The Beginning of my Journey

Finally back to my Blog... it has been several years...


Well I am on the journey toward going to live in Bangladesh!


How did this come about? Some may ask but for me it has been a long time coming.  I have wanted to go overseas to work cross culturally with under privileged or those less fortunate than me since I was 11 years old (18 years ago).  So in this Blog I will begin with my journey toward missions.  


STEP ONE (The Call / Desire to go)
When I was 11 years old at my church in Whangaparaoa they put on a day which I remember as being called 'The Journey' and what a journey it has taken me on.  We started off in a comfort zone where we had games, food and all things good.  From there we went to a mission meeting where we heard about the need for missionaries.  This started us off on the journey of the day which lead us to going to language school, getting passports, visas, money and then being blindfolded and put on a bus to an unknown destination....


We arrived at Peter Snell Youth Village which had been transformed into a new country "Kainantu".  There some people were thrown in jail, we were told we needed to learn some of the language which was a challenge in itself trying to communicate with people of another language.  It was a great experience and then we were bused back to church where they had set up examples of many different mission agencies and things we could do to be involved.


This is when I date my call to missions back to...