How I was called to the mission field

  Before I explain how God called me to my mission I should probably describe myself. I am the type of person where I like to have everything planned out. But, I know that sometimes your own plan isn’t God’s plan. My plan for college was to do community college for two years and earn as many credits as possible and then transfer to a University to get my bachelors of Science. I wanted to go to school straight through, with no interruptions, or pauses. I was going to learn in only my second semester of college that He had other plans.    
                I was sitting in my sociology 101 class listening to my professor give a lecture on culture bias. I have always enjoyed learning about other cultures and their beliefs. My professor announced we would be watching a video. The movie was titled “Born into Brothels”. It was about a woman who traveled to India to teach photography to children who lived in Brothels in India. This woman worked so hard to try and get these children out of the brothels by helping them get accepted into private live-in schools. It was hard work but she succeeded in getting every child she taught into one school or another.
                But at the end of the movie, a sort of epilogue appears on the screen. Out of the twelve children she managed to help enroll only two stayed in the school longer than a month. The other ten children were either pulled out by their parents or left the school on their own accord. When I saw this it made me angry. How could these children not see the opportunity they had to escape a life of degradation and turmoil? We had to write a paper on the movie, and while I was writing my paper I realized something: “Those children don’t need a fancy school or photography lessons. Those children need to hear about the love of God.”
                Over the next few weeks I couldn’t get those beautiful faces out of my mind. I explained it to my Dad and he said “Katarina, maybe God wants you to do something about it.”
                Honestly the thought terrified me but I could still feel the pulling on my heart for those children who seemed so trapped. I thought I would just casually look into a mission trip to India thinking nothing would really come out of it but, God works in incredible ways, and here I am! I want to more than ever go on this trip.