preparar

I actually set this up a month ago but am just now taking the first step as a blogger. I've been putting this off because 1) my computer is deadly slow; I feel as if sometimes it and I are having a staring match and 2) I have no idea how to take the first step as a blogger with writing the first blog. So skipping the whole process of writing a captivating intro I want to lay out my purpose for this blog, plain and simple.
I am going to Buenos Aires, Argentina. About 8 months ago I felt a very strong desire to seek out an overseas experience. In a very real way I experienced the Lord placing this desire on my heart as a way to challenge my complacent world view and challenge me with a growing experience. Thus I applied to go as a participant on a Servant Team with the organization Word Made Flesh (wordmadeflesh.org). Word Made Flesh is an organization that seeks to take the love of Jesus to the poorest areas around the world. A Servant Team is one means by which they do that. For 4 months I, along with 3 other servant team participants and a team of 5 staff permanently stationed in the city, will be ministering to street youth in the city of Buenos Aires.
No doubt this will be an experience that will make a mark on the map of my life... I feel that confirmed almost daily as I make my preparations for this journey. These past couple months I have spent, not only moving and adjusting from living with my sister's family in Indiana to living with friends in the Cincinnati area but also, embarking on the journey of prepartaion. I am, by nature, not a planner so all these preparations tend to be overwhelming. But even now I am learning through this process; learning how to manage my time and resources and most importantly learning the reoccuring lesson of trusting God. My purpose in beginning this blog now, before I arrive in Buenos Aires, is to highlight the trek I am on in preparing for the big step ahead of me. I intend to focus the next month's blog entries on what I am experiencing as I prepare for my trip.
So, more to come.

El una que Dios ve