Welcoming: Kate Mclean!

I'm so excited to inform y'all that someone else has joined our team!  Kate's a friend of mine here in Cameroon, but she is very different from me, being Canadian, athletic, and possessing a head of curly hair!  😋  JK, she has great hair.  I love playing with it.   She's awesome and I love her, and I'm sure you all will too.  She's going to tell you a little bit about herself, and she's going to help me out around here so that (hopefully you get more posts per week!)

My name is Kate McLean and I am currently in Cameroon, Africa with Ali Spangler. I am 14 years old and in 9th grade. I am an extrovert who loves to talk 

and is terrible at spelling. I was born in Cameroon in Ali's village and grew up home-schooled in a smaller village out in the bush. Currently I am in Yaounde going to a school here. I have two siblings, an older sister and a younger brother. My dad works as a linguist and bible translator, and my mom does pretty much everything else.

   I have a lot of things I like to do, but my main hobbies are crafting, reading, and sports. I am currently on my schools volleyball team, which just started

and we only have two and a half weeks left. If you were to ask me what my favorite sport was I would tell you soccer without a doubt. I am also in a group at school called Drama Evangelism. What we do is put on different skits that are about anything from Christ's death, to hypocrisy in the church, for people to watch and find an interest in Christ. I have always considered Cameroon home for me, and love my school and friends. Whenever my family goes on furlough we stay in Ontario, Canada with my family there.

  I have been learning over these past few years that I am in God's hands and what that means for me. I love to serve God, and I'm pretty sure I will be a missionary when I'm older. I've struggle with the feeling of belonging. I've hung out with a lot of people and consider them friends, but when I think about it I never fully fit in one group. In my first through second grade, I was basically the only girl in my class, which I was fine with, but a lot of those boys left for good or for furlough at the same

time, so I had to look for a new group. This continues to happen and I feel as if I belong to each group, but not fully. For a while I didn't realize that I believed that God couldn't make me belong, but upon realizing what I believed I knew it wasn't true. I now know that it is a blessing to have so many friends that are different, and that I belong in God's hands.

His will be done,

~Kate

P.S. My email is katemclean73@gmail.com if you want to talk, or have any questions. I can't promise a quick reply, but I will try.