We are called to something so much greater than ourselves.  We have the potential to truly CHANGE the WORLD.  But are we WILLING to take that step, are we willing to dream dreams bigger than ourselves, dreams that only God can make into reality?

Before I even hit highschool, God gave me a dream, a passion, a purpose, to reach the world with HIS love, with HIS hope, and with HIS salvation.  But what does that look like?  How was I, a girl growing up on a Missouri farm, whose family rarely left the state, going to reach the world.  Well, thats where God comes in. . .

Fast forward a few years to my final year of college.  It wasn’t my first international mission trip, but it was my first time in Africa, which by the way, is my favorite place in the world aside from home.  God had built up that small dream, and had sent me to places I’d only dreamed about Ecuador, Panama, Bali, India, Belize, Mexico. Places where my passion and purpose in life became real, became touchable.  I was reaching people with God’s love, hope, and salvation. I was making a DIFFERENCE in this world. And the funny thing is, these people I met, they reached me too.   They filled me with God’s love, hope, and salvation.  HE became real, HE became my rock.

But it was in Burkina Faso, West Africa, that those pieces of my dreams, my passions, my purpose began to fit into a complete puzzle.  A puzzle that I wasn’t so sure I was up to, wasn’t sure I could handle, I still don’t know if I can.  But I know that God can.  The idea behind International Blessings came to life in Burkina Faso.  My dream had a name, it had a possibility that I hadn’t known before.  But I still struggled, I didn’t believe in it enough, I didn’t believe in myself enough, and so my dream sat for a few more years.

Then I went on the World Race. . .