Tomorrow morning I am off to Guatemala on a Missions Trip! I am beyond excited and feel so blessed and at peace with this opportunity God is giving me. I think it is important though for all of us to know that where ever we are in the world we can be on a mission!
I thank you all for your prayers and well wishes before I leave! I am asking you to continue to pray for me and the people that I will encounter there! I most likely will not have access to the internet and I will be posting about everything when I return! Continue to spread God's love wherever you go. Be a glimpse of the light in darkness.
"For even the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve..." -Matthew 10:45
Sister Bernice shared with me this paragraph and I wanted to share it with all of you:
MISSION IS COMMUNION by Kathleen Reiley, M.M. and Jean Maloney, M.M.
Regardless of what ministry of service we may find ourselves engaged in - this attitude of openness, reverence for and willingness to learn from the people to whom we have been sent is essential to mission and entering into true COMMUNION with the people.
Mission is a total way of life. It is making God's love visible in our world by our work, prayer and attitudes towards one another in community and to those to whom we are sent. It is our relationship to each person, to the earth, all peoples, all cultures, in unconditional love and service that God's kingdom may come about.
[Prepared for 2014 Maryknoll Sisters Northeast Asia Mission Presence Assembly]
I thank you all so much for your prayers and well wishes before I leave! I feel so extremely blessed I do not even have the words to explain it! Thank you to those who so generously donated to help buy things to bring for the kids! Thank you Noel for my weekly spanish lessons! Thank you to my parents and brother and the rest of my family for always supporting and loving me! Thank you for my roommates and my friends to help guide me every day to get to this point! Because of all of you I have been fueled to go and do what I feel God is calling me to do right now in my life, thank you all for helping to be an instrument!
I am asking you to continue to pray for me and the people that I will encounter there! I most likely will not have access to the internet and I will be posting about everything when I return! Continue to spread God's love wherever you go. Be a glimpse of the light in darkness.
"For even the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve..." -Matthew 10:45
^This song inspires me!
God Bless!!!!
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