A Call for Help…
Ok, here I am putting my
heart out.
This may come as a surprise
since I haven’t ever blogged about my finances on this trip, but God is really
speaking to me about trusting Him/Her to provide for me to finish this Race.
I currently need around $4000
in order to finish the Race. I’ve definitely struggled to ask for support for
this trip, which is why I’ve been quiet about my finances thus far. The truth
is, I’ve tried to put the burden fully on myself to pay for the World Race, but
through all of the people around me here, my team and the WR staff, God has
been showing me that I need to trust Him/Her to provide for and send me out to
finish this journey. I wish I could have been more proactive about this
earlier, but just assumed that I should bear the financial burden myself. The
World Race has helped me see, however, that especially with things like
finances, real faith means radically and completely depending on God to be the
Provider that He/She is and has always claimed to be. I’m learning more about
this reality of God’s character because He/She has been showing up in amazing
and unexplainable ways financially for the other people on my squad, especially
my teammate and brother Kameron. Twice now, God has provided in miraculous ways
through unknown people to keep Kameron on the Race. This is who God is and what
God does… God provides for His/Her people for the journeys on which God wants
to use them to bless the Kingdom.
So here I am, being obedient
to what I hear God saying through the people He/She has placed around me on the
World Race, and in my own heart. I believe with all my life that if God wants
me to finish the Race, He/She will provide the way. God has been showing me a
lot about why I am on the Race, the ways that He/She wants to use me to
challenge, teach, and encourage the people on my team and squad and those
within the communities we serve. Therefore, I know God will have a meaningful
purpose for me if (or shall I say “when”?) He/She provides for me to finish
this excursion. I left my life at home to give this year to God and His/Her
kingdom and I just want to continue placing it fully in God’s hands, trusting
in Him/Her to show me how He/She wants me to use it best for His/Her glory; and
right now, I’m doing everything I can to ride the waves of my teammates’ and
leaders’ emphatic insistence that finishing the Race is “how” God wants to use
me for His/Her glory for the remainder of this year that I have given to
Him/Her.
Well, here it is. If you
believe in what God has been doing through my life on the World Race this year,
I ask in humility and in faith that you look to God for how you can help me
finish the journey on which God has started me. If you believe, like I do, that
investing in me on this mission is really an investment in the lives of people
who desperately need God’s love and help, then please take that step of faith
alongside me. You have my promise that I am and will continue giving 100% of
myself in making the most of your money to bring everlasting blessing and love
to the people of the world.
So please, search your heart
for God’s voice about whether you can and should partner with me on this World
Race, this kingdom work. If you know anyone that might be interested, please
reach out to him or her. Even if you have given already, perhaps God would
bless you in helping again. Anything you would be willing to give would be the
best Christmas give I’ve ever received. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
for all of the wonderful love, support, encouragement, and prayer that you have
given to me thus far, and to come. May the Lord be with you and bless you
ever-more abundantly during this Christmas season.
If you are interested in
investing in the Kingdom through me on this World Race, please click on the tab
on the left side of this page that says “Support Me.” It will give you
instructions on how to give. All donations are tax-deductible. If you would
rather not give online, or have any questions at all, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks and God bless always.
With love and gratitude,
Tommy
