Be Courageous this summer and change lives in Haiti like Molly.

This summer I went on a life changing mission trip to Haiti with Global Expeditions. I’ve grown up in a Christian home and been able to turn to God for most everything. There have been times, however, when Satan has really tried hard to turn my trust away from the Lord. Lately, I’ve felt like I need to put so much stock in how people look at me. I strive to be liked and accepted, but you know what? Jesus Christ died for me and accepted me before I was even seeking acceptance. Before I was even born.

For seventeen years, I’ve struggled with loving others and accepting love from anyone, especially God. Before going to Haiti in the summer of 2012, our team really prayed for Jesus to expand our hearts and our capability of love. Wow, my prayers were answered and more. Upon meeting the Haitians, I immediately fell in love with the people. My heart actually even legitimately broke at one point for a child that I had felt God calling me to. I learned that if I, who have always struggled with loving and with extreme jealousy, could have so much love for these people, then I need to accept that God feels that much love for me. Times a million.

I began to look at even my team in a new light. The judgments I had made on people faded away and I felt compassion for each and every one. The Lord taught me how to love and why to love. Most importantly, He began working with me to allow His love to come in. He is knocking on my door, loving me every second of every day, and finally I am opening that door and letting Him in.

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Be Courageous this summer and change lives in Haiti like Alyssa.

This summer I went on a life changing mission trip with Global Expeditions. Visiting Haiti was incredible. I’ve always wanted to open an orphanage there so I decided it was time for me to go. When we arrived in Haiti, I was so overwhelmed. I didn’t know how God was going to use me, but I was excited to get started. After hours of construction, prayer, worship, and children’s ministry, God had touched my heart in so many ways. I was prepared to see unhappy, broken people in Haiti. What I saw were people rejoicing in the love of Jesus despite their circumstances. They attended church in shacks half covered with tarp. The children worshiped God with such passion that you could feel the presence of the Lord moving. I long to have the heart of the children there: to worship despite everything. The Lord moved in incredible ways in Haiti. I am so blessed and so happy that I chose Haiti.

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Be courageous this summer and change lives in Peru like Hannah

This summer I went on a mission trip to Peru with Teen Mania’s Global Expeditions. The trip was better than I had expected it to be. After doing our drama in the market place my Ministry group went to see who we could pray for. We came upon this woman and her little boy and we asked her if there was anything that we could pray for her about. She was deaf and could not talk,we prayed for her and after the prayer we asked her if she could hear and she could hear! That was the second day of ministry. On our trip we saw many healing’s /miracles.

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Be Courageous this summer and change lives in Guatemala like Heather.

This summer I went on a mission trip with Global Expeditions. I’ve felt called to Guatemala as long as I’ve heard stories from when my uncle visited his friends there annually when I was a child. I finally worked up the guts to do something about it one night and I told my mom that I was going to start giving guitar lessons or something to raise money to go to Guatemala. within a few hours a friend of mine called and asked me if I wanted to go on a missions trip. Needless to say, I started raising money soon after. God totally showed up from that very first phone call all the way to the plane ride back to the states. I always knew He was real, but never fully grasped His love or power till I had to look strangers in the eye and tell them that the only thing I had to offer was the Truth. In English. God moved through language barriers and disbelief. Because I didn’t understand all that was being said in Spanish I asked God to tell me specific needs and people who needed prayer. I was going to go treasure hunting. He showed me a vision of a woman in a blue dress, holding a young boy, standing in a doorway of a home in a small village. He also told me the word ‘back’. so I asked my friend what back was in spanish so I could ask what was wrong with her back if I ever met her. The trip went on and we ministered to hundreds of children and their families, then at the very last ministry site we were tearing stuff down and handing out candy and I saw the woman from my vision just standing holding a small boy in the middle of everyone but not talking to anyone. waiting for God. I remembered how to ask if there was something I could pray with her about. family, work, health? and she said “si, si, si!” and then said a lot of words I didn’t understand. I quickly called my friend over to help translate and it turns out that her son’s back had been very badly burned 4 months ago and they couldn’t afford treatment. the scars were terrible. our prayers were fierce and God moved. healing in the name of Jesus! PRAISE GOD!!!

