Hiya! My name is Elizabeth
and I am twenty years old. I was born in beautiful Lexington, Kentucky.
My family and I moved to Ohio about 8 years
ago and now West Chester is home.

I am so psyched about going to Nicaragua this summer. There have
been so many green lights God has given me as I've sought out coming on this
trip. Being able to leave school almost two weeks before the term ends and
receive my credits was a huge answer
to prayer, and was a reminder of God's total involvement in this pursuit.  I am certain that God's got amazing things
planned for this trip.

Little tid-bit about me...

I am twenty years old and easy going. I'm a first born child
and have seven younger brothers and sisters, who are some of my very best
friends. I spend a lot of time with my family, and I'm gonna miss them a ton
this summer.

I am a student at Sinclair
Community College and
studying to get my degree in Early Childhood Development and minor in
Psychology.

  am imperfect, very transparent and open. I'm extremely
social and love to get to know people on a deeper level. I am very much an
optimist and I can function on little sleep. I have a running bucket list;
traveling to Costa Rica
is one. I love rollercoasters and do not like the dark. I speak sarcasm
fluently and I know only like, three words in Spanish. (I'm working on adding
to that.)

I have been so blessed to grow up in a Christian home. Both
my parents love the Lord and have taught us kids to do the same. If I where to
share with you in a sentence my testimony, it would be something like this; All
religion ever made of me was a sinner with a stone tied to my feet, it never
set me free - falling deeply in love
with Jesus brought the change in me."

Growing up in church and being surrounded by Christians my
entire life, I knew how to talk the walk and yeah, even how to walk the walk,
but it was shallow. I knew what to say and when to say it, how to act and where
to be. Without a doubt, I loved Jesus and had a passion for serving him that
was real and genuine. But even though those desires and Christian traits where
there in my life, it wasn't until just a few years ago that everything I
believed about me, about others, and about God came under fire.

In the fall of 2008 my little world as I had known it began
to crumble. Although I can't give a lot of detail here, I left home for a time
under some very odd and hard circumstances. During my time away from home,
amidst a hurricane of events involving my family and church members due to my
leave, God began a life change my heart.

I don't know if you've ever had an experience in life that
has placed you in a position to question everything you believe. For me, that
moment came one night when it was just me and God. There was no one and nothing
for a distraction. With face on the floor, with pretence gone and walls down,
God began to get a hold of my heart. I could not change what others had done.
The past was untouchable; the scars of hurt would still be there. But God in His
mercy was beginning to call me out. Calling me to live in forgiveness, to walk
in freedom, to live unashamed, and to seek hard after a relationship with Him.
That night was the beginning to a new way of life for me. I no longer was able
to tailgate on my parents walk with God. I could not "lone ranger" this
Christian life. I needed a personal and real relationship with the Lord Jesus.

Let me tell you, some the hardest of times in my life have
come sense that day. Yeah, that night brought change to the inside of me but
the circumstances around honestly did not change much. Inside change sustained
me for the days that followed. But I can tell you this, He is who I live for
today. I am passionate about living life to the fullest for His glory. He has
brought fulfillment into my life in a way that no one or nothing ever can. He
is a chain breaker and heart changer!

I am a victim of God's amazing grace every single day. I am
so very human and if it where not for His patience with me and His promise to never
up on me...I shutter to think where I'd be today.

Well, I'm pretty sure I totally redefined your idea how
tid-bit. Haha.

I do talk a lot, so feel free to tell me when to ...... (You
know.) I won't be offended. You won't be the first.

I can't wait to meet you all and join together in this force
of what God's gonna do in my life personally and as a team this summer in Nicaragua! 

Let's do this!

Elizabeth Anne ~*