Greetings from Antigua, Guatemala!! It is a beautiful city with lots of beautiful cobblestone streets.
We have been here since Tuesday for debrief with our coaches, Seth and Karen Barnes.
Three of our teams, including mine, will be heading out at 2:30 AM tonight/early morning and will end in Granada, Nicaragua, where we may be staying for a few nights before we head to Ometepe, Nicaragua. My team will be working with an orphanage for the next 4 to 5 weeks in Ometepe, which apparently is a beautiful island!!
FINANCIAL UPDATE:
Praise the Lord for His provision! Thank you to all my supporters and prayer warriors!! With the actual cash in my account and the pledges, I have met my goal of $13,800!!!! God has been so faithful in providing me the opportunity to take this journey of a lifetime! And I am so blessed by all that have been supporting me both financially and in prayer!
If I raise another $800, I will be able to be reimbursed for things such as airfare to Launch, immunizations, and my health insurance.
I also want to give you an update about my financial obligations at home. I currently have enough money in my account at home to cover the expenses through October. So, please continue praying for the Lord’s provision to cover another seven months!! He is faithful to provide all that I need as He has shown me over the last four months!!
RANDOMNESS UPDATE:
I often find myself wandering around feeling the need to pinch myself to wake up from this dream that I am living! I am living with some of the most amazing women that I have ever encountered and am blessed to be so much more of God’s creation! Who knew that there was so much outside of Ohio!?
The delightful part of this journey is that the Lord is molding me into His image with each breath that I take.
“The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said, ‘Go down to the potter’s shop, and I will spek to you there.’ So I did as he told me and found the potter working at his wheel. But the jar he was making did not turn out as he had hoped, so he crushed it into a lump of clay again and started over.” Jeremiah 18:1-4
More on this later, but this is the process that the Lord is doing in me. He is molding me into an image that is far more beautiful than what I used to be.
THANK you to all my supporters, family and friends!! I could not do this without you!
This is my beautiful family!! Aren’t we adorable!??
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