Hello Everybody! Can you believe that we will finally meet each other in only a few short weeks? God has had this planned for considerably longer than we have. It's about time his plan is made manifest!

 

I'm Jessey. Next week I will turn 20, I live in New Hampshire, I love to run, and oh boy do I love the Lord. This year I should have been a sophomore at Stonehill College in Massachusetts as a history major and a secondary ed minor. However, my plan was apparently not God's plan. Due to some trivial errors in my financial aid paperwork, I have been home this year.

 

In August when I first learned that I couldn't return to school, I immediately looked for a missions trip to fill my time without academic obligation. Nothing really struck me, though, so I gave up on the idea. In January I began to look again, but again nothing struck me, so again I gave up. Then one day I saw an ad for AIM on facebook and checked out the website. First I saw the trip to Kenya and asked to receive more information. But then, I saw the glorious little word "Israel" and my heart leaped with joy! I had no doubt that this trip was how I wanted to spend June 2010. God has been preparing me for this trip, just as you all say he has been doing for you. Last summer I worked at a Jewish summer camp where I developed a love for the Jewish people and culture. Talking with the Israeli Jews I knew that I wanted desperately to go there someday. In December my friend told me that she would be spending this current semester studying in Jerusalem! She and I skype and she writes to me every few weeks to tell me all about her experiences. My heart has been longing for Israel.

 

And we are all going together! I can't wait to meet you in Georgia to prepare for this beautiful ministry.

 

Here is a passage that has carried me through the past weeks:

"And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me-the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace." --Acts 20:22-24

 

Peace :)