Kara Michael graduated from WSU last spring. She was involved with Cru, and is now getting ready to go on a year long mission trip (STINT) to Australia. Here is a little bit of her story...
"Throughout my four years at Washington State University, I studied Sociology expecting to learn ways I could bring hope to an aching world. Semester after semester my classes dove into global social issues, discussing ways to bring hope into these pressing situations. As my studies continued, I noticed my professors’ solutions did not seem to implement the hope required for the brokenness we experience everyday – whether it be with warring countries, political instability, the hurting within our families or within ourselves. The textbook answers and my professors’ theories for hope were not satisfying.
As my relationship with Christ deepened, He demonstrated what hope could look like in my fractured life personally, as well as in the fractured world we live in. Being involved with a Christian group at WSU called Campus Crusade for Christ, I experienced a transformational community of believers, with truth and grace being pillars in our relationships. It was here that I began to catch a vision for how God could bring hope into our broken lives and world.
Using similar communities built on grace and truth, God is bringing hope to students throughout the world. Three summers ago I had the joy of being a part of His redemptive work on the University of Newcastle campus in Australia. Since then, He has been patiently and persistently calling me back to this ethnically diverse and spiritually apathetic culture. It has been a beautiful process, knowing there is no other place I would rather be than in the center of His will."
Kara is currently raising support for STINT so she can leave for the start of the Australian school year in January. You can help by giving here!
