You know the feeling when you've delayed in keeping in touch with someone? It's much easier to avoid them rather than trying to take the initiative to share everything going on in life. That's how I've been these last few months, my apologies, but today is a new month and new day! So here is life in a nutshell:
- Exactly one month ago, some close friends and I got in a really bad rollover accident, dodging an animal on the interstate. By the grace and provision of God, we all miraculously walked away with minor injuries.
- Last week, a few friends and I went to North Georgia/North Carolina to spend a week in the smoky mountains. I got to spend time in Ebinezer Baptist Church, Martin Luther King Jr–a hero of mine's church he grew up in. It was a beautiful change of scenery and pace, reading, exploring creeks and waterfalls, breaking in the chacos (:, and getting away from the business of life.
- While on said trip, I had $1,500 donated, bringing me over my second deadline of $6,500 which is needed to launch in July! Huge deal guys, praise the Lord.
- With that being said, my 3rd deadline is $11,000 which is due October 1st (3 months onto the field). And then my 4th and final deadline is $15,500 which is due January 1st, 2013 (6 months onto the field).
I want to take some time to thank those who have supported and given to this journey. I am so humbled and thankful for each and every one of you and your desire to invest in my life and the lives of the least of these around the world. I'm asking for 25 friends to donate $25 from their next paycheck this week. What this will do is bring me to about the halfway mark in my over-all funding. If you're able and feel led to do this, the donate page is on the left of this blog, and you can fill everything out there. Make sure to leave your address, as I have a book by John Piper I would like to give you.
I want to leave you with this statement, in a super rad book recommended by Suzy, current racer in Romania, shameless plug.
"I believe we are at the front edge of another missional, monastic-like order made up of men and women, many of whom are in their twenties and thirties, burning with a passion to serve the destitute in slum communities of the developing world—not from a position of power but from alongside them, living in the same makeshift housing, breathing the same sewage-tainted air, subject to the same government bulldozers that threaten to raze their communities. They are new friars, flying just below our radar because they have not come under any single denominational or suprachurch banner." -Scott Bessenecker, The New Friars
Thank you once again for your continued prayers and support!
