I'm hoping to begin to learn this on my next journey in life, which is the reason I started this blog in the first place. I will be on a six-month journey starting April 2, 2009 through Youth With A Mission called the PhotogenX DTS that strives to speak out for those who have no voice and fight poverty and injustice in our world. We'll do this through photography, writing, and other types of media, striving to give hope to those who need it. It is through the media that we have today that one person's story can reach thousands, through words or a simple pictures. When I was a child I remember looking through the newspapers and reading about other children far away who were living in refugee camps and fighting for their lives. I would look at their photos and remember thinking that while their faces were young, the eyes of these children were very old. And these children, these people that I saw, they were a gift from God.
There is no person on this earth that is less valuable than another. There is no person on this earth that God does not love, that He did not create in a unique and beautiful way. There is no person that does not matter. I am telling you that today and I am hoping to spread that to many other people on this journey that I'm taking.
The first three months of my journey will be in Kona, Hawaii at the University of the Nations. There I will meet my other team members, learn about where we will be traveling, learn about this great God that we serve, and hopefully learn some photography skills also! Then we will take off for other places, our actual assignment, most likely down around Central America. I am hoping to be able to keep up with this blog while I am down there, to keep everyone "back home" posted on what is going on. So please, keep checking up, and keep in touch!
Love you all and God bless!
