She Prayed for Boldness at 13. Now She’s Going to the Ends of the Earth.
A young woman from FBC Boerne is learning that her identity as a person of prayer and her calling to the nations aren’t two separate things — they’re the same thing.
She didn’t want to pray out loud. Not even close.
A year ago, Faith — a high schooler at FBC Boerne — would have told you that praying in front of other people was one of her biggest fears. Now she’s the one saying, “Yeah, I’ll pray.” Out loud. With people she’s just met.
That shift didn’t happen overnight. It started with a prayer she prayed when she was 13, a desperate, honest ask: God, give me the boldness to accept you, because I can’t do it on my own. He answered it. And He’s still answering it — one mission trip at a time.
From Mexico to the Middle East
In the past year, Faith has gone to Mexico twice on mission with FBC Boerne’s youth team and returned just weeks ago from a trip to a refugee camp in the Middle East — a region most people her age only know from news headlines or history class.
She almost didn’t go. Someone told her it wasn’t a good idea. Her family made nervous jokes about war zones. And honestly? She understood why. But somewhere in a Perspectives class at FBC Boerne, she heard a missionary describe a trip that was “a little out of the normal,” and something in her stirred. She walked up to a team leader and said, Hey — if you’re ever going somewhere like that, can you let me know?
A week later, she got the call.
What She Found There
The team arrived in a large Middle Eastern city and made their way to a refugee camp — tarps draped to form makeshift homes, dry ground, no jobs, few fathers. Mostly mothers and children who had fled a violent government and were now living in a place where, as one local described it, “there is no hope, there is no life.”
They came prepared for 40 to 100 kids. Two hundred and fifty showed up.
“I just had this overwhelming peace,” Faith said. She later connected it to Philippians 4:6–7 — the peace that surpasses understanding, the kind that guards your heart when everything around you is uncertain.
The team ran what amounted to a VBS — coloring pages, bracelets with the gospel woven into each color, a simple retelling of Jesus feeding the 5,000 using a folded paper that opened into a crowd. When the kids unfolded it, their eyes lit up. Many of them had never seen a coloring page before.
They had to be careful. Camp leadership was watching. The bracelets’ colors — including one representing the blood of Christ — had to be explained softly, quietly, in ways that didn’t set off alarms. The people they were serving believed Jesus was a prophet, not the Son of God. Every word mattered.
And yet.
When the team left on their final day, camp leadership — the people controlling access to the camp — pulled them aside. Are you Christians? they asked.
Yes.
You are welcome to come back. Any time.
On the spot, a team member asked: Can we come back for Christmas?
Yes.
“We still saw God move,” Faith said. “Even when everything was restricted. Even when we thought there was no way.”
Prayer as Identity
Through a Bible study she’s been doing with friends, Faith has been sitting with the idea that God gives each person not just a shared identity as His child, but a particular calling — something placed in them specifically for His purposes.
For Faith, that thing has to do with prayer.
She didn’t like that answer at first. You’ve got to be kidding me. I don’t even like praying. But she’s been leaning into it anyway. And what she’s found is that the more she prays, the more she sees — in Mexico, in the Middle East, in a refugee camp with 250 kids and a bracelet in each hand.
She’s now signed up for her fourth mission trip. South America, if they’ll have her.
She’s not done.
Hear Faith tell her story in her own words on the Sew That Missions Podcast — Episode 82, Part 2. Listen below or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Go, Pray, Give, Welcome
Faith’s story is one expression of what it looks like to take the Great Commission seriously — not just as a concept, but as a way of living. At FBC Boerne, we believe every follower of Christ is called to play a part: to go, to pray, to give, to welcome those who’ve been brought close. Faith is doing all of it.
If her story is stirring something in you — questions, curiosity, maybe even a little fear — that might be worth paying attention to.
Interested in learning more about missions at FBC Boerne? Visit fbcboerne.org/missions to learn about upcoming trips and the Perspectives class.
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