If you’re reading this blog you probably already know something about my plans for 2009-2010. Last September as I approached the last few quarters of my time at Bellevue Community College and started making plans about what I would do next, I came across the website for Mission Year. The idea of spending a year in service to some of the poorest communities in the US immediately caught my interest and I think I read every single page of the website in one sitting.. and then again the next day. Long story short: I am doing Mission Year 09-10 and am crazy excited. (if you don't know what Mission Year is, look it up because I am tired of explaining it... www.missionyear.org)
I hope to learn how to live in community with other believers, understand the viewpoint of the poor, and be able to translate my love for Jesus into purposefully living to serve others. I want to be challenged and pushed out of my comfort zone. I have become so dissatisfied with our culture and the way I see myself conform to its ideas of consumerism and individualism. I know that isn’t the way Jesus wants me to live and I think Mission Year is a great way to learn how to start living the way I need to. I can’t wait for this fall and all the things I will learn as I go through this year, and I hope any of you who read this will enjoy going through them with me!
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