"One of the biggest things God taught me during this season was to walk in meekness and humility, allowing Him to shape my character through community, teamwork, and submission. He challenged me to trust the body of Christ and recognize that He can use the different people, leaders, and personalities around me to grow and refine me.

He also showed me that I can be fully myself while living on mission. I don’t have to become someone else in order to serve Him. I can bring my creativity, personality, and passions for art, people, children, and inner healing and place them in His hands, trusting Him to show me how and where to use them.

God also challenged me to step beyond fear, to stop for someone, begin a conversation, go somewhere unfamiliar, and say yes when He leads. I’m learning not to let past experiences speak louder than what God is saying about my future.

I’ve also grown in understanding the importance of prayer and intercession, learning to stand with others in prayer and humbly receive prayer from others as well.

I feel the Lord is teaching me to say: “Lord, everything I am, everything You have placed in me, and everything I am passionate about, I place it back in Your hands. Shape me, lead me, and use it however You want.”

I want to remain willing and humble, trusting Him to shape me, lead me, and use what He has given me however He chooses."

"God used Pioneer Missions School to teach me the meaning of dreams and visions I’d had for years. He showed and confirmed my calling and purpose. I now move forward with confidence I hear Gods voice and I am going to obey Him to bring His name to the least reached people’s. When I know God is leading me, I am fearless.

Being placed in family for 9 weeks of school, was God’s conduit for deep healing I only could have gained by this experience. God has created me to be a disciple maker and church planter, I saw in this school that His church is a family. I now have experienced the tangible healing and learned the practical skills to live in spiritual family and multiply healthy church family and leadership in unreached areas of the world, where Jesus wants to bring His Kingdom and invite them to His table.

At Pioneer mission school I learned that I was an intercessor and a worshipper. I realized we all are! As we enjoy Jesus and obey His voice the nations will be blessed. Missions is not a task to do from obligation to make God known. It is an overflow of a genuine encounter with Jesus and true love for Him.

I was called to bring Jesus to the nations as a little girl. Through many trials and difficulties I never reached my full potential and calling. After my time at Pioneer Mission School, God has shown me the way and prepared the path for me to step into what I believe I was created for."

"When I enrolled at Pioneer Missions School, I knew I was saying yes to more than just training. I was saying yes to lay down my life for the gospel. But nothing could have prepared me for how real that would become during our overseas phase.

We were serving in a country where it’s illegal to share the gospel. My partner and I were out prayer walking, scouting the land, and seeking God for strategy. It was supposed to be a quiet day of intercession. Instead, it became one of the most intense moments of my life.

Because we were foreigners, people kept approaching us for food, money, or just out of curiosity. Among them were two kids who, at first, seemed harmless. The first came and demanded money. When I asked why, he got irritated and walked away. Moments later, a second boy approached asking for the same. As I started to talk with him, I had no idea what was happening behind me.

The first kid had returned with a large rock about the size of a softball and was preparing to hit me in the back of the head. I never saw it coming. But my partner, who was staying spiritually and physically alert just like we were trained to do at Pioneer, shouted just in time. The kid dropped the rock and ran.

If my partner hadn’t spoken up, I could have been seriously injured.

That moment changed me. It took everything we had learned during the equipping phase about spiritual warfare, situational awareness, and boldness in persecution and brought it into real life. I understood in a new way what it means when Jesus said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”

Even after that, we continued on. God moved powerfully that day. Fear didn’t stop us because the fire in us was greater than the threat against us.

I came to Pioneer Missions School to be prepared. That day, I saw the fruit of that preparation. And I left more resolved than ever. This gospel is worth everything."