missions

note: this post was written on the ninth, i just never got to post it since i was without wifi.

i, along with the rest of my senior class, am currently embarking on my senior missions trip. it's three o'clock in the morning and almost everyone is asleep and i have time to think about what our time will be like over the next week. we are going to a place in the dominican republic that has poorer conditions than most of my class, me included, has ever experienced. we are going to be pouring out our servant's hearts that we have nurtured during our time in christian schooling. i think about the term "missions trip." missions. we are going on a mission for god. think about all the "mission impossible" movies. the secret agents are given a task to complete from someone in authority to them. we, as christians, are completing what god wants us to do, except this is not a mission that's "impossible" but one that is possible, since we have god on our side, who will strengthen us and care for us while we carry out his mission. he is sending us out to fulfill his plans for our lives. i'm excited to see how he will stretch each and every one of my classmates during the next week.