How God Has Called Me

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Just one experience is hard to narrow down at this point in my life. So, I am choosing to write about how God has called me. I have always been interested in faith and the whole ‘God thing’ since I was a child. My parents were never interested or was involved in church, it was something that I sought out on my own. I always attended various churches whenever I was invited by friends. I started going to Awanas when I was about 8. It wasn’t until I was in high school that I found my own place. I was a freshman and I had the same friends since 2nd grade that happens when you grow up in a town as small as ours. My good friend Megan starting dragging me along to youth group because her dad was the new youth director and so from obligation she…show more content…
That is when it hit me. This is real, this whole ‘God Thing’ is real. I was a witness to a man called by God to create a space and an opportunity to reach what would be thousands of kids and get them to know who our God is. That is when my life changed, I wanted to do that. Fast forward through high school and to the season of young adult life beginning. I got a call from a friend of mine that was in desperate need for a female counselor for her Christian church camp and if they couldn’t find someone camp would be canceled. My hesitation was high, this is something I had no experience with, to be honest I didn’t really care for middle school kids and a full week is a long time. Something was pulling at my heart telling me that I was needed and this is where I was supposed to be. I went and that was the next step of my faith journey that I needed to take in order to keep moving forward to find the call God had put on my life. So there I was with 50 middle school children for one whole week in one of the most beautiful places in existence and I knew that I had found a new home. God had placed me there to plant roots for what was to come. Camp gave me an open door to what is now my church home in the Methodist community. I severed three years with mid-high camp and then life happened. I found my husband and we began a family. God placed the church in my life when he did, I believe, to have
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