Confirmation to do Missions Full Time

I love how God uses many different ways to speak to us about His plan for the path that we are meant to be on at a particular moment, and how when He speaks it, it resonates deep in your heart and brings so much peace. Well, that's exactly what happened for me on Friday, July 20, 2007 while in the bush of Ewasu, Kenya.

I was on a short-term mission trip with Adventures in Missions and we had just arrived that afternoon in Ewasu after leaving the slum of Kibera where we had been teaching in a school the first part of the week. Immediately upon our arrival in Ewasu we were greeted by the children and a game of soccer quickly ensued.....we of course lost and it was memorable for me because I ripped my skirt, exposing my behind to everyone! After a few games of soccer the kids headed home before the sun set and the animals would start roaming for the night. For the next hour the team decided to use the time we had for personal reflection / quiet time. Before I left on this trip to Kenya, my friends had compiled a set of cards for me to read everyday that I was gone, so on this day I started my time off by reading one of those cards. As I read the card I began to cry, and I knew that the reason I was crying was because God was speaking to me in a very personal way.

Inside the card was the following scripture:

Thus says God the Lord,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the Earth and its offspring,
who gives breath to the people on it and Spirit to those who walk in it,
"I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness,
I will also hold you by the hand and watch over you,
and I will appoint you as a covenant to the people,
as a light to the nations,
to open blind eyes, to bring prisoners out from the dungeon
and those who dwell in darkness from the prison.
I am the Lord, that is my name;
I will not give my glory to another,
nor my praise to a graven image.
Behold, the former things have come to pass,
now I declare new things;
before they spring forth I proclaim them to you."
Isaiah 42:5-9

I read these verses several times, and prayed, and God just said: " You do have a calling and it will be to take my truth to those I send you to." And at that moment, it wasn't said, but I knew that my calling would include some of the most desolate areas in the world. God confirmed my calling that day to be a missionary full-time and revealed that for a little while that it will be completed on an international level.