In the Light of the Dawn

If you read my last post, I quickly mentioned that I will be working videography for the Baptist Campus Ministry in NC this summer.  I thought I would share a little bit about that and the bigger picture behind it.

Originally I wasn’t planning on doing that this summer.  At first I was planning on going to Los Angeles for a summer mission trip. Now before you go “what the heck were you thinking?! Not going to LA?!”, I did the same thing. It was barely a few days after I got back from Peru that I was presented the LA opportunity.  I was still on a Mission Work/Jesus adrenaline rush so I instantly started considering it.  But the longer I thought about it the longer I begin to think that that wasn’t what God had planned for me this summer.

In the back of a truck leaving Matucana

While away in a foreign country, after you have left everything behind in your homeland, you begin to really discover who you are.  I was able to spend plenty of time meditating with God about what his will is for my life and what my abilities mean to me.  I quickly begin to understand that my love for art and creative thinking wasn’t just a hobby.  I felt that God had a purpose and a way that he could use that to broaden his kingdom.  So I began to contemplate what that might look like.

By the end of my Peru trip, my wish was to try and explore art ministries and do something where I felt my gifts and abilities would be more useful. Moving forward to LA, the more I thought about it the more I started to think that maybe that wasn’t where I was suppose to be this summer.  Shortly after I declined the offer, I was presented with the videographer position and I instantly noticed something about it.  It was an artistic position.  The more I thought and prayed over it the more I started to think that this was where God wanted me to be this summer.

A month or two later and heaven knows how many pieces of paperwork later, I have the position and I am really excited about it.  Even though it will mostly be siting at a computer working, I still believe that it will have a more profound impact, if not on others on my own life.

Please be in prayer for me and all my friends.  We’re covering all the corners of the earth…literally! I have friends going to…

-Alaska
-Canada (two friends)
-LA (at least six friends)
-Kenya (already there)
-South Africa
-Some staying in NC
-Guatemala
-South Asia

There are probably more but I am so sorry I can’t remember them. Some of them are blogging so if I can find their blogs then I will add them to my list of friends to the left.