My name is Elizabeth McGee and I am a Candidate for the Iota class of the Iota chapter of Sigma Alpha Omega! God has always been a large part of my life. I grew up in a Christian home and was always in church. I was confirmed when I was in 6th grade and this was the point in my life when I finally started realizing who God really was. I knew the stories but I did not know about working for Christ. After Hurricane Katrina hit I had my first large mission experience. After that I was hooked!!! Mission trips are what brings me back to God and readjusts my focus. I am not perfect and a readjustment is often needed! I just returned from a mission trip to the Bahamas. I know what many of you are thinking and it is the same thing that many people thought and said along my road to getting to the Bahamas, “The Bahamas is not a mission spot, it is a tourist spot.” Well yes, there are many tourists on the main island of Nassau but many people do not look at the smaller islands. I went to the island of Eleuthera. There is great poverty on this island but people have the strongest love for their savior and their neighbors!! In Eleuthera, a gallon of milk is around $10 and there are many people without jobs but everyone looks out for each other. It was an eye opener!!! Never again will I complain in the grocery store about high prices!! We are given so much but yet we often act like we are given very little!! I have learned that serving is my way of praising the Lord for all that he does!! Never take anything for granted because there is always someone out there, in the least expected place, that has it worse than you do!!!
Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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