Michaela V.

Hello,

I am a second year student at queens u, studying sociology with a minor in religion. I am originally from a small town in the Ottawa Valley, and I am just getting used to city life. I am currently hoping to do an online masters program in either social work or counseling, unless I feel called to anything else. I come from a large family who loves to get together to have jam sessions, so I really enjoy anything music related. I also like getting together with friends to go on adventures, or just little errands just to spend time with them.

Overall, I am a pretty easy going person. While planning is important to me, I am pretty good at going with the flow when things don’t go the way they were supposed to. Most of my friends know that I am very rarely in a negative mood, and it takes a lot to stop me from being happy. I think it makes me a fairly resilient person.

Why do I want to be on Mission?

On my application I outlined the biggest, most identifiable reasons I felt like I wanted to go. This included few events that felt like an obvious call to apply. But for simplicities sake right now, I will break it down a little more.

The real reason I want to go is because I feel like there isn’t anything else I should be doing. The more time I spend working on my relationship with the Lord, the more I want others to feel it too. It has changed my perspective in so many ways. I find it so much easier to see the need for Christ in people’s lives, rather than only noticing their imperfections. I used to be angry at people who mocked religion, and while I will still stand up for my beliefs, I just hear a voice in my head saying they don’t know what they’re doing.

I know what it is like to try and fill your life with things you think are going to make you happy, and the feeling of emptiness that comes along with it. But I also know what it feels like to have a personal encounter with Jesus, and know how it feels to let him help you instead. Because of this, I have a deep desire to share it with others, and it feels like there is no way I could do anything else.