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Instead of going to college next year.... / 08.17.09, 03:00 PM
Hey everyone! For those of you who don’t know me and just happened upon this blog, I am 18, I graduated high school in 2008 and just received my Associates degree this winter quarter. I love all forms of art, folk/indie music, the Arabic language, and most of all… Jesus! I have a passion for service and social justice and am excited to try out community living.
If you’re reading this blog you probably already know something about my plans for 2009-2010. Last September as I approached the last few quarters of my time at Bellevue Community College and started making plans about what I would do next, I came across the website for Mission Year. The idea of spending a year in service to some of the poorest communities in the US immediately caught my interest and I think I read every single page of the website in one sitting.. and then read it all again the next day. After a few months I decided to register, after talking about it with my parents, emailing some of the staff with questions, and praying about it.
I hope to learn how to live in community with other believers, understand the viewpoint of the poor, and be able to translate my love for Jesus into purposefully living to serve others. I want to be challenged and pushed out of my comfort zone. I have become so dissatisfied with our culture and the way I see myself conform to its ideas of consumerism and “every man for himself.” I know that isn’t the way Jesus has called me to live and I think Mission Year is a great way to take the time to focus on being counter-cultural and just seeing loving God and others as my main goal in life. I can’t wait for this fall and all the things I will learn as I go through this year, and I hope any of you who read this will enjoy going through them with me!
I don’t know how much I will write here, but you can also follow my other blog at www.kimberlyrixon.blogspot.com
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