Author Archives: Sara Vasile

I feel like it would be natural and even expected, that as Americans we would be greatly saddened by the material poverty of a place like General Cepeda, Mexico. But to be honest, I have found that I have become jealous of their poverty. I loved that the people in this little town lived in one or two room homes without heat or air and sometimes without any kind of bathroom. I think as Americans, we see this as sad because we think that we need heat and  air conditioning and hot water and washing

Last tuesday, I flew out of the Atlanta airport to go home for Thanksgiving. When I got to the gate I was leaving from, I decided to do morning prayer because it was morning and I hadn’t prayed yet. I was really surprised at first because I just found it so difficult. Even before I sat down, I felt as if I was surrounded by noise. There was this huge television hanging from the ceiling on the left and somehow I guess they had the volume coming through the intercom so you could hear it wherever you

Before I came here, I decided to offer up this year for a special intention. I remember telling God that I wanted  every act of love to be a prayer for someone else. But for some reason, I thought these “acts of love” would be glorious somehow. The other day, I was mopping the bathroom floor and I was reminded of what I told God a couple of months ago. Then the next day, I was shoveling mulch and I was reminded of it again. First of all, I’m just a girl, and both mopping and shoveling require a

Hello! So this is my first blog as a Life Teen Missionary! Crazy! Being here at Covecrest is completely different than what I expected. I expected that we would jump into “doing” a whole bunch of stuff, that it would be stressful and maybe even overwhelming. And I admit that I wouldn’t have been ready to do that. The thing that amazes me most about being here is that the focus is truly on prayer, and nothing else. The community here actually believes that all we have to do is focus on diving