Greetings. My name is Quentin Watts, and I want to sincerely thank you for taking the time to read my story.
I am raising funds to go on my first mission trip to Malawi. This opportunity is not random. It is an answered prayer.
God has been faithful to me my entire life. I grew up well provided for. I never lacked food, shelter, education, or opportunity. If I am honest, many of my hardships were what most people would call first world problems. Yet in the middle of blessing, I began to recognize something sobering about my own heart. I was comfortable. I clung to what was familiar. I gravitated toward what made me feel secure. I enjoyed serving when it was convenient, but I resisted when it required sacrifice, discomfort, or complete dependence on God.
The Lord began to confront that in me.
As I have grown in my faith and spent years serving in ministry, mentoring young men, leading Bible studies, and teaching the Word, I began to pray differently. I asked God to give me a servant’s heart that was not theoretical but tested. I asked Him to place me in situations where I would be uncomfortable and forced to rely fully on His character as Jehovah Jireh, my Provider. I did not want to simply preach surrender. I wanted to live it.
Scripture tells us that Jesus, God in the flesh, came not to be served but to serve. As a son of God and a servant and friend of Jesus Christ, I deeply desire to reflect that character. I want my life to mirror the humility, love, and obedience of Christ, not just in words but in action.
While I was praying for such an opportunity, a friend of mine who was also in prayer heard my name as she was seeking people to join this mission to Malawi. I do not see that as coincidence. I see it as confirmation.
This trip is not about tourism. It is not about having an emotional experience and returning unchanged to a life of ease. It is not about performing a good deed to feel accomplished. My prayer is that this would mark the beginning of a deeper surrender of my life to the mission of Jesus Christ.
I serve as a youth minister and am deeply involved in discipleship and community building. My heart has always been for people, for brotherhood, for evangelism, and for seeing lives transformed by the gospel. But I know that if I am to lead others into sacrificial love, I must first walk it myself.
Malawi presents an opportunity to step outside my comfort, to learn from believers in a different cultural context, to serve tangibly, and to grow in humility. I want to love my neighbor as myself, not selectively, but fully. I want my faith to stretch beyond familiarity. I want my heart to be softened, enlarged, and aligned more closely with the heart of Christ.
If you choose to support this mission, you are not simply funding travel. You are investing in obedience, growth, discipleship, and the advancement of the gospel. You are partnering with me as I step into a prayer God is answering in real time.
Your investment with fund our accommodations, ground transportation, round-trip flight, lost wages from taking time off work, and any vaccinations/medicine needs to keep us healthy! To start off the campaign I ask for you to donate at least $40 dollars but if not that whatever you can give! If we can get 40 to donate $40 that’ll be $1600 already! Thank you again!
