I don't need an advanced degree to serve God.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.  Ok, I've been thinking about this probably since college.  Not precisely about not needing an advanced degree to serve God as I wrote in the title of this post, but about what the heck I've supposed to be doing with my life.  A few years ago I applied to teach English overseas but didn't go.  Then I decided recently to look into GIAL and possibly pursue a degree in World Arts which would be appropriate training for using arts in missions.  I've also been considering going back to school to study art therapy.  But let's boil this all down.  What is my desire?  To use art to love people and to love God.  Ok.  And I love the idea of international missions because I grew up overseas.  So why am I continually putting this off to consider more graduate studies?  I'm seeking God's call on my life.  But what does that look like?!  I don't know.  I do know that songs like "Oceans" make my tears well up about following God and walking out in faith further than I could on my own and further than I could imagine.  I do know that today at church my eyes welled up as they spoke about missions.  I don't think it's homesickness.  It used to be homesickness or a desire to run away.  I don't think it's that anymore.  I think there's more to it than that.  And I don't need to keep pursuing more education that costs lots of money, I just need to go.  Obviously I'll need to take some time to prayerfully consider this and see if it's the right way to go.  YWAM has a Discipleship Training School in Thailand called Create, and they have a visual arts for missions program that comes after that.  That is a year long commitment to do both, and completing a DTS is a pre-requisite for the Visual Arts for Missions program.  Cost for the 6 month DTS is about $3000 and the cost for the VAM program is just a little bit more ($3120).  This is money that would need to be raised, but it's something I would like to prayerfully consider.