Exciting News

My dream has come true, and I did not do anything to deserve it. For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to go to Africa, photograph that amazing country, and help the people living there.

20 other members of my church will be headed to Ethiopia on a support mission to establish initial contact with the country, bring much needed medical supplies and food, and hopefully help with the children in the schools. My role will be just like that of the other members, but I am also going to be photographing the entire mission from the people we encounter, the work that God does, and the tragedies facing a country that is one of the most impoverished in the world. I hope that God can use a talent He is building in me to reach America's heart and drive support for this nation.

I am incredibly excited, but also very nervous. I have never taken a leap of faith like this before - financially and in faith. I am missing a very, very important meeting in my profession, but this is worth it.

We need prayer as a group - both for our safety since there have been bombings and confusion with terrorist activity in this region, and for financial support. We must raise over $2800 to go to this mission. Many of us can afford to pay this on our own, but we are trusting God that He will bless others in their hope to bless us.

I pray that my pictures will move the Silicon Valley, an area of rich resources, to share just 1% of their wealth for this amazing country and their nationals.