It's Worth the Sacrifice

Catching a snake in the dorm, being a mother to fifty girls, bartering in the marketplace, handing out food to villagers during the drought, being “bit” by a cheetah, coping with homesickness, and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro were just some of the adventures and challenges Valerie faced as a student missionary at Maxwell Adventist Academy in Kenya.

What Valerie didn’t expect during her year abroad was how much she fell in love with her adopted country and how difficult it was to adjust to life...