On February 15th
my dad and I will be traveling to Haiti, the poorest country in the western
hemisphere. In my public jr. high school
there is a major project that needs to be completed by all eighth graders. The project must either represent a college or
a career you may be interested in. You
may be surprised to find out that I chose to do my project on the career of a
missionary. I chose this because of my
past missions trip experiences which have impacted me greatly. One of
the trips that impacted me the most is when my whole family went to Haiti in
the summer of 2009 when I was only nine years old. I was able to use my own money to purchase a
goat for a family in need (See the "Brittany Gives A Goat" video below). At that
moment I was hooked on serving others. Their happy faces and the knowledge that
the goat actually made a measurable difference in the health and financial
provision for their family touched my heart.
I know that there are many families in the world like that one, and I
can’t think of doing anything better with my life than helping more families like
them.
I am not only required
to research and write a paper (which I have already done), but I am also
required to give a twenty minute presentation on a field experience with the
career. It has been my hope ever since we returned
from Haiti to go back, see my Haitian friends, meet new ones, and get the
chance to serve again. Now I have a
unique opportunity to not only return, but to share that experience with others
at my public school. Most of all I am
hoping that the experience will help solidify God’s call on my life to be a
missionary, and clarify who he wants me to serve and how he would like me to
serve.
One of the things very
close to my heart is serving children.
It breaks my heart to see the little toddlers that I work with at my church cry, let
alone to think of the many children who need just basic sustenance in
Haiti. I hope to once again see up close
and personal the great needs of the children in Haiti in a community that is still
unreached. I also hope to meet and build
relationships with people in that community, brainstorm ideas and solutions for
starting a nutrition center in that community, and then implement a plan to
finance and support a nutrition center which will address the great needs of that
community.
