I'm very active in my faith and have been at every school I have attended. I was a highly active member of the Advocates for Life club at Messiah University where I completed my undergraduate degree. Some of the activities in which I participated include praying outside a Planned Parenthood location in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attending lectures and seminars, and collecting donations for local pro-life pregnancy care centers. Now, I am active at my church in the Philadelphia area, especially in the foster and adoption ministry program. My family has been involved in foster care for the past 10 years and we are in the process of adopting a third child from foster care right now. I believe that caring for children regardless of their circumstances is one of the highest callings of the Christian life. This is also why I've chosen to pursue a career in medicine as a physician. I felt called to medicine and medical missions when I was still in high school. As I begin to learn about the development of the human body before birth and the miracle of life, my resolve is only strengthened. This is the most vulnerable point in any person's development. The fact that so many view this stage of life as insignificant and unworthy of protection is something that I will never understand. Many times, I become disheartened now that I am in medical school. How can people who are clearly well-educated and intelligent still deny that life begins at conception. As I draw nearer to the end of my first year of medical school, I'm starting to view my future career as a mission field where misconceptions and misleading rhetoric have become the norm. I hope to use my platform as an expert (at least more than most) to speak truth into the lives of those who would consider abortion and those that would recommend it to helpless mothers as the best option for their care. Now I am starting to see that the mission field that God has laid before me isn't in some far away country but instead is here with the people that are most vulnerable in my home state. I am extremely passionate about meeting the healthcare needs of those who are most vulnerable in our society. We are called to be doers of the Word and not hearers only. I believe that the church has heard the Word long enough and now it is time to be doing what we have been commanded to do, caring for the orphan and the widow and the least of these. To this end, my calling pulls me towards the children in need of a safe home and the mothers who feel that their only option is to kill their unborn children. There is no higher call than this. While the world is often gloomy and discouraging, I hold hope for the future that the church can rise up and care for these people if we follow the beckoning of the Spirit and the instruction of the book in which we claim to believe.