Hi!! I'm Elliot!

I'm 20 years old and from Charlotte, NC. Ever since high school, God has put missions on my heart. It started when I first heard about Youth With A Mission and after prayerfully considering it, I ended up attending their Discipleship Training School in September 2024, and following that I attended their Discipleship Bible School in September 2025. God really transformed my life through those experiences, taking me from being a lukewarm Christian without a real personal relationship with Him, to showing me His faithfulness and mercy and what it truly looks like to walk out in faith and be called His daughter.

I am so excited to announce that I will be serving for a year in Italy with Chad and Kameren Dalton who are missionaries there. I will be helping to share the love of Jesus in a small town called Urbino. I actually first met Chad and Kameren back in 2017 on my first trip to Italy and I remember being so inspired by them even then!! Seeing how involved they were and the work they were doing over there was just really encouraging and so cool to witness. They have been in Italy for over 10 years now and they have such a huge heart for the lost and for telling people about Jesus. I feel so blessed to get to go serve alongside them!

Urbino is a university city with a ton of students but really not much of a Christian community there at all, so there is so much opportunity!! We will be opening a café to bring community to a place that really needs it. It is very common in Italy for cafés to have little to no community feel, without really allowing people to hang out and connect. I will be serving coffees and pastries, building connections, getting to know the people there, and helping facilitate worship nights, Bible studies, craft nights, and many more opportunities to build community. I am passionate about cultivating a space that is warm and welcoming, a place where people can experience the grace of God.

I will be leaving early July - August to help start up the cafe and training.

Prayers are greatly appreciated as I step into this next chapter of missions.

If you have it on your heart to donate, anything is appreciated!! I am hoping to reach a goal of around $6,000

Here is a cost breakdown:

Visa and expenses to obtain- $500

Travel- $1,000

Rent/living expenses- $4,000

Thank you for taking the time to read this!! :)

Elliot