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How Paying Off $16k of Student Debt Started With a Post-It Note

How Paying Off $16k of Student Debt Started With a Post-It Note

by Kayla Norris | Mar 20, 2022 | University

I never planned on college. Even though I did well in school, I was raised in a community where it was way more normal to move to distant countries to tell people about Jesus. Why spend thousands of dollars on a degree you may never use? I was pretty humbled when I...
Dear High School Graduate: What I’d Say to Myself, 10 Years Later

Dear High School Graduate: What I’d Say to Myself, 10 Years Later

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. ...
10 Ways to Decide What to Do With Your Life

10 Ways to Decide What to Do With Your Life

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,...
How I Found My Purpose on a High School Missions Trip

How I Found My Purpose on a High School Missions Trip

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...
For Those Who Feel Out of Place

For Those Who Feel Out of Place

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...
How I Wrote 300 Blog Posts in 8 Years

How I Wrote 300 Blog Posts in 8 Years

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...
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