Stories from Youth In Mission 2010

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’It’s all about love in India.’ As my team and I were driving up the mountains one day in Kotigin, India our site coordinator said this to me. I couldn’t get it out of my mind. The hospitality and love shown to us as strangers to India was indescribable. Never have I seen more passion, harder workers and the power of love more emphasized than I did in India. The love of the country and the love of God brought healing to my hurting heart.”
Courtney Clymer – India

“Through my summer with Youth In Mission, God taught me about having passion and urgency for His cause. Removing myself from a self-constructed and culturally-aided bubble revealed the enormity of the world’s need. I could no longer change the channel from a sad news story; I was living with people in desperate circumstances. Believers we came into contact with sacrificed everything to bring those in need closer to the feet of Jesus. God really challenged me to surrender my plans to His will, no matter what.”
Paige Watson – Ivory Coast

“God taught me about the ministry of being, which means that you are with the people doing what they do everyday while being who God made you. I learned the importance of scripture in my personal growth. In order to grow more, I must continue to spend each day in the Word.”
Katie Schuman – Senegal

“One of our daily ministries was prayer walking. We would set aside time everyday to take a walk around the neighborhood and just pray for the residents of the area or anyone we saw or talked to. We also prayed for everyone we met, by name, a few times a week. The more we prayed for people, the more I began to realize that the interactions we had with people were probably not coincidences. There was this sense that our encounters were God-ordained. This type of ministry made me much more aware of the daily opportunities I have to share the love of Christ with others just by the way I live my everyday life.”
Lauren Glidden – Italy

“One week in Transylvania we were blessed to be a part of some children's lives. The kids were beautiful beyond description. After our first day with them, they would run to greet us with open arms every time they saw us. Soon after, they would stand outside the church gate and scream our names at the church building, just hoping we would come out and be with them. The children's passion and persistence to be with us reminds us what God has been teaching us about our need for him. The children did not seem to care what we were doing. We could be playing football, painting rocks, puppeteering, or praying. It did not matter. They just wanted to be with us. Through these children, we can remember that our greatest desire should be companionship with the Creator. It does not matter what activity He has us doing. This is the vision. We received a great blessing that week and hope our planted seeds will reap an abundant harvest.”
Debi Miller - Romania