My Time With Aim

I sit & gaze up at a mountainous sky and I don’t know where to start.

 

• In December of 2005,  I decided to go to England with AIM as an FYM.  From then on I worked hard to support raise and get myself prepared.
• In September 2006, I went to Georgia for the best and worst two weeks of my life. Living in tents, being eaten by fire ants, getting rained on every other day, tromping around in the mud. Being assaulted with things I have never heard of before and being challenged and pushed spiritually, and on top of it all meeting nine new people that I would spend the next nine months with.
• From Georgia I went to England where I worked as a missionary from Mid-September to early May, with a month home for Christmas. During my time in England I dealt with and grieved many things that I hadn’t had the time or freedom to before. In December I got really bad excema, that is still a problem to this day. Then in March, from all the stress and work I developed bad acid reflex and had to have a restricted diet and still watch carefully what I eat.
• The Summer of 2007 I was home deciding whether to go to Georgia and be an intern in the AIM office or go to school in Des Monies. I choose Georgia and worked at Walmart for the remainder of the summer to earn some money.
• I worked in the Office from September 2007 to June 2008. I helped out in the admissions department where I did a little bit of everything.  The first semester was pretty tough, but after that I enjoyed working and helping AIM out and getting to know their participants.
• While I was in Georgia one of the many tasks I was assigned was to recruit leaders for the 2008 FYM program. During that process I decided that was something that I would be interested in doing.
• Since September I’ve been in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. My role has basically been as an R.A. (which I say stands for Relational Assistant.) I got toliet paper, hand soap, did room checks (made sure their rooms were clean, did curfew checks, discipled two girls, helped lead a small group, lead a ministry team who ministered at 7th Heaven children’s haven & helped organize logsitics and drive students around.

As you can tell I have been busy for a long time. At the end of this semester I evaluated what kind of spiritual, emotional and physical health I ws in to continue leading in South Afirca. I have come to the conclusion that I need to take some time for myself, get refreshed. I love the students that I was working with, and would have loved to continue on with what I was doing but I did not feel that was what God had called me to do. I love AIM and would love to work with them again at some point, but right now it just isn’t the right fit.