Hi!

If you're here, you probably already know me but if not, I'm Anna Peterson and I'm a missionary!

Ever since I was a little girl I've known I've wanted to be a missionary, since then God has gripped my heart that everyone would know Jesus and His loving kindness.

Growing up I  was a born and bread ministry kid, day in and day out I practically lived at the church so whenever my family got deeply hurt by the very thing that I thought was home, my whole world came crashing down.I assumed that if the church didn’t love them then God must not and that’s when I went head first into whatever the world had to offer me.

Lo and behold all I found was that everything the world had to offer was a quick fix with a quick turn around and it all lead to me being more ashamed, addicted and depressed, turns out numbing can only go so far.

After a few years of me trying it all on my own, I became suicidal and I knew if God was really real, He would be the only thing that could save me.Luckily my mom sent me to summer camp and that’s where everything changed for me, God met me in the middle of my mess, He redefined what relationship looks like with Him and I found the freedom and love that I had craved for my entire life.

After that I couldn’t be silenced, I had to tell anyone and everyone I knew about Jesus and that’s when God punted me into the mission field.From 14-17 I went to 10 countries all for missions and not a dime of it was from my parents, all of it came from supporters and by the grace of God, from then on I knew that this really was what I was made for.

At 19, God called me to Circuit Riders and three years later im still serving and running with them. In the past 3 years my eyes have been opened to the very heart of God to my generation. I’ve seen blind eyes open, mass salvation on Ivy leagues, I’ve had the privilege to personally walk, train, and disciple some pretty amazing leaders on these college campuses across America.

I truly believe my generation is on the cusp of a Jesus awakening, Christianity for the last 10 years was on a decline but as of this year, it is on the rise and that’s because young people are radically encountering Jesus and His love.In places where people have only known hopelessness, heaviness, and purposelessness, people are finding the very God who made them and are finding what they were made for.

With that being said my role in CR has been quickly advancing in leadership and I now have the privilege of leading the NYC region pastorally and logistically. This last year in NYC we saw over 202 salvations and 14 healings and there is continued and sustained movement on these campuses.

My Role Practically.Since I am a apart of a YWAM missional community we host training schools called DTS ( Discipleship Train Schools ) to grow and develop leaders from all around the world so that they can then apply those skills to wherever God calls them, whether it be the marketplace, a local church, or the mission field.So while I am planning tour and in contact with college students, we also have over 200 leaders in California getting training for our upcoming tours that I get the privilege to plan. 

From Aug-Dec we onboard college students on their campuses who are believing God for revival, we then hop on bi-weekly zoom calls to disciple, train, and mentor those students, in October we then visit our college students to invest in them relationally as well as host prayer gatherings and evangelism trainings for the upcoming Tour starting in JAN.

In Jan we start our 8 week long Carry the love tours where we do campus wide events that unify all the Christian clubs on the campuses we are on and create a welcoming space for the lost to come and encounter Jesus’s love, not just that, but we provide trainings and empowerment to create long lasting effect on the campuses we are on.

That’s a long story short of who I am and what I get to do, there so much more to all that goes into it but if you’d like to know more I’d love to connect personally over a call or coffee to also get to know you and what your heart burns to see God do.

May the lamb receive the reward of His suffering! 

Love you, Anna.