God has been so tangible and His presence has been so real at training camp. It is hard to put into words how His spirit has been moving through myself and my teammates. Last night during worship, one of my teammates came and prayed over me while we were worshiping and his prayer filled me with an overwhelming sense of peace and joy. I had no cares, no concerns, no worries, no other thoughts other than worshiping God. He prayed freedom and victory over me and that I would walk freely in grace as a daughter of Christ. Last night was the first time that I freely and openly worshiped God and it...

Leaving my family behind may have been the hardest thing I have ever done. But meeting this new family here in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of the best things I've ever done. This team of people that I'm going with to Uganda is absolutely incredible. People so passionate for God that it inspires me every day, and people that I've already grown ridiculously close to in just a few short days. I still can't believe that this trip I've looked forward to for so long is actually happening. I flew to Atlanta, I met my team at the airport, I took a bus to a camp an hour away with them,...

The overwhelming theme of every stage of preparing for this trip has been that God is faithful. In that, I came face to face with my complete dependence upon Him. So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that He would show up in the same way and teach me the same lessons at training camp.  His presence has been so real and tangible over the past few days. I know it seems obvious that He would make Himself known among our team as we prepare to be sent out, but it just reminded me that God doesn’t wait to show up once you’ve flown across an ocean or crossed a border. He’s...

If any of ya'll know me, you know that I don't do bugs. At all. When we first arrived at training camp we were told to drop our luggage off at the cabin and grab 3 things we might need. Luckily, I decided to bring a sleeping bag, pillow, and my medicine. Anyways, long story short we had to sleep outside in our shelter that we built out of tarp and rope. So obviously, I was not expecting that at all. LOVING it would be a stretch to say, but it definitley helped me understand where my heart was at through all this. Basically what i've learned in training camp is that I never want to...

Things I’ve learned from training camp 1. Freedom to worship however you like. You don’t have to sit at your seat. You don’t have to keep singing. Worship is worship, and as long as you are praising the Lord with your heart it doesn’t really matter what you are doing. It’s a simple idea… But I finally get it now. And I have fallen straight up love with worshipping. 2. No judgement. This family dynamic we have with our team will not work if we judge each other. We all were really blessed and this team is awesome. 3. How to be flexible. Yeah. We don’t...

   That is what I've heard relentlessly the past four months. And it is a lie: a total lie. I have purpose, and I intend to fulfill it.    The past four months have been a particularly perilous season in my life; it has been a time of confusion and clarity, impossible and improbable, smoke and mirrors, the effaceable and the inevitable. The past four days have been a culmination of all those things, a marvelous release of things cramped within so long one hardly knows how to utter them anymore. I had a tight-taught, chaotic mess of thoughts, so dense and so immense...