A letter from our founder
I’m so glad you’ve found your way to one of the millions of pages in existence and have found yourself here about to read the story of the beginning of something so dear to my heart.
My first cross cultural mission trip was to Ghana, West Africa in 2011 at the age of 15. I had the opportunity to serve on a team that was focused on church leadership development. Throughout the two weeks we were there, we taught leadership development and discipleship training to a local leadership team with a church in a small village. It was incredible throughout the weeks to hear the stories of Ghanaian believers and how the Lord had used people to present the gospel to them in a way that was so enthralling that they committed their lives to serving the people around them and traveling within their country to minister to a myriad of different people groups. Ghana forever changed me in so many ways, but primarily it gave way to a new excitement and new understanding of the very thing that my heart was made to beat for, the spread of the Gospel to all peoples of all nations.
In 2013, I was given the opportunity to travel to Romania. While in Romania, I served with a team that was putting on a summer camp for a group of Roma children in the mountains of Romania. The mountains were stunning and left me in complete awe, but the stories of the children’s lives horrified me. Many of them had stories that were hard for me to swallow, and hard for me to reconcile with a Good, Loving, Just God. I did not have any intentions on returning to Romania upon leaving that trip. However, opportunities came up for me to return the next year to work in a gypsy village and the Lord’s still small voice continued to tug and pull at my heart to return. I was hesitant to go, but decided that these types of opportunities were few and far between and the draw of the Holy Spirit was undeniable.
On this trip, I met a pastor and his wife who were living in a gypsy village and had begun a church there. Their ministry was experiencing several trials at the time but they had big dreams for their village to know the Saving and Redeeming Love of God. They desired to see growth in the church, literacy through education and fresh water and resources brought to the highly impoverished community. In the past five years, I have had the privilege of partnering with them in a number of different ways including getting to live with them for two months to serve in the local church and build a kindergarten in the village. Through fundraising, sending teams to build and strategize, and lots of prayer a kindergarten came into being a little over a year ago. The kindergarten in the village of Soard has provided education, food, encouragement and hope in a desperate place. In addition to working with the Romanian leadership team to develop a kindergarten, I have had the privilege to serve and dream alongside them. Over the past few years, it has grown incredibly evident to me what relationship, encouragement, and prayer can do.
Throughout this learning process, I founded a nonprofit organization called Chosen Vessels. Chosen Vessels seeks to encourage, equip and empower leaders in ministry across the globe. I have learned so much through my friendship with the leadership team in Soard. They are sold out for the sake of the Gospel. Their hearts are totally and completely devoted to bringing Truth and Light into a dark place. There are so many people around the world that are passionate about the Gospel but have never had anyone to come alongside them and encourage them that they have their own special gifts and talents that they can use to impart change on their homes, neighborhoods and villages. Chosen Vessels desires to do just that. To encourage people in their unique gifts and talents, to equip through discipleship and leadership training, and to empower through prayer in the Holy Spirit. Our desire is for all peoples and all nations to know the redemptive love and grace of Jesus, to feel surrounded by a body of believers that will encourage, equip and empower them to continue to take gospel to the corners of the world starting in their own villages.
I would love for you to be apart of this great commandment to take the Gospel to all corners of the world.
In Him,
Bekah
My first cross cultural mission trip was to Ghana, West Africa in 2011 at the age of 15. I had the opportunity to serve on a team that was focused on church leadership development. Throughout the two weeks we were there, we taught leadership development and discipleship training to a local leadership team with a church in a small village. It was incredible throughout the weeks to hear the stories of Ghanaian believers and how the Lord had used people to present the gospel to them in a way that was so enthralling that they committed their lives to serving the people around them and traveling within their country to minister to a myriad of different people groups. Ghana forever changed me in so many ways, but primarily it gave way to a new excitement and new understanding of the very thing that my heart was made to beat for, the spread of the Gospel to all peoples of all nations.
In 2013, I was given the opportunity to travel to Romania. While in Romania, I served with a team that was putting on a summer camp for a group of Roma children in the mountains of Romania. The mountains were stunning and left me in complete awe, but the stories of the children’s lives horrified me. Many of them had stories that were hard for me to swallow, and hard for me to reconcile with a Good, Loving, Just God. I did not have any intentions on returning to Romania upon leaving that trip. However, opportunities came up for me to return the next year to work in a gypsy village and the Lord’s still small voice continued to tug and pull at my heart to return. I was hesitant to go, but decided that these types of opportunities were few and far between and the draw of the Holy Spirit was undeniable.
On this trip, I met a pastor and his wife who were living in a gypsy village and had begun a church there. Their ministry was experiencing several trials at the time but they had big dreams for their village to know the Saving and Redeeming Love of God. They desired to see growth in the church, literacy through education and fresh water and resources brought to the highly impoverished community. In the past five years, I have had the privilege of partnering with them in a number of different ways including getting to live with them for two months to serve in the local church and build a kindergarten in the village. Through fundraising, sending teams to build and strategize, and lots of prayer a kindergarten came into being a little over a year ago. The kindergarten in the village of Soard has provided education, food, encouragement and hope in a desperate place. In addition to working with the Romanian leadership team to develop a kindergarten, I have had the privilege to serve and dream alongside them. Over the past few years, it has grown incredibly evident to me what relationship, encouragement, and prayer can do.
Throughout this learning process, I founded a nonprofit organization called Chosen Vessels. Chosen Vessels seeks to encourage, equip and empower leaders in ministry across the globe. I have learned so much through my friendship with the leadership team in Soard. They are sold out for the sake of the Gospel. Their hearts are totally and completely devoted to bringing Truth and Light into a dark place. There are so many people around the world that are passionate about the Gospel but have never had anyone to come alongside them and encourage them that they have their own special gifts and talents that they can use to impart change on their homes, neighborhoods and villages. Chosen Vessels desires to do just that. To encourage people in their unique gifts and talents, to equip through discipleship and leadership training, and to empower through prayer in the Holy Spirit. Our desire is for all peoples and all nations to know the redemptive love and grace of Jesus, to feel surrounded by a body of believers that will encourage, equip and empower them to continue to take gospel to the corners of the world starting in their own villages.
I would love for you to be apart of this great commandment to take the Gospel to all corners of the world.
In Him,
Bekah