EMI
These past four years have been life-changing. My time at Virginia Tech has been filled with happy memories and rough times, but through everything that I’ve experienced here I have grown in my relationship with God. I have learned that community and fellowship are important and that it is essential to have people who love you and encourage you to be the best you can be in Christ. This I have found with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Virginia Tech where I led a girls small group this past year. I have also learned that God does things when and how for a reason and that His plans are perfect, things may not have happened the way I envisioned them, but I’ve learned so much from the detours God brought me. I will be earning my Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech in June and am choosing to first explore the uses of engineering in the mission field before getting into the corporate world. My previous missions experience through trips in high school and my last two spring breaks has influenced my decision to undertake a longer missions experience using my engineering degree.
I have been given the opportunity to intern with Engineering Ministries International, EMI, at their world headquarters in Colorado Springs this Fall for four months from mid-August to mid-December. EMI is a non-profit Christian organization of technical professionals who provide free design work for development projects for Christian workers around the world. Since starting in 1982, EMI engineers and architects have designed over 700 projects in over 85 countries. I will travel with a group to a developing area, which I do not yet know, possibly the Middle East, China, Africa, or Mexico, to initiate the design of a needed ministry facility, like a hospital, church, school, orphanage, or water system. Then I will return to the Colorado office to help complete the design for that project.
Please pray for me as I prepare for my trip, for EMI and their work world-wide, and for the local ministry we will be designing and working for. I specifically want to ask for prayer for this is a new transition in my life, leaving college life and the community I found at Virginia Tech and entering a new place. As a non-profit organization, all EMI staff including interns raise money to support them while working. My Colorado internship will cost about $5,500 which covers travel costs and living expenses. If you feel led to support me financially please make checks out to “EMI” but due to tax regulations do NOT write my name on the memo, return it in the return envelope, and send in the response card by August 8th. You can also give online at https://emisecure.org/donate.html, just put my name in the designation (Victoria Mah- 2715). All gifts are tax deductible.
I am excited for this opportunity to use my engineering education and knowledge to serve and help others. I am also excited to spend time in Colorado Springs and to learn from the people at EMI professionally and spiritually. I hope that my time abroad will open my eyes to new cultures and experience the global church. If you would like more information about EMI (www.emiusa.org) or would like to talk to me about my internship please don’t hesitate to contact me. Thank you for supporting me in this new adventure.
Trusting Him,
Vicky Mah
I have been given the opportunity to intern with Engineering Ministries International, EMI, at their world headquarters in Colorado Springs this Fall for four months from mid-August to mid-December. EMI is a non-profit Christian organization of technical professionals who provide free design work for development projects for Christian workers around the world. Since starting in 1982, EMI engineers and architects have designed over 700 projects in over 85 countries. I will travel with a group to a developing area, which I do not yet know, possibly the Middle East, China, Africa, or Mexico, to initiate the design of a needed ministry facility, like a hospital, church, school, orphanage, or water system. Then I will return to the Colorado office to help complete the design for that project.
Please pray for me as I prepare for my trip, for EMI and their work world-wide, and for the local ministry we will be designing and working for. I specifically want to ask for prayer for this is a new transition in my life, leaving college life and the community I found at Virginia Tech and entering a new place. As a non-profit organization, all EMI staff including interns raise money to support them while working. My Colorado internship will cost about $5,500 which covers travel costs and living expenses. If you feel led to support me financially please make checks out to “EMI” but due to tax regulations do NOT write my name on the memo, return it in the return envelope, and send in the response card by August 8th. You can also give online at https://emisecure.org/donate.html, just put my name in the designation (Victoria Mah- 2715). All gifts are tax deductible.
I am excited for this opportunity to use my engineering education and knowledge to serve and help others. I am also excited to spend time in Colorado Springs and to learn from the people at EMI professionally and spiritually. I hope that my time abroad will open my eyes to new cultures and experience the global church. If you would like more information about EMI (www.emiusa.org) or would like to talk to me about my internship please don’t hesitate to contact me. Thank you for supporting me in this new adventure.
Trusting Him,
Vicky Mah