Hey everyone. I wanted to give an update of what I’m up to the next couple months and what God has been doing in me lately.
I am currently in Thailand, on route to Cambodia.
I finished my month of ministry in Myanmar on April 8 and made my way to the city of Yangon for a debrief with the whole squad. This was a good time of rest and learning for me. I listened to a lot of sermons during this last week and filled my head full of new stuff. Now I probably need to take a break from sermons and process it all.
I was supposed to be traveling through China for the next 2 weeks looking for new contacts for the World Race to partner with, but those plans changed. I am now going to be spending 2 weeks in Cambodia at a business as missions hostel in Siem Reap. We are going to be helping out around the hostel relieving the staff of some of their duties so they can put more time and energy into setting up a conference they are putting on. The conference is for 3 World Race squads so there will be over 150 people there. It’s going to be a busy time!
After that I will be going to Beijing for a few days with my squad and then onto Mongolia for a month of ministry.
God (as always) has been refining me. For a while, God was leading me to make an update video and post it on Facebook. I finally pushed through and made it. Since then I have made 3 more videos! I began being open and vulnerable with my squad and my friends on Facebook. Slowly I am letting people see into me and it has been a beautiful thing.
Last week a verse that was hitting me was Psalm 51:17 “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise”. I realized that I still have a lot of pride in my life. One of the ways I see it is by not allowing others to help me. I try to do so much on my own. We are meant to live as one body and allow each other to support our weaknesses. I’m learning how to be broken and contrite and allowing others to help me.
Lately Inhave been praying into what God has for me when I get back home. I have not had much direction for what I will be doing when I get home, but I have a lot more peace than I did a week ago about it. I was beginning to worry about my future and now I am very at peace with not knowing.
God is definitely still refining my heart and taking me to deeper levels. As I’m sure I’ve shared many times, I am often head heavy as compared to my heart side of things. I’ve been continuing to learn to connect with my emotions and feelings.
As a missionary, raising money is something that needs to happen in order to keep doing what we do. I want to be vulnerable with you guys. This has been the hardest part of my life lately. For the past 3 years I have been in a constant state of raising support as a missionary. In Bible College I wrote a paper on raising support and took pride in how easy it was going to be. In my mind I thought, “If you do x, y, z, people give money”. I’ve been humbled and have learned that there is no formula. It’s about obedience to God. I have been trying to follow all that I felt Him lead me to do and I am not seeing any fruition.
Currently I am at $556 of $9000 USD ($722 of $11,700 CAD) I am 6.21% of being fully funded and have about 10 more weeks before I’m done. I also have around $8500 CAD in personal debt and am in need of personal spending money. I am wanting to be humble, broken and contrite in all this. I have more questions than answers. I’m trying to be patient and wait on God to come through. If you have any encouragement for me, it would be super appreciated. I would love to hear stories of God providing!
I would love for you to Pray…
-For direction and God refining my heart.
-For money to come in for Support Raising for the trip, money to pay for my debt, and personal money to buy things like shampoo, toothpaste and other personal needs/wants.
-I have around 10 weeks left and I don’t want a day to be wasted. Pray for focus and that I would stay obedient to all that God is leading me to do and be.
-For my team and I while we are in Cambodia, that we would have many opportunities to share about Christ and that many people would come to Salvation. Pray for our preaching of the gospel to be backed up with healings and miracles.
-For protection spiritually, emotionally and physically.
Thanks for the support!
