I'm going back out on the mission field again! I'm doing another trip with AIM. This is their alumni 10/40 trip. Everyone on this trip has already done a trip with AIM before whether that's the race like I did or AIM's gap year program. In case you don't know, the 10/40 window is between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude. There are more people living inside the 10/40 window than outside it and countries ...

*Repost from old blog 9/19/2022 It’s been over 2 months since I updated you guys about what I’ve been doing. I was at home in Michigan for 5 weeks. I have to say that those five weeks were a hard time for much the same reason I mentioned in my last blog. I just haven’t really had a community in Michigan but I have been praying for that when I get back. While I was home I started joining my parents at their church,...

*Repost from old blog 7/6/2022 It has been about a week since I came home from the world race. My squad arrived at the Atlanta airport on June 23rd. We then had a week-long final debrief at Adventures base in Gainesville where we had our training camp a year ago now. Then I flew alone for the first time in a year flying from Atlanta to Detroit on June 30th.  During final debrief we spent the week having session...

*Repost from old blog 6/5/2022 As I shared briefly in my last blog my team has been helping out Hope Church with refugees that are just passing through before heading to other countries. I wanted to share some of the stories of being with the refugees. My favorite story was from like my second or third day helping at the house. I was playing with this cute little three-year-old girl. She’s a super adventurous a...

*Repost from old blog 5/27/2022 On May 13th our squad returned to the same country that we started the race on, Romania. We are back in the same house with the same church in the same city. It has been really weird arriving in a place that we’ve already been. Knowing where the church, the stores, and the restaurants are located. Knowing some of the people that we got to meet and do ministry with and remembering a ...

*Repost from old blog 5/15/2022 My time in Armenia has come to an end and I am actually back in Romania for our last country of the race. A kind of redemption of round 1 of Romania. But I want to talk about the ministry we were working with, in Armenia. We spent our month working at a special needs orphanage. It is the largest orphanage in Armenia.  Going into it I was very nervous. I’ve never worked with speci...

*Repost from old blog 5/7/2022 Armenia has existed in some form for over 2,000 years. A lot of that history is very tragic, especially in modern times. One thing that has been constant in Armenia’s history is that it has been the battleground of empires. It was the land that the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire fought over, and later on, it was the battlegrounds of the Ottoman, Persian, and Russian Empires. ...

*Repost from old blog 5/1/2022 I first heard about the country of Armenia when I was in middle school. I was in a museum, I don’t remember where or what it was called, but one of the rooms looked like an Armenian church. Inside there were plaques, telling you about some of Armenia’s history (my next blog will probably be about Armenia’s long and hard history). The only part of Armenia’s history I remember learning...

*Repost from old blog 4/28/2022 During my time in our week-long prayer burn, I was asked by our squad mentor if I’d be willing to give one of the teachings that we had every night at the burn. I said that I would do it. But before I get into that I’m going to rewind to my time back in Ukraine. Every Saturday night they had a youth group that met at the church. During the month that we were there, they wanted my te...

*Repost from old blog 4/22/2022 During our final debrief on the field in Batumi, Georgia I signed up for a one-on-one with my squad mentor, Ari. The day that I was set to have it with her I asked God what He wanted me to talk to her about. The response I got back was something I was simultaneously surprised and unsurprised by, deliverance.  We can allow the enemy to get a foothold in our lives (Ephesians 4:27)....