First of all, I want to thank everybody for your prayers & financial sacrifices last year for my missionary trip to Taiwan. Without God, and your willingness to listen to the LORD, it wouldn't have been possible for me to travel to the other side of the world and represent Him to the nation of Asia. I arrived in Taiwan back in August 2008, and I had no idea what God had in store for me. My walk with Christ has been blessed beyond anything I could of imagined. From August until December I attended a training school for missionaries through the organization known as Youth With A Mission (YWAM), where I learned to develop my own personal character, to cultivate a living relationship with God, and to identify my unique individual gifts and callings in God. While there I realized my ultimate calling in God is to reach EVERY nation as a missionary, specifically Asia.

Right after the training school was over, my class and I flew to India for an outreach from December 2008 to February 2009. We traveled all over the state of Maharashtra, India, going from unreached villages living in pure poverty to preaching at churches in persecuted areas. It was a time for me to witness God's amazing mercy and love for all people. I encountered mass villages coming to Christ, the barriers of Satan crumbling, families being restored, physical aliments being cured, and hope growing in a people where hope was impossible to find.

I returned to America February 16, 2009, with a newfound purpose in life. I'm a missionary for Christ Jesus, and I want to tell the world of His love. Since I've been back God has really been preparing me for the future as a full-time missionary in Asia. It was difficult for a while, because the only thing God was sharing with me was the simply word "WAIT". For me, a person of action, this word was painful to swallow. I kept my eyes of God, and eventually I realized God was testing me. I then decided to come up with a name for my ministry. After several times of prayer, the words "Pray Asia Ministries" surfaced, and it's here to stay.

I now have an opportunity to go to the Dominican Republic for a short-term missionary trip to work with widows and orphans. I know that God will be doing mighty things and I am glad to have you be a part of that. The biggest, and most important, part you can serve in my calling is prayer. There's no such thing as too much prayer, and I encourage everyone to keep me in yours. Another important part is money donations. I can't do this on my own. Believe me, I wish I could, because I dislike asking people for money. I need $1,000 for my flight, and room and board. Whichever support method God places on your heart, I pray you think of it not as time or money, but about the lost, the hurting, and the poor.

"Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Matthew 28:16-20 (NIV)