HUT-a new vision

I just spent two weeks at HUT, Harding University at Tahkodah, a program that prepares people to go into the mission field. I learned so much during these two weeks. I was stretched beyond anything I had experienced before. We simulated what it was actually like to go to a foreign country, and to experience living conditions, culture, and government. I felt the anxiety that came from the rain clouds and the lightening in the distance, no knowing whether I would be dry that night while I slept. I felt the uneasiness that came from not knowing the language and how to properly communicate with the people. I felt the vulnerability of being in a situation and having no way of coming out of it, a fixed fate. I can not even say I have truly experienced these things either, because at the end of the day I knew I still had a home to go home to at the end of those two weeks.

This course taught me so much, it taught me how to kill chickens, how to start fires, how to plant a garden, along with the importance of composting. It also opened my eyes to the reality of the poverty in the world, the limited good, and the limited resources that are unevenly divided in the world. I can not understand why some people have so much, while others have so little. Why Americans never have to eat the same thing twice, when there are people who are lucky to get even a cup of tea before their hard day of work. I do not think I will ever understand this, all I can do is ask God, and look to him for a way to help in anyway I can. I hope I never ever forget this either.

HUT really stretched me, and it really just strengthened my passion for going to Zambia. I know it will be a hard road, but I am so excited for what God has in store for us. We are called to be separate. We are called to be his servants.

Religion that God our father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the word. James 1:27

In Him,

Kayleigh