I'm Sarah White; I'm eighteen years old. I graduated from Eastside High School in Greenville, SC in 2009, and I took this past year off of school to work and travel. 

I spent the first 7 months after graduation working at Woodlands Camp in Cleveland, GA (only half an hour away from AIM and i never knew!!). Staying to work past the summer was by far one of the best decisions I've ever made. The work was humbling, but it was refreshing after high school to be surrounded by people going hard after God and to be confronted daily with the gospel. In October, I took a trip to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. It was in Fiji that God opened my eyes to what a third world country was really like. To experience it instead of just seeing pictures blew my mind. The coolest thing was that in the midst of poverty, everyone in Fiji was completely satisfied in Christ!! The week i got home, Hillsong United's documentary "We're All in This Together" premiered. The movie covered the band's two year music mission trip. One of the members talked about how he had no idea what he was going to do on the mission field b/c of the language and culture barrier but he KNEW he had to go. He knew he had to go love the people of the world in the name of Jesus no matter what he had to offer. God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called...so this is when Jesus told me I needed to go to the mission field this summer :)

anyway....since november i've been working at home at Pivotal Fitness and in the mall. I'm studying from home to be a personal trainer....my procrastination is making it take way way longer than it should have....but i'm stoked. I will be at Anderson University this fall studying kinesiology and then hopefully transferring my sophmore year to College of Charleston to finish up in Exercise Science.

I absolutely love meeting new people, its my favorite, so i'm really excited about meeting you guys in two weeks! I love working out, especially running. I love music....could talk about it for hours....but i can't carry a tune. at all. I like to chill and just talk, and i really really like doing things spontaneously. I love being outside. I hate scary movies. I'm passionate about snowboarding but i'm not very good...and i've recently tried to pick up longboarding. I want to live in australia. and that's all i can think of right now...

Can't wait to get to Nicaragua. I've been struggling with some things and so i'm really excited to see how God will give me the mercy to pursue His calling.

See you guys soon :)