The call and confirmations

Every Summer since I was 11 I have been to this Christian camp called Newday. It was here that God revealed some plans he had for my life.

Like I said I felt called to go and mission somewhere but didn't know where or what I would be doing, so I prayed about it and a few countries came into my head because I was trying to think about where it could be, then when I stopped thinking about it The Ukraine popped into my head. I had never heard of it before so I researched it on the internet. I found out where it was in Europe, the main religion, about the culture and the people. It all sounded like a pretty decent place to live, the main religion was Christianity, the people didn't look  that poor, I thought 'well, I don't know why God wants me to go here, it doesn't seem like anything needs changing!' Typical me not to look at the whole country, I was only looking at the 'comfortable' places in The Ukraine. The Ukraine, like most countries, have their poorer areas and their more affluent areas. Also, mission work doesn't just need to be helping poor people, richer people have needs as well and it's not just the poor who don't know Christ. So I prayed and asked God to show me if The Ukraine is definitely my "mission" ground. The answer came back quickly, a few weeks later, I went to my nanny's (grandma's) house and turned on the television and there was a programme about the world's strongest boy- who was a Ukrainian!!! Then, within that month, I was in my car and I picked up a book which belonged to my dad, the first sentence said something about a Russian-Ukrainian church!!! THEN, I was in my school assembly and they were talking about leadership and a picture of the Ukrainian Prime Minister came up in a power point slide!!! So that's how I knew.


Then, this January, I started to have doubts about it, even after those confirmations so I prayed again, on the internet I typed in the definition of "The Ukraine",  I clicked on the second thing that came up, it said " The earliest translation of The Ukraine means 'The land chosen out for us by God'. Well, if that didn't convince me I don't know what did!


So that's how I knew the place, although I still didn't have a clue about what I would be doing there, until a few weeks ago. I went to this camp, Newday, and I was in a meeting one evening and the preach was about church planting and going to the nations, a lady came up and prayed with me, I wasn't paying much attention t what she was praying because I was praying my own prayer but the one word that I did hear was "Orphans". Upon hearing that, I burst into tears, wanting to reach out and help little children who had no one to look after them. When the worship was over, we sat down and someone in the meeting of about 7000(!) threw a paper aeroplane at me and my friend, it read 'Jeremiah 49:10-11' It is a really random verse which wouldn't make sense if you randomly picked up a bible and hadn't read the whole of Jeremiah, and even though I haven't read the whole of Jeremiah it made sense to me because it said something about taking care of your orphans. So I am pretty sure I am supposed to help in an orphanage or help orphans or something. I don't think it's saying that I'm supposed to adopt though, but hey, who knows. Anyway, that's the latest on the Mission on Ukraine, but right now, I have a mission field right here at home. My school. With no names attached because I won't be giving out personal information, me and my friend will be praying for Conversations with our friends and opportunities to help people. So I will keep you posted on that as well as any updates on The Ukraine and my life, which at the moment is really boring because I am stuck at home in the countryside, while it's pouring down with rain and I have seen the same people for the past 3 days!! Bring on the Sunshine!!!