alyssa farrell

Do you ever get the sense that something crazy is about to happen? You don’t know what… but you’re ready for something UNEXPECTED. Just...

STEP ONE Getting started: Youth With A Mission FAQ—What is YWAM? What is a DTS? Why are you doing this program? Hear my process for what...

When I was asking God how to share about my heart behind this next season of my missions school and outreach, he said to share my ice and...

It’s about TIME I told y’all the whole story. I love the metaphor of jumping into the deep sea. OCEAN DEPTHS. My heart. Here we go!!! I...

So, if you know me, you know I’m kinda wrapped up close and tight with color. It wasn’t always this way… not quite. Freshman year,...

Back when God didn’t have a face, the distance between heaven and earth felt cosmic. I could pray as hard as I wanted, but it didn’t stop...

I used to just believe the stuff right in front of my face. The stuff I could see with my literal, physical eyes. The stuff that makes...

I have the tendency to do something awesome and then get my little brother to do it later. I don’t know what exactly it is. Maybe I tend...

This past year, we felt dangerously out of control. Not like roller coaster feelings of exhilaration: Tightly gripping the seat for a...

Imagine the zigzagging line on a heart rate monitor, zipping up and down like lighting. This jagged course looks like a rugged...

“How are we going to do this?” I asked Autumn. We only had sixty dollars to cover a week of meals for the ten girls we lived with. In...

I keep running into Psalm 139:23a and the words create a havoc of images in my mind: "Search me, O God, and know my heart" (ESV). The...

I was determined to stay away from resolutions and hopes and goals at the beginning of the new year. I'm the type of person who plans...

The floor was not clean. Stretching my legs on the tile, I glanced up again at the screen above the check-in desk. My plane would start...

The honesty came in the slowness of the day. I had known the truth for a few days, was sitting in it, waiting for the reality to settle....

Two tables are pulled together, chairs pushed around. Room for everyone. Some faces are light with expectation, elbows on the table,...

It all comes back to fear. That's what I've been noticing, realizing. My struggles, insecurities, decisions—all are grown out of fear. To...

Father, I just want to tell You all the things on my mind. Because I’ve been in my head excessively—it’s oppressing me and causing...

I’ve thought about You. Thought about what life would be like without You. Could I close my eyes and imagine? Or could I hold my breath...

“Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable? Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all...