Hey everyone!
I am so excited and privileged to be traveling with such a wonderful group of people to share Christ's love! God has been preparing my heart for this trip for some time now, and I'm finally getting to go and experience what He has been waiting to teach me.
Several months ago, I started volunteering with Kidtown, the children's Sunday school program at my church in Atlanta. I would leave every Sunday with an overwhelming love for the children I cared for, no matter how many fits were thrown, attitudes needing adjustment, or messes made. I found myself enjoying the parts that others would normally avoid. I felt comfortable speaking to the children who didn't necessarily have the best attitude, or who needed the most attention. I enjoyed encouraging the ones that were shy, because I remembered the people who encouraged me when I was growing up as a shy child. From these and other experiences, I know that God had put children on my heart, especially those who are born into unfortunate social situations, and therefore need extra encouragement while they are young, so that they can develop healthy relationships when they are older.
When I heard the opportunity to work with children in Romania, I didn't even finish asking God before He said "Yes." It had fit perfectly with what God had recently been teaching me. After I committed, God put people in path, verses in my head, and pulled large sums of money out of thin air to confirm the fact that I was supposed to go on this trip, and test my trust in Him along the way. One verse that stood out to me the most was James 1:27: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
I'm looking forward to what God wants to teach us on this trip, and I ask you pray for the team, as we go where God has called us to reach out to those "in their distress" and give them hope through His love.
Catherine
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