So . . . I’m moving to Denver, Colorado in August.

Why?

Well, That’s a good story.

For the last couple of years, God has been absolutely ravaging my life in an amazing way. He breaks me down, makes me something new, changes my heart, my mind, and my goals. Part of this change is figuring out what the next step in my life looks like.

Every spring semester at the Presbyterian Student Fellowship at MTSU, before we would go on our spring break mission trip (all of those trips changed my perspective on mission and my world view, but that’s another post), some people from the Young Adult Volunteer program in Nashville would come and speak. They would talk about the program, what it’s goals were for discernment and growth and service, and about the many sites they had around the nation and the world. And every time they visited, I knew this was something I needed to do. I’m not sure how I knew this, but even at the Montreat college conference I had heard of the idea of spending time in an “intentional” service geared community, and it sparked something in my heart.

What would it be . . . to give myself fully to God? to try and learn to live every aspect of my life for God? to learn to use my whole life for God’s loving purposes?

So, I’m going to Denver. I’ll be there for at least a year through the YAV program, and I can’t wait to see what God will do in my life, and in the community where God has put me.

There was a lot of prayer, paperwork, phone interviews, and even a trip to an international placement event, but between my college graduation and now, it turns out that this is what’s next!

-grace and peace : )