Isaiah 58:10-- If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness and your night will become like the noonday.
Today is new beginning for me: my first real day of interning for Bryan House.
Bryan House is an organization that assists refugee families from all over the world to pull themselves out of poverty through homeownership. Bryan House is a five apartment building complex on the Westside of Aurora. The families will pay monthly rent that will be set aside toward a down payment of home. The goal is to have refugees purchase a home of their own in a year. I’m excited to meet future families that will build great community within the walls of Bryan House.
Coming into my freshmen year here at North Central, I expected to work toward a degree, play sports and make life long friends. All of that has happened and so much more. My freshmen year, I participated in an Emerging Leadership Series which led me to get involved with World Relief and become a friendship partner. Desiree Guzman, North Central Assistant Ministry and Service Director, then worked for World Relief and was the person who introduced me to my Turkish family. Toward the end of my sophomore year, I applied for the Kenya Service trip that Desiree was leading. From previous blogs one can see that I was greatly changed by that experience. In Africa, I prayed for a way to stay connected to Africans and be able to help people in some way after returning home. Bryan House was officially purchased December 18th, 2007 and here I am.
I often am impatient with the Lord for not understanding His plans for me. I want to have my own agenda and set it in motion. I am slowly becoming aware of how things are suppose to work; that I need to work within His game plan on His timing. And if I do that everything will be as it should.
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Good for people to know.
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