I have spent much of the last two day working on creating a Mercy Partner's website (really the last week but I started over yesterday as I was frustrated with the program). Honestly, I have considered myself a pretty talented person especially in the area of visual arts. Creating a website while in the end is very visual, the process itself has very little to do with being an artist. At the end of the day I think being an artist makes it even harder as, "It needs to look just right" and I am just not able to do what I want to do.
After hours of trying this and that, I broke down and read the how to section. I wonder why it is that reading the instructions is not the first step in doing something new?
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
5 Years Ago
Over five years ago, at the ripe age of twenty-three I traveled to Kenya on a three month volunteer mission adventure. During that time I blogged about my daily life and happenings as a way to stay connected with my friends and family. It was an adventure that introduced me to a world that was very different from mine; and while their was much poverty, pain, and sadness, not everything was bad. It then became my mission to open up this new world to others as a way to help alleviate some of this sadness and correct some of the misconceptions that I heard from my peers.
Since my first trip, I have led five groups of volunteers. Each trip is a little different but always life changing. We primarily work with schools and children's homes as we consider the health and education of these children. As we build relationships and learn about the needs of the communities, we work to find partners to help fill these needs. With growing partnerships and an over abundance of needs, I am working to incorporate as a non-profit. "Mercy Partners" is about linking compassion with need.
So I have once again started blogging and hope that this blog will be the inside scoop to what is going on behind the sense of Mercy Partners. It is for my board members to keep up as we are spread across the country, it is for those who have traveled to Kenya and have invested in the lives of these children and want to see whats new, but most importantly it is for those who too would like to make a difference and don't know where to start.
Since my first trip, I have led five groups of volunteers. Each trip is a little different but always life changing. We primarily work with schools and children's homes as we consider the health and education of these children. As we build relationships and learn about the needs of the communities, we work to find partners to help fill these needs. With growing partnerships and an over abundance of needs, I am working to incorporate as a non-profit. "Mercy Partners" is about linking compassion with need.
So I have once again started blogging and hope that this blog will be the inside scoop to what is going on behind the sense of Mercy Partners. It is for my board members to keep up as we are spread across the country, it is for those who have traveled to Kenya and have invested in the lives of these children and want to see whats new, but most importantly it is for those who too would like to make a difference and don't know where to start.
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