Farewell

So if I ever finish packing... this is it. Thank you all for all the support and encouragement you have offered of the past several months. My brother will be manning the blog while I am gone, and posting the daily prayer requests. Here's todays

Safe Travel into London. I and 5 other team members travel to London today and we have a 19 hour layover. Pray that we have good weather in our departure and destination cities. Pray also that during this layover we begin building good relationships and that we have encouraging conversations that prepare us all for the weeks to come.

Pray that no children are abducted today in Uganda and pray that even just one makes it home out of captivity today.

Wow

It seems as though that change in the heart behind my prayer was all God was waiting for because I received the remaining $700 I needed in funding and I can now praise God in proclaiming I am fully funded and excited and much less nervous to go now. Thank you prayer team for all your prayers!

I'm going to be taking a little break from all things media related for the next few days and really zone in on what God would have me see about Him and my relationship to Him. I will be saying a little good-bye Thursday morning on here before I leave, and my brother will be posting the daily prayer requests on here. If there is a day that God really moves on your heart to pray for something specific please feel free to share that with me, I will be keeping a detailed journal and I will hopefully be able to share with you what was happening around that time that you were being urged by the spirit to pray.

So THAT's the big picture...

So I was reading "A Hole in Our Gospel" by Richard Stearns, the President of World Vision and all of it makes sense now.
He was talking about this time of desert land he went through in his life with 14 months of unemployment, in today's economy that doesn't sound like much now, but during that time he learned to depend on God fully as he studied the Israelites and how it took the Israelites 40 years to learn to trust God for that manna.
I was turning this over in my mind, all the while for a few days now I've been trying to figure out why it feels wrong to pray that God will provide for my trip. I know He is the great provider and that after all this He will provide, so then I know I should be praying about this issue... but maybe not in this way.
So then it sudenly hit me. I need to be praying for FAITH that God will provide not so much that He will provide, and as I do that I am already thanking Him for the miracle that I know he put into motion before I even thought I was going to Uganda. I just need to wait.... faithfully.

So please pray with me that I will have faith.

God IS faithful

I know our God is a faithful God, and He has been so faithful over the past few months with everything. Now I'm getting scared though. Because in addition to being faithful I know God does things we don't understand. I'm 5 days away from leaving. But I figured my final paycheck and the donations I have currently and then included the money not included in ground fees that we need to have to cover meals, etc. I still need about $700 before Wednesday. I never recieved that much money in donations in one week... I'm terrified right now. I don't know what I'll do if I don't have enough money. I'll really fit into the culture. I'm supposed to go and help though... not fit in. I'm so torn and frustrated and stressed. ugh!

Pressure Rising

Wow it's been a little while since I updated.

So here's where I'm at. 8 days away, I'm feeling excited, a little anxious, overwhelmed, blessed, encouraged, scared, all the while I'm anticipating watching the hand of God at work.

I still have about $930 in funds I need to raise. So I'm anticipating watching God perform that miracle. I'm physically exhausted and tired - I've had issues with the endometriosis this last month to the point where I had to make a little trip to the ER last week. I'm feeling a little better, but I now am confident that whatever strength is needed to finish preparing to go and complete the work He has for me there... is all through Him, because I'm really just tired and want to sleep (so I am going to bed soon. )

I was very encouraged tonight at church though, I was given an opportunity to share during church about my trip. The church prayed over me which moved me so much I was choking back tears the whole time. Then after church I had several conversations that all brought up different aspects of ways I need to be preparing spiritually and personally and be praying over and then also these specifics I can extend out to the prayer team.

Getting closer and God is good

So there was some worry about not being able to get one of my medications that has been keeping me healthy. Insurance was having issues and so I was going to have to pay $385 for it. I have littereally not a dime to put towards that, so I was pretty concerned about what to do, because not taking this medicine could mean that I would get sick again and not be able to even go to Uganda. So I had asked a lot of people to pray about this and I came home after church and was listening to Harvey (at Living Stones in Reno NV) in an old sermon talking about when Jesus said to "consider the Raven" I had a friend who has been through the same treatment and told me to come over and she had started using a cheaper version of basically the same medicine, cheaper to the tune of $30/ month. So far it's working the same. I'm so grateful to our AWESOME God who provides and sustains us, even when we forget that He will.


Just a reminder, this update is for those curious minds, not to guilt or manipulate in anyway. If anything it's to share in the joy of God's abundant faithfulness.

I still have 8 prayer supporters, out of the goal of 10

So as of right now, I have $1120 in donations. God has shown me that I need to pay for at least 1/3 of my trip, so that brings me up to $2285. I need $3537.90 in total.

Uganda update

Just a reminder, this update is for those curious minds, not to guilt or manipulate in anyway. If anything it's to share in the joy of God's abundant faithfulness.

I still have 8 prayer supporters, out of the goal of 10

So as of right now, I have $720 in donations. God has shown me that I need to pay for at least 1/3 of my trip, so that brings me up to $1885. I need $3537.90 in total.