For my Interview I decided to follow closely along with my passion, Mission work. I thought who better to interview than the former Missions director Thom Dumas, he was so instrumental in my finding and developing my passion and organized the trip that delivered textbooks to Costa Rica. Thom inspired my passion but he also shared this passion with me, and his outlook on his experiences made me realize the greater purpose in mission work. I thought it would be best fitting to start off with the question of what made him realize his passion for mission work, and summed it up with “Probably be the first time I got involved with doing it, I didn't really want to. Because, I thought mission’s work was being beating people over the head with a bible. But as I've gotten older I’ve realized that's not what missions and we aren’t called to do that we are called to share gods love, and show people God's love by partnering with them …show more content…
Without Thom I wouldn’t have realized what mission work truly means, why we participate or that we don’t “get” anything from it. In the interview I asked him How he would describe peoples reactions after he helps them and he stated, “That's assuming that you're the one that's doing everything, and one of the things we talk a lot about is that we don't necessarily help people, we partner with people. We don't do missions for someone we partner with them understanding that everybody brings something to the table.” He has a point, a lot of people have the idea that mission work is strictly the bettering of one person. I can say first hand that mission work is so much more than what you can offer someone but what you both can offer and help each other grown in the process. The whole experience is gaining a new perspective on life, a life that humbles us and makes us see the beauty in