Micaiah Anderson

Hello! My name is Micaiah Anderson. My whole life, I have been deeply passionate about serving underprivileged kids on the mission field. When I was little, my mom would read me missionary stories, and when I was only four or five years old, she read me the story of Amy Carmichael. From that moment on, I decided I wanted to be just like her — serving kids in other countries who were living in dire situations. Even as an itty-bitty girl, I was passionate about sharing the gospel, from fussing over my little brother getting baptized to playing missionaries/martyrs with my friends.

As I grew up, I had the opportunity to experience the mission field firsthand through stateside missions, a trip to Southeast Asia, and by living in Uganda with my family. These experiences only reaffirmed my belief that serving children who have gone through so much is what I am called to do.

I chose to study psychology in college so that I could be better equipped to be a safe space for kids who have faced trauma — to be present with them and enter into their world. In May, I will receive my bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a Clinical Counseling emphasis.

I have been working with kids quite literally since I was a kid myself. In elementary school, I begged to help in the nursery. In junior high, I helped with elementary students. By high school, I volunteered in practically any capacity working with kids that I could — Vacation Bible Schools, Sunday School, mission trips, church camps — you name it. It brings me such joy to plant seeds in a child’s heart and to give hope to the most innocent among us. In college, I volunteered at a children’s hospital, served in children’s ministry at my church, worked at a church camp and a preschool, and helped start a program partnering my college with a local elementary school.

I was raised in a home where I not only had a wonderful mother and father, but parents who continually pointed me to my Heavenly Father. Even when life was hard— when we didn’t know how we would pay for groceries or how we would make ends meet— my parents would tell me to watch: watch God provide, watch God move, and watch His love for us. Even before I fully understood life’s hardships, it broke my heart to know there were children who not only had no parents but also did not know Christ. Now that I am older and understand more, my heartbreak has only grown for those kids who deserve the world but are instead placed in dangerous and horrific situations. That heartbreak has only deepened my desire to help them.

I am so excited to be working with Brand New Day in the Philippines. I am passionate about the gospel and about shining Christ’s light into dark places. I want to be a light that brings God’s love into people’s lives, and I want to invite supporters to be the hands and feet of Christ through partnership. I pray that God will use me to spread His love to every person I encounter and to bring hope, healing, and the truth of His unfailing love to the children He places in my path.