First things first, I’m excited to meet all of you! I’m REALLY looking forward to seeing what the Lord has in store for each of you over the next few months. I know it’s good!

K. Here’s my story so far. I’m going to keep it short.

I come from a big family; five brothers, 2 sisters, one brother in law, one awesome nephew and another little one on the way. We moved around a lot when I was growing up, but we’ve been in South Carolina since I was 12, and I’m 26 …so that’s 14 years here! I believe that our personal stories are part of the story of Jesus, who He is and what He’s doing, so here’s the real deal.

I grew up going to church, but didn’t really start thinking seriously about Jesus until I was around 12. I asked Him to come live in my heart at a summer camp. I started getting to know Him, felt confident that He wanted to be my friend. I think I really pursued knowing Him for about a year, and then fell into being religious. I started attending a Christian school  that preached an interesting version of the gospel; heavy on legalism and low on grace. My view of Abba was all wrong, I saw Him as a distant  and disappointedGod; quick to get angry, slow to love, and with lots of requirements.

When it was time to graduate high school I was ridiculous! Hanging out with the wrong people, and making real unwise decisions, often. I moved to a city on the coast for the first 2 years of college. The first year I pretty much did what I wanted, drank a lot, partied a lot. By the time I was beginning my sophomore year the Lord was hard after my heart, because He is Faithful. His loyalty to His own is something I don’t even have words for, there’s nothing like it. So He pursued me by pulling everything I was looking for life in out from under me; my friends, boyfriend, life style, all of it. He gave me the legit revelation that I was not going to find the satisfaction I was looking for in all of these things, and He started to reveal who He really is to my heart. Gosh, there’s so much more to what He did, He’s kind, I know that for sure.

I’ll wrap things up. I transferred to Clemson, the Lord provided some sweet friendships for me there with people who were genuinely after His heart. That was a gift. He started speaking to my heart about orphans, then sent me to India (on a Real Life trip) to meet them! Once I graduated I want back on the same trip to India as a leader, and then came home and spent 3 months in Nicaragua at an orphanage. The summer I came home from that the Lord confirmed that my next step was the World Race, which is an 11 month trip to 11 different countries. So I was home for a year working and fundraising. I left for the Race in June 2010 and just got back a couple of weeks ago. Whoa. What a year, Abba was ridiculous to me. He revealed so much of His character, set me free from a lot of lies, and started to speak to my heart about what it means to be His daughter, and how to live my life from that place. I’m excited about life with Him. He’s beautiful.

And now I’m going to spend the next two month in Honduras with you all! I’m excited about you guys. I'm learning to be expectant of Abba's goodness in everything, I'm practicing that by expecting to radically see it in your lives over the next few months.