Hi, I’m Charlize Terletter!
In my senior year of high school, I decided to graduate in December rather than May and move to California to join Circuit Rider's January D.T.S. I spent three months in Huntington Beach growing in my understanding of the Bible, evangelism, worship, and intimacy with God. Afterward, I spent two months in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. I went with a team of twenty-one on-fire men and women of God. We traveled to six different islands, visited college campuses, and put on events called Carry the Love. We trained students in evangelism, encouraging them to share the gospel on their campuses.
Since being back, I have decided to join Circuit Riders as a full-time missionary. Circuit Riders is a movement of young people who want to impact their generation and see a move of God like never before. They go to college campuses and high schools, calling students to see their schools as mission fields. Circuit Riders started in 2011 at the University of Southern California. Since then, they have reached college campuses in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. They want to save the lost, revive the saved, and train them all. They go to campuses during the spring semester, splitting them up into two tours. During the second tour of 2026, we went to East Africa (Burundi and Kenya), South Africa, Eastern Europe (eight countries in eight weeks), Australia, the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, and the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Altogether, we saw 14,033 students gathered, 3,711 salvations, 40 healings, and 6,674 students signed up to take some form of action to reach their campuses. My team specifically saw 874 people gather and 740 salvations.
Since being back, I’m reminded of Romans 10:14-15: “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” Forty percent of the global population has yet to hear the gospel, and 801 out of 7,393 languages have a Bible translation. Suicide, depression, and anxiety rates are rising. When I look at the news, I am confronted with the depravity of this world. I sit in prayer and ask God what the solution to the problems we see in every sector of society could be. Every time I hear in a gentle whisper, “The gospel.”
In our humanity, we carry a pride that thinks we can change the world God created. We believe that a temporary solution can solve an eternal problem. When you look at history, society tends to go in a circle. There is change in morals; an old habit is viewed as immoral, people push for societal change, and a hundred years later, the same society is faced with the same problem. No human philosophy can change a man's corrupted heart; the philosophy was created with a corrupted mind. Only the creator can change his creation. Only the gospel can change the world. God's asking for people to go. He's asking for people to love to the point of laying down their lives. I can not stand by and see a generation die without ever knowing true life.
In order to be a full-time missionary, I need to raise my personal income through monthly support. I am asking you to come alongside me in fulfilling the Great Commission. There are those who go, and there are those who send. We are called the body of Christ; we each have a different function that works toward the same goal. Everything given will go towards rent, groceries, hygiene, and personal bills.
Thank you for taking the time to read and supporting me!
Charlize