself constantly fighting the feeling that I’m wasting my time, and that all my efforts are useless. The urge to do something more fulfilling…something that is more worthwhile just keeps growing. So I finally decided that I don’t want to spend my whole life working in a bowling alley, and thought I should go on a mission trip. But not just like a one week, one and done kind of trip. No, I wanted to go to a place where I could invest a larger amount of time to build relationships and not just tell them about Jesus, but show them Jesus.
And not only will I get to do this, but I’ll also get to experience a different culture very closely, and realistically…not from the typical tourist’s point of view. Not to mention the fact that I’ll be furthering my education…not necessarily toward a career, but in growing closer in my relationship to Jesus, stronger in my faith, and learning how to share his Word with the lost. I can not think of a more worthwhile, useful, and rewarding way to spend my time than that!
Even though I am mildly freaked out about this, I am so excited for this opportunity at the same time. It makes my introverted self uncomfortable, but I know that I will be SO glad that I did this, and the lessons I’ll learn and the experiences I’ll have will stick with me for my whole life. I want nothing more than to serve Jesus and help build His Kingdom. Am I uneasy about this? Totally. This will shove me out of my comfort zone like nothing else. But am I going to do it? Totally. Because I know it will be worth it, and "I know Who goes before me and I know Who stands behind. The God of angel armies is always by my side!"
I may not feel ready,
but I am willing.
So here I go!
~Rebecca Rae
So here I go!
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~Rebecca Rae
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