The Gimbie Chronicles

Welcome to my blog.  Thank you for deciding to take a look.    About 9 months ago I was at church and Kristina Rhuman went up front to talk about her upcoming missionary trip to India.  She went to do teaching over there.  Growing up in the public school system, not many people do missionary work my age but nevertheless I always knew that someday I wanted to do some type of missionary work.  After hearing Kristina’s story I went and talked to her after church.  I found out more about her and how she got involved.  After that something just clicked.  I really can’t explain what it was because I really don’t know.  On the way home I told my parents casually that it would be interesting to check out mission opportunities.  Over the next few months I thought about it more and more and then on January 1st I contacted the Walla Walla Student Missions office.  From there it got pretty intense for me.  I have never been over seas or done a mission trip before so the amount of preparation definitely intimidated me.  Through each step though I knew that I was getting closer and closer to doing a mission trip what ever it would be.  I filled out paper after paper and frankly got tired of signing and dating documents.  I heard that the medical missions were harder to find and people often had to go out on their own to find them.  Even though I really wanted to do a medical mission I was open to doing something like teaching.  As I looked around I found positions that interested me.  One of them I remembered was teaching high school math.   I found plenty of teaching but not really any medical.  One Saturday I was talking to Dr. Greg Loewen.  I was telling him about what I was doing and the positions that I was finding but that I really wanted to get a medical position and he told me that he knew a doctor that had medical missionary connections all over the world.  I told that I would definitely be interested in getting in contact with him.  The doctor was overseas at the time.  On March 2nd Dr. Greg got back to me.  He said, “I heard back from my friend who is the doctor who does missionary work; he just got back from Ethiopia. Are you still interested? He thinks that he can help you…”  This was the turning point…