"It is for freedom that Christ has set you free.  Stand firm and do not let yourselves be burdened by a yoke of slavery."

  -Galations 5:1

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  These words do not ring more true for me then on this trip.  From day three when I gave my life to Christ for the final time, freedom has been all over my lips and a part of my soul.  I cannot tell you how amazing it is to be able to say that I am a pure, holy, and blameless child of God.  I am his beloved, he has sought after me, and in him I find the freedom I have always been searching for.

 

  On Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009, one of the greatest experiences of my life took place in Mombasa, Kenya.  Under the sunset I, along with 3 others, was baptized in the Indian Ocean.  Though I know that it is only a public display of a spiritual action, the feeling of diving below the waves a sinner and resurfacing a pure child of God is amazing.  That cleansing symbolism is so beautiful to me, and to know that my team witnessed that and seek to be my accountability brings great comfort to me.

 

  This experience will forever go down as one of the greatest moments in my spiritual journey.     And I will no longer be burdened by a yoke of slavery because my Jesus died and rose again for me, and praise God...I have joined him!

 

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                                        -John 8:36