My Calling

Like many missionaries, my journey to the mission field started as a little girl. I loved when missionaries would come to my church. I would soak in their stories about the people and cultures they experienced and they always brought cool toys! Being from a small town in North Carolina, I was fascinated. I never dreamt I would have that opportunity myself. Fast-forward many years later and I find myself answering God's call to leave behind a successful career in Corporate America to serve Him as a missionary in Nicaragua!

I accepted Christ as my Savior as a little girl, but when I was in middle school, I found myself trying to follow a list of rules but all the while inching further and further away from God's best for my life. This is where my missionary story starts to look a little unique. By my mid-20s, I was so far from God that He had to stop me in my tracks. I got myself into some trouble but fortunately, I knew where to turn. The Lord welcomed me back with loving arms where ever since He's been pruning and molding me into someone with a heart for serving and reaching people who are far from him, just like I had been.  

Looking back, I can see how God's plan has played out so beautifully. A seed was planted in my heart for Nicaragua when I started sponsoring a child there through Compassion International. That seed was watered when I went to meet him in 2016. It was around that time that I started getting involved in mission work with my church, doing some local and regional missions. Then in 2019, I went on my first international mission trip to Haiti. That's where I realized God was calling me to do mission work in Nicaragua. At first I thought this was just like other trips, a one week a year committment and I thought, yeah ok, I can do that. But after a few months of wrestling with God and a vision trip to Nicaragua, I was ready to surrender to a full-time calling. God had broken my heart for this beautiful country with such beautiful people. He had shown me how amidst the exterior beauty, so many people in Nicaragua are hurting, not just from their immense physical poverty, but spiritually as well. They are missing that key piece that changes everything, having a personal relationship with Jesus.