Author: Adventures

I arrived at Chattanooga Airport around 3:00 p.m. on Friday to meet my teammates who were all complete strangers to me. Little did I know, several hours later we would be spooning in a home-made tent from two tarps in the middle of the woods. Since each team member got to bring 3 things from their luggage, 3 of us shared 1 pillow the whole night. Talk about getting Real Close Real Fast. Adventure does not even sum up our first night experience. This was only the beginning of our teams bonding. God has really shown me the importance of community in Him. He truly taught us how essential it is...

The night before I left I was so fortunate to be able to spend time with family and friends. My mom cooked a delicious meal and we all came together and ate. We laughed, enjoyed each others company and had a wonderful time!! At one point I sat back and realized that I am loved. I have been blessed with such amazing people in my life who support me, encourage me, challenge me and love me. I knew these things prior to this dinner yet this time I soaked these moments up. It was beautiful. While at training camp I have become more grateful for family and friends, for laughter and memories that...

Training Camp was not what I expected. I arrived in the Atlanta airport with a two hour layover until I flew to Chattanooga, Tennessee. I was sitting there minding my own business when a college aged girl approached me. She asked me if I was going on a Real life trip and I was surprised but answered yes. She answered that she was too and invited me to join a bunch of other Real Life participants on the other side of the desk.  I had no idea that we were going to be training with all the other Real life teams! It has been so great spending time with all of these Christian college...

Going into this trip I didn’t feel at all prepared for what we were doing. Thankfully, AIM offers an amazing training camp to help all those unsure people such as myself. Throughout the four days we have spent at camp the AIM staff has done such an amazing job working with us and preparing us for the next couple months. Through community building activities such as sleeping in a tarp shelter our first night freezing our butts off, awesome dance off’s, and creating our own mural representing our team and what we want to gain from this trip, we all feel as though we have known...