freedom.

As I write this, I sit in a cozy little home adorned in warm tones and earthy designs. On only my second morning to awake here, I already feel right at home. I make my bed, fix my cheerios and open the blinds to find a beautiful day ahead of me, just like home.

Here I sit rocking in this big green chair, reflecting on the past two days when I look up to have my eyes fall upon the only wall picture in this room... "FREEDOM". This beautifully hand painted word is exactly what brings me to this cozy little home I have described to you. Just upstairs, resides the Director of End Slavery Tennessee, Derri Smith, and her family. I have been working within this organization since Fall of 2009, and the Lord has divinely placed me in this chair today to serve as a summer intern.

My life has been blessed by serving this ministry for the past few years and the Lord has continuously opened door after door in my life, calling me to serve His kingdom in this way. I guess you could say I have quite the advantage as an intern who is already knowledgeable about the organization and mission, but this summer gives me a new opportunity to peek in at how my life will more so look like after I graduate next spring, if the Lord continues to will me in this ministry. I also look forward to the opportunity to learn more about survivors, to work with more youth, and you hear us all say this constantly - Human trafficking is a very complex issue and so I look forward to gaining more hands on knowledge about the realms of this issue that are difficult to tackle while attending school (homework, studying, paper writing, tests, etc etc etc)!

Many people have been asking me to blog about what I do with ESTN, so this summer I plan to write as often as I can...or as often as I remember ;) Welcome to this summer journey!