Hijacked.

Hi. I’m Lex. I’m a student ministry leader at Redefined. I want to tell you a story.

Less than a year ago, a couple young ladies pulled an anxiety intervention on their friend.

Miko is graduating this spring and she’s kinda freaking out. She doesn’t want to talk about it … but she needs to talk about it.

So we talked. She graduated a whole year early, which is exciting and impressive … and also a little bit of a rude awakening.

Oh ya, by the way, you’re an adult now. Don’t mess it up.

We talked about community college, and universities, and jobs, and apartments, and cars, and all those things. And then, on a whim (or maybe not—hindsight being 20/20 and all that), I said, “Or doing something cool. You kind of have a whole extra year. Go overseas! Do missions work for a year! Do something crazy!”

To which Miko quietly shrugged and murmured, “Ya.”

“I’m serious. We know people. I could safely send you to India, or Cambodia, or Mexico next week if you wanted to go.”

To which Miko quietly shrugged and murmured, “Okay.”

But it was enough of a seed, and she is enough of a young woman of prayer, that she came back some weeks later and said, “Mexico.”

I said she should go for a year. She thought six to nine months. Pastor Simon said if she was going to go, she should enroll in their ministry school, which is a one-year program, so pretty much I’m 2 for 0 and Miko has to just do what I say from now on. 😉

And before either one of us really knew it, we were here: pricing airfare and figuring out the best way to handle donations and setting up social media platforms. What had been a long running joke (“See? This is why I’m trying to send you to Mexico for a year!”) is suddenly very, very real.  Continue reading “On Why I’m Sending Miko to Mexico” →