Onto the Next Adventure

I've been in Hong Kong for almost a week now. It's been quite a week. I think the first few days were the hardest between the jet-lag, homesickness, and culture shock.  I came to campus about a week and a half early so most of the college students haven't moved in yet and the dorm is basically empty. Hence, the loneliness started to creep in along with the question of "What am I doing here?".  Despite the jumble of emotions I was and sometimes still am, God has been faithful.  He has sent people to welcome me and show me around the campus and Hong Kong. He has sent people to remind me of lessons He has taught me in the past like how God uses the littlest things we are faithful in to reach people and how He has given us each our own unique style of witnessing. There is no comparison necessary and there isn't a standard I need to surpass. I'm here to please God, no one else.   This campus is beautiful. It is a small campus in the mountains a little ways from...

Honestly, one of the things I was most nervous for was traveling to get to Hong Kong.  To start, I'm a bit new to flying by myself plus having a layover in Korea where I don't speak the language didn't help but the biggest thing was arriving in Hong Kong. I've heard the horror stories of SMs that had a hard time getting to their locations and I know the devil will try everything he can to keep us from doing God's work.  I worked at Camp Cherokee in New York, one of the SDA summer camps for the summer and signed my contract before I got the visa and purchased the tickets. The contract ended August 12, giving me August 13 to make the 7 hour drive back to New Jersey, to fly out August 14, and arrive on August 15. My flight was set to arrive at 10:30 pm on August 15 while my visa expired at midnight.  There were so many "what ifs" that came with that long process. What if the car broke down on the way back from camp? What if we got to the airport late and miss...

I’m going to Hong Kong because when God showed me His call for each one of His followers to go and make disciples, I responded “Here I am, Lord, send me”. Never would I have imagined that He would send me across the world for a year, away from my family and my friends.   I don’t think I have a very adventurous spirit. But I want to spend my life devoted to His cause and living in surrender to His purposes. Despite my fears, I know that the blessing is in the going.  Already, He has blessed in providing the way for me to go. My first semester in college, I took the SALT program at Southern and that experience and training woke me up to the work of spreading the gospel that God calls each one of us to. My second semester, I started thinking about taking a year off for Student Missions.  I told God if He wanted me to go, He had to make the way. One of the things holding me back was the $150 application fee for something I wasn’t sure I was ready to commit to. Before a c...