Who I Am

Hello friends,

I wanted to share a little bit about my life and who I am with y’all.

I am (as of yesterday) 24. I have lived 98.5% of my life in Texas and currently reside in the heart of Dallas. I live with a good friend from college and our two adorable pups (mine, Olive, is pictured below).

I graduated from UNT in December of 2016, following which I had an opportunity to intern in Washington, D.C. for 4 months. This was one of the first transitional moments of my “adult” life that sparked a change in who I was as a person and who God was calling me to be. 

Prior to September of 2017, the last time I had stepped foot in a church was for Easter Sunday in 2015 of which was a remotely located Cowboy Church in Austin. The service closed with Roy Rogers’ “Happy Trails”. They served Breakfast Tacos too #YeeYee

I was raised in the Southern Baptist Church and misidentified my relationship with God as my relationship with the church I was attending and, in true teenage rebellion style, stepped away from it all circa 2012. My recurring line was “I’m not sure what I believe, I’m just not ready to figure it out yet.”

Cute.

God said:

“Bet.”

To connect the dots now, I was invited to a Tuesday night young adult sermon that JUST SO HAPPENED to be in the church right behind my office (God is so funny) and I was wrecked from that point on.

Shortly after I was introduced to a wonderful church by the name of Shoreline City located a hot second away from where I lived as a wee lil’ babe and that was that. I rededicated my life to Jesus on 10/29/2017 after a sermon over Surrender and Sacrifice. I was educated on the difference between church, religion and Jesus very quickly and here we are now.

I’d like to share a little more intimately that everything I asked him and everything I was praying for initially was met with:

“Not never, just not right now.”

I asked about my job, I asked about my location, I asked about my dating life, I asked about pruning friendships. You name it – whatever early 20-something question I asked God to answer it was that same. stinking. thing.

“Not never, just not right now.”

I stopped asking for answers and just pursued Christ and tried to strengthen my relationship with him and my community. In March I got a small little

“Now.”

One month later it was revealed to me just what that meant. 

God has been shaping me and molding my heart every so slightly over these last few months until I was “ready” to digest the bigger things he was calling me to do – mission work. 

Thanks for reading about me and if you want to know how you can support me in this journey you can:

– subscribe to this blog

– donate in the link above

– pray for me and my team

– check out my Instagram for other fundraising opportunities I will be putting on:

@allieabooboo

I love you all and I can’t wait to share more during this road to the race!!!