Once a week, my team walks to a very poor neighborhood down the street from the church we’re staying at.  While in the neighborhood, we visit different houses and offer to pray for the people living in them.  Since starting this ministry during week one, my group has visited the same house every time.  The family has a 10-year-old son named Juan Carlos, and he was born with several mental and physical disabilities, which has put him in a wheel chair for his whole life. When I met Juan Carlos for the first time, I became emotional because I felt so heartbroken for his...

I have 13 beautiful new sisters, and they are all so unique in their own way. But I believe that the desire to love and be loved by someone greater than themselves is the same in all of us.  We all sleep in the school’s art room together, and last night after the day had ended and our thoughts began to jumble, we all slowly made our way down to what serves as the church sanctuary, when it’s not filled with giggling children on school days. There in front of an empty stage, we each praised our Savior through song and dancing. My head fell back against the checkered floor as...

” I want you to show me the depths of my heart, the caverns of my soul, the parts inside of me that I never knew existed, the parts I would otherwise run away from.” This is the prayer I prayed before my trip. I didn’t want to hold anything back. I wanted the Lord to expose me in my nakedness, to reveal to me the dark parts of my heart, to show me His love. Tonight He did. As the night fell and everything was settling with it, my heart raced. I knew I needed to talk with my Dad. I had something burdening my heart and He was waiting for me to spill it. I don’t always...

When I stepped off a plane today and set my feet upon the ground millions of others have already walked upon, I knew with a deep and unfailing conviction that my Savior had still not changed. Hot and sticky air I had never breathed before washed over me. Thunder and lightning flickered and clapped in the distance over skylines that my eyes had never beheld until this very moment.  The sound of voices clashing into a jumbled symphony all screamed of an ever changing tide of life and color I didn’t understand. And yet my God is still unchanging.   I was driven to my new home...