My name is Lucy. I am 27 years old, I come from a family of 6 and I grew up in the small Southland town of Gore in the South Island of New Zealand. I grew up in an incredibly loving Christian family and I love and value all my family and extended family a lot. When I was 19 I was diagnosed with epilepsy and have been taking medication for it ever since.
I trained to be a teacher in Dunedin before beginning my teaching career up North in Auckland. After 2 years there I took some time off to travel in the US and Canada. In Alberta I participated in an outdoor pursuits Bible school course in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.It was the most amazing and challenging and funnest experience of my life so far. While there God revealed to me a passion to help children who have been trafficked into sex slavery. When I got back from Canada I started a new teaching job in Ashburton, near Christchurch. After a couple of years of not really knowing the direction I wanted to take in life and putting my passion for helping trafficked children on the shelf, I quit teaching to return to study. This year, 2013, I started studying toward a Bachelor of Counselling at Laidlaw College in Christchurch. Best. Decision. Ever.
My aim is to use counselling to help children in aftercare services. Earlier this year I visited Africa and also South East Asia. Both of these trips highlighted for me the need for the light of God's love to be shone into the dark corners of the earth. There is such a great need for aid in these places and the inequality and injustice in the world makes me so mad.
I love reading, tramping, listening to music, rock-climbing, kayaking, travelling the world, meeting the locals, jumping in puddles, hanging with my friends and family, playing board games, 500, puzzles, mountains, watching movies, trying new things, the beach, Crunchie Bar ice-cream, collecting magnets, going to musicals, caving, going for walks in the evening, Bindi (our beautiful beagle) and the fact that even though I can't change the whole world I can change someone's whole world.
My life in a few hundred words.
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Photo: Gorgeous children I met in Egypt, January 2013.
I trained to be a teacher in Dunedin before beginning my teaching career up North in Auckland. After 2 years there I took some time off to travel in the US and Canada. In Alberta I participated in an outdoor pursuits Bible school course in the Rocky Mountains of Canada.It was the most amazing and challenging and funnest experience of my life so far. While there God revealed to me a passion to help children who have been trafficked into sex slavery. When I got back from Canada I started a new teaching job in Ashburton, near Christchurch. After a couple of years of not really knowing the direction I wanted to take in life and putting my passion for helping trafficked children on the shelf, I quit teaching to return to study. This year, 2013, I started studying toward a Bachelor of Counselling at Laidlaw College in Christchurch. Best. Decision. Ever.
My aim is to use counselling to help children in aftercare services. Earlier this year I visited Africa and also South East Asia. Both of these trips highlighted for me the need for the light of God's love to be shone into the dark corners of the earth. There is such a great need for aid in these places and the inequality and injustice in the world makes me so mad.
I love reading, tramping, listening to music, rock-climbing, kayaking, travelling the world, meeting the locals, jumping in puddles, hanging with my friends and family, playing board games, 500, puzzles, mountains, watching movies, trying new things, the beach, Crunchie Bar ice-cream, collecting magnets, going to musicals, caving, going for walks in the evening, Bindi (our beautiful beagle) and the fact that even though I can't change the whole world I can change someone's whole world.
My life in a few hundred words.
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Photo: Gorgeous children I met in Egypt, January 2013.