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Be Courageous this summer and change lives in Guatemala like Spenser.

I just went on my first mission trip to Guatemala this summer with Global Expeditions. The 3rd day of the trip we went to an orphanage near the dump called the potter house. There was a kid there that looked pretty sad, but I cannot speak Spanish to save my life. Well I go and pray for the kid who thinks I can understand him and he tells me his whole life story. It was something like; “My parents are both dead they passed away a couple years ago and this place is all I have left” After he told me that he repeated it in English so i can understand. I instantly felt  loving compassion for this kid. He pulled out a dollar coin and said “This is all I have.” I noticed throughout the day there was a kid that kept pushing him around and bullying him. So I prayed for that kid also. But the first kid I prayed for was very into our VBS, I know to this very day he  is still pursuing God strongly. His name was Samuel Ricardo Velasco. Please pray for him.

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Be Courageous this summer and change lives in Romania like Justine.

This summer I went on a life changing mission trip to Romania with Global Expeditions. This lady in a gypsy village asked us to pray for her daughter and I really felt that God was telling me to ask her if there was anything else she wanted us to pray about. So I asked my translator to ask her and the lady told us that she thought that her mother was possessed because she kept on chewing on wires and wanting to kill herself. We actually didn’t pray for her mother ourselves but our project directors did. We asked them what happened later on and they told us that while they were praying they felt pressure building up and it became very intense. Then, all of the sudden, it died down and there was total peace. The lady was calmer and there was more happiness in her eyes. That’s just a small glimpse of God’s redeeming love.

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Be Courageous this summer and change lives in New York like Shelly.

This summer I went to New York with Global Expeditions.
When I got to New York I knew I was supposed to be there and the frist ministry day there was this 14 year old girl named Jassca and she was telling me how she hated the people where she lived and that they were so mean they would make fun of her and call her ugly. Then her mom came over and I asked if she liked it in New York and she said she loved it and I looked at Jassca and she stoped talking and and got very uncomfortable. I told her that she was so pretty and she looked at me with her brown eyes and said thanks and her mom grabbed her and walked away.
Jassca will always be in my heart.

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Be Courageous this summer and change lives in Haiti like Sierra.

This summer I went on a life changing mission trip with Global Expeditions. I didn’t really feel a connection with any of the kids at first but one day I was taking a break from lifting cement and concrete and as I was walking over to get water I saw a leg sticking out from behind the stairs so I said ‘bonjour’. It was a little boy and he was just sitting there while all the other kids were with the other missionaries, he was really shy. I heard him say ‘photo’, I said ‘me and you photo?’ and he just started to smile, I could see the excitement  in his eyes. He then took my phone and began to take pictures of all objects around and he would not leave my side. I told him:  ’Sed jezi renmen ou’,  which means ‘Jesus loves you’  in Creole. I asked him if he loved Jesus and he shook his head yes. I then got to pray for him before going back to work . After that moment I felt so happy and kept thanking Jesus for bringing that joy into my life. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of him and wish I was back holding him in my arms. God really moved in Haiti!

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Be Courageous this summer and change lives in Haiti like Hannah.

I went on my first mission trip this summer with Global Expeditions. I went to Haiti and had the time of my life. When we were doing VBS for the first time we went through some villages and gathered up the kids. we were walking out of one of the villages on a muddy road. I looked behind me and saw a little girl running up to me, she grabbed my hand and said she wanted to go learn about Jesus. her name was Wiznalley and she was 4 years old. She stole my heart and now I am forever in Haiti. I plan to go to Haiti every summer until I graduate and then I plan to become a full time missionary and live there and open an orphanage. This trip has changed my life forever.

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