Hello Friends and Family,
Since being home from the World Race I have moved to Gainesville, Ga. I
have an awesome apartment and I am living with 
my amazing roommate, Cindy who
also happened to be one of my teammates on the Race. I have been working
as a part time receptionist at The Children’s Center for Hope and
Healing. It is a Center that provides free counseling for kids and woman
who have been victims of sexual abuse. I have loved working at the Center
and thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the therapists who work here.
Two different opportunities have arisen in the last couple of weeks that I
can’t seem to turn down. I have been given the chance to return to Uganda
for two months this summer; June 8th-July 31st as a leader
for Real Life. Real Life is a program within Adventures in Missions (AIM)
that allows people from 18-21 years of age to go out and experience 1-3 months
on the mission field. Uganda was one of my stops on the Race and is where I met
one of my favorite boys from the entire trip, Otim. While I am in Uganda
this time I will be staying in a city called Lira. As a leader this trip will cost $1500.
The second opportunity that has presented itself is to work at AIM in a new
program that is starting in August. They are starting a “recruitment
team”; people who can go out to churches, schools, music festivals, young adult
groups and promote the World Race as well as Real Life programs. I would
be in AIM’s apprenticeship program. This means that I dedicate 6 months
to working as an apprentice in a chosen field; for me it would be on the
recruitment team; to see how I like working for AIM and the program.
Unfortunately, since I would not technically be on staff, this position
requires me to 100% support raise. The cost of the apprenticeship program
is $10,000. I need to raise that money along with the $1500 to finance my
trip to Uganda as well as my 6 months of training. In total I need to
raise $11,500 by January 2011. That is a lot of money and not a lot of
time to raise it in.
I am
writing you to see if you would like to partner with me in this new
adventure. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t scared. All of this;
leadership, support raising, recruitment team, it’s all scary and new to
me. It’s a world that I am afraid to enter. Asking people to
support me is one of the hardest tasks, but I would not be going to Uganda or
joining the apprenticeship program if I did not feel like God was calling me to
this. (Believe me! I said I would never support raise again after
the Race!) But, God has called me here, to this place, to ask you again
if you would be willing to support me. Not only do I need your financial
support in this new season, but I am going to need an abundance of
prayer!
If you feel led to support me financially/and or prayerfully you can
donate through my World Race blog site: http://audreypowell.theworldrace.org. I will be making updates to this
blog while in Uganda and throughout my apprenticeship with AIM! You can add your email to the section
called “Update Alerts” and receive updates automatically through your e-mail if
you want.
I love you all very much!
