by Kayla Norris | May 29, 2021 | High School, Missions Trips, University, YWAM DTS
Dear Kayla-the-High-School-Graduate, I can see you at your kitchen table, surrounded by that pile of leis. You’re systematically opening each envelope, shocked when you find another wad of cash. Darling, it’s high school graduation. People give you money. Enjoy it. ...
by Kayla Norris | Apr 26, 2019 | High School, Missions Trips, University, YWAM DTS
What do I do with my life? It’s a question we all ask at one point, but now more than ever, we have an overwhelming amount of options. Not only do you need to decide what city to live in, but also what country. Not only do you need to figure out what school you go to,...
by Kayla Norris | Nov 16, 2018 | High School, Kids & Teaching, Missions Trips, University
“What are you going to do after high school?” At fifteen years old, I expected people would only ask me about my life’s purpose when I graduated. Nope. I had two whole years of high school to go, but teachers—and strangers—started asking me “What’s next?” as if it was...
by Kayla Norris | Oct 18, 2018 | Community, Loving Jesus, Missionary Kids, University, YWAM DTS
“Just go over to the house sometime, they’d love to meet you!” Fresh to Tauranga, New Zealand, friends had raved about the YWAM Furnace community. My new university was right next door to where their current Discipleship Training School was running, and I wanted to...
by Kayla Norris | Sep 1, 2018 | High School, The Creative Heart, University
Everyone has a way to creatively express their heart (whether they know it or not) and everyone needs somewhere to express it. This is a story of finding that somewhere. I’ve been a writer ever since I first awkwardly held a pencil and scribbled the letter E...
by Kayla Norris | May 26, 2018 | Kids & Teaching, Missionary Kids, University
“We can’t have unqualified teachers in the classroom—what’s the point of all the work we’re doing?” My college classmates had a point. New Zealand was shifting laws on charter schools, and one debate was whether or not teachers should be qualified. I’d gone...
