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Category Archives: Missionary Blogs
Missionary Blog
Is God calling YOU to mission? LT mission base in Holland
God chooses us to His call (John 15:16). Have you ever thought of being a missionary? Does your heart jump when you talk to people who are missionaries? Have you ever prayed into becoming a missionary? Every choice made in freedom liberates us. We live in a culture and time of fear, selfishness and social upheaval. We are often insecure and scared to make choices, afraid we will fail, scared of public opinion. “Do not be afraid” (Acts 18:9, is 41:10, Is 43:1,5) is all over Scripture. We are in this world, but not of this world. We are called [...]
Missionary Blog
To be and not to do
I’ve been having quite a few conversations lately about why Life Teen Missions is focused on learning how to “be” instead of “doing”—admittedly, this is something that’s a little hard to grasp onto (after almost two years, I’m still trying to figure it out!). That doesn’t necessarily mean that, as missionaries, we don’t “do” anything…it’s more like focusing on the WHY behind the “what” we’re doing.
Blogger's Block
So, I’m sure you’ve all heard of writer’s block. Well I’d like to start this blog with a similar topic: a little something that I like to call “Blogger’s Block.” Its different from writer’s block because its not that I don’t know what to say or how to end a story. I have a million different things I could and would like to write about. No, my problem is going from “thinking in my head/conversation” mode to “explain what I’m talking about in writing” mode. Its a tough transition for me. I have a hard time saying what I want to [...]
Missionary Blog
Early morning blog
It’s early morning, and nobody is up yet. I have beaten the crowd to the office. There is no noise. AWESOME!!!! I just shouted this. This might be my favorite time of the day. When everyone else is still asleep. I feel that I am the only one awake right now and am spending it one on one with God. But I think I enjoy this so much because of the freedom and the community that surrounds me. Otherwise I would wake up in the morning and just feel loneliness, depression, and weariness. I love my family and am so [...]
Become Who You Are
I hear people say this phrase or something similar all the time. It usually bothers me because I wonder what the heck it even means. Recently, God has been showing me what it means. I spent two weeks at Covecrest to be able to spend some time observing the way camp is run there. Although the purpose for me being there was camp related, God used my time in Georgia for a purpose far greater than just camp. It’s a really long story, but I will try to give you a brief summary. While I was in Georgia, I had [...]
"Maria I'm not going to flood you"
Last week I got to go home for a few days because I had orientation for college. I was so excited for orientation but ended up leaving so confused. It was a flood of information all at once and I felt overwhelmed by the whole day. I ended up not picking a good schedule because I wasn’t sure what classes I really needed to be taking. I also realized that I had a lot of things to get done before the first day of school which is August 16, but my missionary year doesn’t end until August 15, so needless [...]
Missionary Blog
Week #2 of LT camp: I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO PRAY!
Ok… so I’ve been a missionary for about 9 months now, and I think for the FIRST time I’ve FINALLY learned how to pray. Do you wanna know what I’ve learned? Alright… I’ll tell you A few weeks ago my dear brother and sister, John Paul and Sheila, were here leading worship during training week for the summer staffers. The Covecrest missionary girls were incredibly blessed to have Sheila staying in our house. While here, Sheila told us a part of her spiritual journey. She had an experience in college where a friend of hers asked how her spiritual life [...]
Revelations
I don’t even know how to start this blog. I feel like I have SO MANY thoughts from the last few weeks, I can’t even begin to string them into coherent sentences (which I could use as an excuse for my only blogging once a month, instead of the promised once a week…but that’s just a lame excuse). So I’ll just jump right in and talk about something that I think is rather essential in understanding me, and how God speaks to me. I have a lot of what have come to be known as “revelations.” Last year, the other [...]
Missionary Blog
Week #1 of Summer Camp
As the Covecrest family has been preparing for summer camp, it has been quite a crazy and humbling experience. It is an incredible blessing for me to be able to witness the fruits that have come from this family praying all year for the Life Teen Summer camps. It has only been 3 days of the first week of camp, and God is already moving in powerful ways. Last night, we had our first adoration for the teens. I was able to hear a glory story from one of the summer staffers. She told us that her entire parish group [...]
Missionary Blog
Mr. S, I Beg to Differ.
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