About Me

Hi there! My name is Rachel Wilson. I’m 18 years old, and have a mom, dad, and two older brothers. I come from the little town of Zionsville, Indiana. Zionsville is a pretty small place; at least to me it feels that way. When driving down Main Street you’d see cute little village houses, unique shops, and a Bentley dealership stuck between the liquor store and the Dairy Queen.  Life is good here, not many know what it’s like to have struggle surrounding them.
 
       You may be wondering, ‘Why have you decided to embark on this journey?’ Thanks for asking!
      
       I didn’t know I wanted to do this until I had already decided I was going to Indiana University. I was making all of the necessary plans, I even had a roommate picked out and had made my deposit. I officially was a student of IU—but something about this plan did not feel right at all.
      
       There was something tugging at my heart, a gut feeling if you will. Something was telling me no. That something was also telling me, get on the Adventures in Missions website, check out that trip your brother told you about. So I did, and I soon realized that something was God. He was tugging at my heart and whispering for me to slow down.
 
       The more I thought about doing this trip, the more I fell in love with it. I thought about how this would affect my life, my future, and even though I thought I would feel panicked, I was just excited. I wanted to leave right then, I wanted to go make a difference.
        
All my life I have felt this undefined pressure to make good grades in high school that would get me into a prestigious college, to ensure that I would have a good job, so that once I graduated I could get married and have a family that I could support. For a lot of people this is their dream.       
 
I still want all of those things, but right now my dream is just a little bit different. My dream is a world where every individual knows that they are loved. My dream is that no child in Africa, Southeast Asia, or Central America is forgotten about. My dream is that God’s children know they are loved unconditionally and completely by Him and that He will never leave them.
 
             
       Thank you for sharing this dream with me and supporting me in my dream….
Here’s some fun facts to lighten the mood:
-I can’t chew a whole piece of mint gum without it upsetting my stomach
-I am obsessed with my 20lb cat
-I wear a retainer
-I have never been outside of the country except to Niagara Falls and the inside of my Cancun beach resort
-Before I could drive I rode a moped around to get place to place
-I’m on a never-ending quest to find the world’s best fried pickles