ROMANIA | Tirgu- Mures
As the finance person for our team I am in charge of all the money and keeping track of where it goes and making sure it all adds up correctly. Using my fifth grade addition skills I have been able to do this successfully through the months. This month in Romania is a tough month financially. Being a more western culture prices are more comparable to America and henceforth more expensive than our budget allows. As a team we have constantly been praying about these finances and asking that God provide. Carly and I sat down a few days after being here and started inputting our expenses. At the end of all this, I realized that we had too much money. Shrugging it off as a small mistake with keeping track I righted it with the books and moved on. Two days later I decided to check the finances again, making sure this time I was over conscious about all money things, receipts, and what nots. And again I had too much money, exactly 10 lei over what I should have. I again shrugged it off, until our team worship like 10 minutes later. As I began to pray, God sent this realization to me, that I had not been making a mistake in my money counting but that HE had been multiplying our cash. I know this sounds crazy but it is true. I immediately told my team who was estatic and we began to pray more specifically for free bus rides and on sale groceries. That afternoon Carly and I went to the store and what do you know but got a free bus ride there AND BACK (which never happens). Then, when we were at the store I had a specific list of items that we needed and every single item on the list was on sale, EVERY SINGLE ITEM! CRAZY RIGHT?
God is such a big God and so after seeing him provide in little ways we decided to pray over our finances as a team and individually. With everything together we need a total of $152,802 from everything like Cars, computers, and phones to plane tickets, wisdom teeth pullings, and gas money. I know it sounds like a lot but we all know that God will provide!
