After I put away all the English handouts and lesson plans, I feel like I can answer the question of my profession with more confidence.

The most important thing I picked up from this summer in this new role, was the importance of intentionality in connecting with staff and students.

While I was preparing to leave for Hungary this spring, one of the most frequent questions I received from friends and family was, “Why? Why Hungary, or missions, or an unpaid internship?”

What if everyone in the world felt just as strongly about reaching out to others with the sole purpose of showing them Christ-like love without a personal agenda?

I am excited to see where God is leading us; there is a deepening of the soul that leads to a deepening of personal discipleship.

In grad school, I was so convinced that I was heading towards the adult acute care population that I was one of two or three people in my cohort who didn’t include the strongly recommended school setting in my clinical practicum.

As a missionary in the fundraising stage of my journey, I feel like I’m waking up every morning and choosing whether or not to push the fear back and to step off the ledge.

I know that there are places where it is very dangerous to speak about Jesus, but there are forces at work who want to stop missionaries no matter where they are.

Sometimes it’s so easy to forget those verses I memorized so long ago in Sunday School; “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

The thing that was different about moving to Hungary, was that if something happened, I couldn’t just be there.

God took my heart of fear and changed it again. My heart broke for the teenagers that I work with.