 My name is Annalya Lansing and I'm from Austin, Texas. I have always wanted to go into full-time ministry and that ended up me pursuing psychology because I wanted to go into counseling and use that as a ministry, potentially even overseas in the future. With my desire to pursue ministry long-term in the future, I started just being peripheral about where God wanted to send me now and went with CCU to the world, which is the admissions organization on campus. To go to New Zealand. And I went there. It was an incredible experience as a participant. And then this year, I felt the tug of my heart by the Lord to propose my own trip and lead it with a team down to Brazil. And so I went there this last summer and we were there for two and a half weeks. The first week we were on the Amazon going to different villages. There was an indigenous tribe that we visited as well with the ministry just sharing the love of Jesus to people. And the second week we went up to northern Brazil and we worked with the Venezuelan refugees because of the crisis that's taking place in that country. I grew so much as a leader in understanding God's intentions for people and the way that we can truly love others by just using the language of love. And I think that that is so much more powerful than people understand. And it's something that the Lord definitely taught me this summer in greater ways. I feel like every season and semester I've been here at CCU and the Lord has taught me so many different ways to grow and understand who he is, and understand who I am, especially through my psychology classes and understanding personality and understanding how Christ is so involved in every aspect of that. CCU has equipped me in almost every year of my life for the future. I have been so blessed by faculty, by leadership, by individuals who have given to scholarship funds that I have been able to benefit from and people who have invested so well into my future because they seek value of it and the value of me. And that has brought so much strength and confidence into my life and going into this new season, knowing that I have such an incredible support system and so many people who have believed in me along the way.