In May, I’ll be going on a missions trip to Costa Rica with some girls from my college. We had our first team meeting this afternoon. It seems odd to think that, by the end of May, I ‘ll know the girls that I met this afternoon on such a deep, intimate emotional level because of situations we’ll have shared by then. Right now I’m just trying to remember their names…
Elizabeth, who’s from Michigan. Bryn, who lives off campus. Sarah, who’s a nursing major like me, but who’s a freshman. Beth, who plays soccer and doesn’t like to be called Elizabeth, even though that’s what her name’s short for. Linley, who’s in my Old Testament class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. There is room for 10 of us to go to Costa Rica. Eight signed up for the trip and six of us made the meeting.
It was good to sit down and meet with Patti as a group. She seems so nice, and very competent. I’m excited to have her as our team leader, and I liked her the first time I met her… way back when I was covering as the secretary in the Financial Aid office this summer. Patti works in the President’s office, which is housed in the same building as the Financial suite in which I spent last summer camped out in my cubicle. Anyway, Patti says that this is our trip; she’ll help us, but we’re supposed to plan it and take it where we want it to go. Of the six of us who showed up tonight, not a one of us has ever been on a missions trip before. We’ve no idea what we’re doing.
I’m still worried that I’ll be of no use to the girls on The Farm, which is essentially a rehab center for adolescent girls who’ve been sold into prostitution to pay for their parents’ drug habits. What do I know about what they’ve gone through? Compared to them, I am ridiculously sheltered and my life has been so comfortable. But then I suppose that to say things like that is limiting God; He will use me however He sees fit, and He wouldn’t have stuck me on this team if He didn’t have something in mind.
I wonder what season it will be in Costa Rica when we arrive in May, and if we could plant a garden with the girls on the The Farm…
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