Five years ago, God put it on my heart to go the mission field. Unfortunately, I said no! Gasp! I know right. Saying no to God! Yet, He kept tugging on my heart about it every moment for a week until I finally said yes. This was during my freshman year at Bible College. After I had finally said yes, there was a chapel message that afternoon about how God calls us somewhere just to see if we are willing to go. I thought, yep, that’s what He is doing to me. So, I gave up on the idea of going to the mission field. That summer I went home, and God began to start tugging on my heart again about missions. I was confused, I didn’t know what He was doing. That summer I had a friend who was Hispanic, her name is Anna Gaona, I don’t know if you remember her from reading an earlier blog post she did on my blog page. Anyways, I would go over to her house almost every day, and I was like a part of the family. I begin to pick up on more Spanish words as well as grow to love the Hispanic people more. Summer came to an end, and I ended up going back to Bible College. I had new roommates that year and I was excited. We all ended up being very close to each other. There were four of us, and out of the four of us. Two of us lived closed to each other. It was a small world after all. They were the first to hear of my calling to missions. So, when it came time for me to take off some time from college because of finance reasons; my roommate asked if I wanted to drive down with her to Texas. She said that she would look out for me. She just so happened to be Hispanic, and I would join her at her church. Her church had both English and Spanish church. In which I was a part of both, but I loved the Spanish church more. So, that is where I would spend most of my time. I learned a lot of Spanish songs on the Spanish bus route. I would sit in the Spanish services every morning. I even got the chance to sing a song in Spanish church. I just loved it so much. One day, I told my friend that I thought that God was still calling me to missions. She replied, “Where do you think he’s calling you?” I said, “I don’t know, but I think it’s a Spanish country.” That night we had started our missions conference, and I remember going to church early to help out with some things. I remember that there was this older gentlemen who had approached me. Out of respect, I spoke to him in Spanish. He said, ”Wow! Are you one of the missionaries?” I said no. He then replied with this, ”Well you should become one. Your Spanish is really good!” I didn’t confide in anyone else other than my old roommate about what God was doing in my heart. And I was just so amazed to see how God was using what that man said to confirm what He was doing in my heart. Sadly though, I still had my doubts. I ended up going back to bible college. I changed my major from music to general, because I didn’t know what the future had for me. I worked very hard in every aspect of my college life, and God was doing the same in my heart for missions. Before college had started that year, I was a bridesmaid in a wedding of an old friend of mine. I met her soon to be in laws at the wedding. They were very nice people. I found out that they were starting an orphanage, and they could really use the help. I asked where. It just so happened to be in Mexico. So, during my years at college, I kept praying about the mission field. Until one day, God pressed it on my eart so badly that I wanted to drop out of bible college and just go right then and there! I called my friends mother in law and told her what was happening. She told me that I shouldn’t drop out of Bible College because she didn’t want me to regret it later on in life. So, almost everyday I prayed for that orphanage that I wanted to go help in Mexico. I worked really hard to make sure I would graduate and go be a blessing to a bunch of orphans. This video below is where I will be heading in a couple of weeks, and I couldn’t be more excited!
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Charmaine accepted Christ at the age of 19, and now attends Golden State Baptist College in Santa Clara, CA. Where she is pursuing her Associate’s Degree in General Education. Archives
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