Mission

Made to serve in this time for the purpose of...

My mission in life is living out the verse, "Man may plan his ways, but the Lord determines his steps" (Proverbs 16:9). I believe that God has placed a great conviction in my heart to create a tangible change in global poverty. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development there is a "roughly 554,000 homeless people living somewhere in the United States on a given night last year. A total of 193,000 of those people were 'unsheltered,' meaning that they were living on the streets and had no access to emergency shelters, transitional housing, or Safe Havens" (Public Health/Homelessness). In this time period, homelessness has been aggressively growing in cities like Los Angeles in California and more slums have been populating in countries like Kenya, Africa. Growing up in east Los Angeles, I witnessed homeless communities growing and more families living in the streets every year. I strongly believe, I have a duty as a citizen and Christian to be involved in helping others in my neighborhood. My mission is to build local organizations that provides work training, psychological therapy, housing, spiritual transformation programs and connecting them to their families in hopes of rehabilitating individuals' back into society. I recognize that people have chosen to live in that style, however my objective is to enable those who are willing to improve in life. According to the World Bank, it has been calculated that people are “living on $1.90 a day might seem impossible in a developed country, but the World Bank estimates that 10.7% of the world's population, or about 760 million people, face this reality” (Business Insider). Countries like Kenya or Mexico, are the ones who fit into this statistic. When I went to Kenya, specifically in Soweto slum I witnessed children eating from the floor, people walking on the sewage of human waist, and heard stories of infants left in trash cans. Therefore, I am motivated to work alongside government officials to create free public education in slums for children who are orphans or street kids. This education program would create community leaders and government leaders in order that slums would transition into a healthy and well-established city. I intend to create a strong relationship with local churches and hospitals in the city to support families who live in Soweto.

A second verse I relate greatly is I “have come to your royal position for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). As a millennium, I see my generation and the upcoming generation as egoistic, narcissist, and diluted in technology. My mission to rejuvenate this generation through university conferences and high school speeches for the purpose of exhorting young teens and adults, inspiring them to serve their community, and create leaders in their homes. My hope is to be a living example of success and work alongside with them, so that they too can be relational, self-less, and an ascent to society.

Cite:

http://thedataface.com/2018/01/public-health/american-homelessness

http://www.businessinsider.com/world-bank-released-new-poverty-lines-see-where-your-country-falls-2017-10

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