Kenya: A Journey Begins

Dear loved ones and fellow bloggers,

Two years ago in a high school classroom, God put Kenya on my heart. In my Environmental Science class, we learned about various heartbreaking issues in the country, and how they tangle together. Many Kenyans suffer due to these issues, especially the women. God began planting in me ideas and dreams and an aching need to serve Kenya.

Since then, I’ve been called to take a gap year dedicated to missions. God has used this year to grant me my dream. I’ll be spending February 26 – March 7 in Kenya!! I will be going with a group from Southeastern University, and we’ll be working with the organization 410 Bridge.  410 Bridge is an awesome organization that is devoted to teaching struggling communities how to sustain themselves. Rather than doing all of the work and creating dependency culture, they work with village leaders to recognize a need, develop a game plan, and help the community carry it out. My team and I will be going to a remote village to help a new school get stabilized, and to encourage and spend time with the community! In this next month, we will eagerly prepare ourselves for whatever we may face.

As I’ve prepared for trips in the past, and continue to prepare to serve where God leads me, I am constantly reminded of the importance of community in God’s design for us. In short, I can’t do this alone. I need the prayers and support of the people in my life to prepare me spiritually, emotionally, and financially.

A prayer I’ll greatly need for any missions trip I go on is for emotional health. I’m an emotional person, I feel things deeply, and I’ll be seeing incredible suffering. I know I’ve been called to be heartbroken for the greater good, please just pray for God’s strength in that. Please also pray for the health of my entire team. We’ll be exposed to many new and unfamiliar things, in climates and conditions we are unaccustomed to.

 God is moving in Kenya. He’s moving in me and every member of my team. There will be plenty of reason for the kingdom of Heaven to rejoice, and also plenty of reason for the devil to fight back. My team has faced our fair share of spiritual warfare already, and I’m sure in this next month and a half we will see a great deal more. Please pray for the fortification of faith in each of my team members, and also that God prepares the spiritual grounds of the people of Kenya. 

My financial needs are simple:  I need money. If you are not in a position to support me financially, I more than 100% understand. If you feel led to donate, you can make a tax deductible donation at https://www.seu.edu/giving/.  Click the “missions” option under “Giving Type” and select “Kenya-B” under “Trip Name.” If you prefer to donate by check, make the check out to Southeastern University and write “Angela Roberts – Kenya B” on the info line. Send these to:

Southeastern University
1000 Longfellow Blvd.
Lakeland, FL  33801

If you’ve made it this far into the letter, thank you. I am so thankful for your time, love, and support. If you have any further questions, I absolutely love talking about these trips, so don’t hesitate to contact me.

Blessings,
Angela Roberts ---->

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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

Dr. Seuss

ITALY : Check!

       I spent December 1-21 in Italy! I was awakened to the grimmer realities of Italy. Along with its famed romance, tourism, and history, Italy is also full of poverty, awful violence and corruption, and the shocking tragedies of human trafficking and prostitution. I participated in various kinds of community outreaches, and spent a lot of time under the wing of Mission of Light’s director. I learned so much in my three weeks there, and made some lifelong friends.

“Being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

Philippians 1:6

 

 



“Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

 

 

 

I graduated from high school on June 18, 2014.

 

 

“To speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men. For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward man, appeared, not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”

Titus 3:2-7

 

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.”

2 Timothy 4:1-2