Livi Cate Osborne, AWBC 2023 MC Scholarship Recipient
Livi Cate Osborne is a Freshman at Mississippi College this fall, 2023. She has been awarded the AWBC Scholarship for the year. We were so pleased to meet her and hear the calling of the Lord on her life. We pledge to pray for her as the Lord opens His will for her in the future.
Here is a copy of God's call on her life.
"In the months before my junior year in high school began, I had been praying to God asking for guidance. I was starting to consider colleges, and I had no idea what I wanted my major to be or what I wanted to do after college. Then, on August 22, 2021, I felt God calling me to be a missionary. I was at a Youth Retreat when the speaker asked us to bow our heads and pray for just a few minutes in silence as a way to reflect on what God had taught us that weekend.During that prayer, God answered my questions about my future by calling me to be a missionary. God called me through the Great Commission. Soon after I realized I happened to be wearing a pair of pants I had gotten during a mission trip to Ecuador. It was a beautiful coincidence that also solidified my wandering thoughts. It confirmed that I had just spoken the words to myself, but that they were divinely placed in my mind.
The year that followed this calling was filled with many reminders of the calling of God in my life, along with instances that I did not then realize were going to be as impactful as they were. I happened to meet new people who were either current missionaries or were on the track to becoming missionaries. I became more devoted to Christ than I was before. For the first time in my life, I had a disciplined devotional in the mornings. Through this I realized that the beginning my day with God brought and still brings me so much joy.
After my junior year of high school, I was just beginning to explore the calling God
had asked me to live my life in accordance with. The summer before my senior year, i started to apply to Mississippi College. During the application process, I had a chance to speak with my head pastor, David Ethridge. I explained how I felt God working in my life, and he asked me the following question, 'At this point in your life, do you feel as if following any other path would be almost disobedient to God?' This opened my mind to how deeply I felt this calling, and I agreed to the question he asked.
After this ultimatum, I decided to make a public commitment to full-time vocational ministry. On August 24th, 2022, I shared this with my church. The purpose of this was to share with them how God was working in my life, and to ask them to join me in prayer as I follow where God leads. I am pursuing a major in Christian ministry, specifically missions. Now that I am in college at Mississippi College, I am studying Christian Studies with a concentration in Missions. I cannot wait to see what God has in store for me, but for now I am simply following where He leads."
