Getting Ready!

So, at the request of my grandmother (love it!), and for all of my friends and family who have requested to stay updated, I am going to keep a blog during my time in Ecuador. Currently, I am in the process of packing and getting everything together to leave on Friday. I am getting excited about this year!

For those who do not know, I am going to spend a year down at the Hacienda of Hope (children's home) in Tabacundo, Ecuador. My primary role will be teaching English in the bilingual school on the property, but I will also be living with our girls at the Hacienda and helping the house parents before and after school.

I am excited about what God is going to do this year, and appreciate all of the prayers, love, and encouragement that I have received from my friends and church family. I love all of you very much, and your support means the world to me. My prayer for this year is that God be glorified in every situation. Remember 1 Corinthians 2:1-5--"And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God." Praise God!