I am Haley Rich from Clay, KY. The money that you see me raising is solely dedicated to a mission trip to Haiti. I need to have half($800) by Monday 11-21 and the full $1600 by December 31st. I want to thank you in advance for just getting this far to read a little about me and the life I want to pursue. Not for myself but more so for God. In fact, it's to His glory that this is even an opportunity for myself. My story is very long and with that being said, I want to just sum it up a little for you. Growing up in a home where it was no more then four walls, drug abuse/abuse and just brokenness: I discovered at a young age I wanted to be more then just ordinary. More then just mediocre. I knew there were homes in worst cases then mine but how could it be so? There has to be more. What's there to live for if it's anything less then what you could ever possbily fathom?  But in that I also battled with small mindedness and beliefs that I could never truly be more then exactly what I was surrounded with growing up.

*I'd like to mention that there's a lot that we aren't aware of with people we know until they tell us their story. There's more to someone then just what you see from the outside*

I grew up in a home where love was very seldomly shown(please note, this wasn't everyone. I was blessed with amazing grandparents and aunt/uncles & an amazing dad that did what he could to love and provide while on the road working) and Christ wasn't something that was ever spoke on or taught on. I knew at a young age, I wanted to help people. I wanted to see more and be more because I didn't want to be average. Nor a statistic. It was very important to me but in that, there were a lot of hard decisions I had to make to break a generational curse that had seemed to haunt me heavily. (If you arent aware of this, I highly recommend researching it and growing aware of it because it is in fact, very real.) Because of 
 a generous priest and his wife, I was raised up in their church in which I was saved and baptized. A few years after, my home life progressively and secretly(for the most part) grew worse and I fell off the path I was on towards Christ and what he wanted for myself. I found myself pregnant at 16 and completely distraught on how I could bring a kid into the society we live in today. With that being said, I had my daughter (Chloe Payge) and discovered she was the world. Children ARE our future. Our world fears bringing kids into what we now call a "sinful" and "horrible" place. Well, respectfully it's that kind of place because we've allowed it. We've sat back as parents and Christians and we've done NOTHING to contribute to change in our communities, much less overseas/states. We have allowed the world to impact our thoughts by thinking we can't and aren't big enough to enforce change.Frankly, a lot of us don't like change so why would we go out searching for it? Our world as a whole, needs more Christ and we need more families with Christ in them. Therefor, we should be building more families centered with him in the middle. Bringing children onto this path at an early age and being the examples we were truly called to be.

Okay.. rambling over. Where was i? Oh..Yes.

Although, it had been a rocky path from that day forward full of hard decisions, some stupid decisions on my end, and some selfish decisions I finally found where I belonged and where my heart truly was. It wasn't just being ordinary.It was in those places were people craved something so much more that they weren't even aware of(Christ, himself). It was where people who had NOTHING, valued EVERYTHING. That's where I was. Those were the people I wanted to see, help, mission, and connect with. And it's because I fell off my path, made mistakes, and chose to let Him make the best of a situation that wasn't so ideal; that I can tell you, I love Christ and I love that he truly showed me where my hearts desires are. I want to live after I've died. I want to be the change.

Life is exactly what you let Him make of it. What you allow Him to do with you and the dark places in life. Therefor, I ask that if you can and will donate to my cause to help change the world or be a part of change..that you do so with prayers. This money doesn't go to me, it's what makes it possible for me to go to Haiti to go serve for and under Christ. Thank you for listening and I am forever thankful for donations, prayers, or just even reading a small piece of my story!