MY STORY

 

Dear friends and family,

 

I have some exciting news to share with you! But first, let me tell you how I got here.

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Sitting and absorbing the good, beauty, and truth around me has been a ritual all my life. Early on, I recall my mom carving out time to read to my siblings and me. She carefully chose the object of our reading time to reflect on things we were learning about the world, God, and His love. I recall with fondness the stories of missionaries and their daring work in parts of the world I had not yet heard of, along with the impact of their work and desire to carry out the Great Commission. Volumes of missionary newsletters lay on our coffee table, ripe for the realization of how these stories needed to be told. I was encouraged to pray for these, my brothers and sisters in Christ, and those who still had not heard the name of Jesus. These stories were an invitation to participate in God’s work, even if it looked different from these missionaries’ lives.

 

As I grew up I plunged into reading and listening to Christian nonfiction and God paired that with a love for writing that I discovered in high school through a class I took. I marveled at how careful attention to wording and structure played a significant role in how a story reads. I was encouraged to hear of how my brothers and sisters around the world overcame obstacles with God’s grace and became witnesses to His power and holiness in both extraordinary and simply ordinary ways. The genre of journalistic writing as storytelling became my favorite out of all that I had buried my nose in.

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​This led me to major in Communications at Moody Bible Institute. During my time here,