The Virtuous Daughter Magazine Winter 2016/17 Edition | Page 19

Everyone around us is searching for a love that will fulfill the emptiness deep inside their soul. We, as believers, have something of great value to give them. I never completely understood this until the fall of 2015, when I was sitting in orientation at a Mission Training School. There were seven of us young people learning about the country to which we would be embarking, and I can’ t tell you enough how unreal it was. The Middle East was going to be touched with my own skin and this destination definitely was never put on my bucket list. In fact, I don’ t know that I ever even considered thinking of going to this place, but here I was. We were going to be working with ISIS refugees in a country that is struggling through war and Satan’ s strongholds on people’ s lives. I didn’ t know if I was ever going to see my family again, or if I would even return in one piece. We were told that the village we would be living in was close to dangerous territory, and that took me to a place of surrender I had never experienced before. I had absolutely no idea that God was going to take my heart, speak to it, and send me home a completely different person.