For the Sake of the Call

In less than a month from now I'll be on a plane leaving all that I know in America and headed to South America to spend two months living in a Peruvian village called San Jose de Quero. I'll go from seeing my amazing boyfriend Andy every day to hearing his voice on a phone for about 45 minutes once a week. I'll trade the flatness of Florida for an elevation of 13,000 feet. Instead of my cozy apartment ( the teepee), I'll be living in a hostel. I'll be speaking a foreign language, eating foods I may or may not want to know what it is I'm eating, and embracing a culture completely different than my own.

Why am I doing all of this?

It's for the sake of the call.

God's love radically changed my life nearly six years ago. I went from being an insecure, depressed girl to someone who found her identity in the fact that a God loved her enough to lay down His life to save her from her mistakes. I don't know what to do with a love like that other than telling the world about it. I know that God has called me here, and I will go to the ends of the earth for the sake of the call.

There was another call that called me here. That call was none other than Jesus Christ, who came not to condemn the world but to save it (John 3:17). For the sake of the call, Christ abandoned the riches of heaven to rely on two teenagers for shelter, food and love. He traded the praises of the angels for the taunting of His creation as they beat Him. He died a death so brutal that His corpse looked like an animal to bear the punishment I could not. But then He rose from the dead, conquered the grave, and offers new life to all who believe. He whispers the secret of freedom, "Give up all that you are for the sake of the call."

I'm scared of leaving the comforts of my home in a few weeks to live with the Quechua people of Peru for two months. I don't want to leave Andy, whom I love, or my sister Melissa, who is my best friend. But there is no greater joy than to share the joy that I have with people who don't know it.

The sake of the call is worth it.

Please pray for Sam, Andrew, Christina and I (my teammates) as we share the Story with the Quechua people of Peru!