Why am I in Georgia?

So why Georgia? The answer to that question is fairly simple. I am in Georgia because this is where God wants me.

I finished up my 11 month mission trip (The World Race) at the end of November 2016. When I came home to Texas I felt like I shouldn’t get a job or make any big life moves until after an event called Project Searchlight. Project Searchlight (PSL) is essentially the exclamation point on your World Race experience. It is a few day event back at Adventures in Missions where they help you sort through common issues with coming home, and present to you many new opportunities to continue on with Adventures in Missions.

I had felt called to remain still until after PSL, but that didn’t happen. I eventually got impatient and began searching for a place of my own to live and a job. I found a job in Ft. Worth delivering lumber and plywood. It was a good job and I enjoyed it. Meanwhile I still had that “gut feeling” that I shouldn’t make any plans until after PSL.

I continued to work all the way up until Project Searchlight (PSL), and this is where God chose to reveal why he wanted me to remain still. At PSL a few things happened that revealed the next steps for me. One of those revelations came from God granting my wish/desire to find a mentor. I had expressed my desire to find a mentor to God and only to God. So when a man approached me and said he was interested in mentoring me I immediately knew it was God answering my prayers. Something else that happened was CGA (Center For Global Action) which is Adventures in Missions Discipleship/Leadership program. I had considered joining this program while I was still on the race but hadn’t really put much thought into it. So when I began considering signing up I told God that if CGA was something he wanted me to do, He would have to make it extremely obvious to me. Well he did. I received an email congratulating me on my acceptance to CGA. While that sounds completely normal, it wasn’t because i hadn’t even applied yet. So God answered my prayers through a potential mentor and somehow I was accepted into a program that I had not even applied for.

Now I know that I can sometimes be a stubborn man, but this was too obvious for me to ignore. I then knew I was supposed to move to Gainesville, Georgia and Pursue CGA. So over the next few weeks I had to quit my job, get rid of all the stuff that wouldn’t fit in my vehicle, and head East. That process at times was stressful and intimidating but I knew i was making the right decision.

I hope that answers the question “Why Georgia?” sufficiently. In my next blog I will cover “What”. What am I doing? What is CGA? What is next?

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