My Journey to NYC

Hey Everyone! 

This is my first experience with having a blog, but I have been highly encouraged to give it a try! I have been in NYC for just over a year, but my experiences getting here and the time I have been here has been one for the ages. So let me tell you my story of how I ended up in NYC!

It was the summer between my junior and senior year at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. My church was holding a revival in which the Holy Spirit was moving like wild fire! Being that it was coming close to the start of my last year of college, I had slowly began the process of thinking about graduate school (thinking is the key word haha). During the revival, a couple of friends, along with myself were prayed over regarding having an impact on our campuses for the coming year... At this point, let me give you a quick background of my college situation: I was going into my senior year and my second year as Student Body President. I had a vision for the campus to begin to transform it into a stronger spiritually on fire community. It became a strong passion of mine actually. 

Ok, back to the revival. While being prayed for, the evangelist, the pastor and other pastors surrounded the small group of students and began speaking life over us. Long story short, I was praying and asking God to give me words for the future of my campus and for myself. That's when it hit me like He was standing in that circle! I heard God tell me, "I want you to go to NYC, it will be a time for growth" Ok... well I didn't know what that meant, but at that point in my walk with Christ, I knew that when I felt the Holy Spirit move, all I had to do is say YES. So I did!

Now I said that I had slowly started thinking about graduate school. I had filled a profile out on a grad school website with my interests, but that was it. Well one day I got a notification of a program that may be of interest to me. And it was in NYC! I felt great about this program but continued to pray about God's calling in my life. My senior year went on and I took the G.R.E (gross...) and began applying to schools. I got accepted into the one in New York very quickly and I thought, well God, if this is where you want me, I believe that you will make the way for it to happen.

Now came the logistics of NYC, mainly living there haha. As one of my current friends would say, "Lord knows its tough out here!" Graduation came and the next week, I traveled to NYC to visit the school and begin to look for housing. I continued to pray for God's provisions because I truly believed that He wanted me to be in this city. My dad and I stepped on campus and felt an instant peace about it, and the housing situation worked out so I could live with a family my dad knew for many years! 

So now I am in NYC and have loved every part of it! There are more details to my journey out here but I already talk to much haha. Please ask away if you would like to know more. I say this to let everyone know that when God has a plan for your life and you are willing to take the leap of faith and say YES, He will set up favor for it to happen, because let's get real, ain't no stopping God! My prayer for most of the time being here has been for opportunities to bless anyone for Christ's Kingdom and I hope that this may have blessed someone. I hope you enjoy my first blog and I am sure there will be many more to come!