Called

Today I got to see the finished product of the last several months worth of work. This is the book I edited. It's a 32-page, full colour, commemorative art book celebrating the university's 50 years of student missions. In 1959, the first student missionary left Walla Walla U. and went into the wilds of Alaska; the first student missionary to leave Walla Walla U. and leave North America went to Peru in 1964. Since then, over 2,200 student missionaries, including my littlest sister who is in Poland right now, have trekked across the globe or across the country to heed the call they heard from God to serve Him and give to others. This book documents a small portion of those experiences, including stories and pictures from places like Ethiopia, Finland, Thailand, Vietnam, Pohnpei, India, England, Hawai'i, Chad, Bangladesh, Korea, Malawi, Poland, Nepal and many more. It is appropriately titled, "Called: Our journey into faith and discovery." This project taught me a lot about student missionaries and a lot about publications...I've discovered a new respect for the first and a new love for the second. I hope I get to do some more projects like this in the future.