I’m sitting here enjoying my chai tea at Inman Perk Coffee in Gainesville, Georgia. I am actually here and I am starting the apprenticeship four days from today! Let me just tell y’all all about God’s crazy awesome provision!
At Searchlight (a convention put on by AIM for World Racers) a little over a month ago God told me to move to Gainesville. My plans were to live at home and get a job and work as much as possible to save up some money because well…I am a world racer and flat broke. I mean the practical thing would be to get a job and start saving up money right? I actually didn’t even really want to go to Searchlight because I felt like it was just prolonging the inevitable but I went.
I got home from Searchlight and to say that I was completely overwhelmed would be an understatement. Shortly after arriving home I decided to apply for an apprenticeship with AIM in Kingdom Dreams (the department that put on Searchlight actually). I knew that if I wanted to get to Georgia then I was going to have to do everything in my ability to get there. So I applied at a temp agency and the very next day a lady called me with the agency and then three days later they found me a job! This was just the beginning of God’s provision.
I started at the temp agency and working there was just another little season in my life. I ended up working there for three weeks and I was able to build some relationships just in that amount of time. It was a pretty sweet little season, like a sudden rain storm on a clear day. A few days before Searchlight they found another spot on my Mom’s hip so we were still dealing with the cancer stuff. I was apprehensive about moving to Georgia. The same day that I found out I was accepted to do a split apprenticeship with Kingdom Dreams/Admissions, I also found out that my Mom was cancer free…once again. The cancer stuff started on the race (in June) and has continued on but God keeps knocking the ball out of the ball park! I don’t know why I felt like that was an appropriate analogy for God healing my Mom but I’m sticking with it.
Thats a lot of information, lets reflect on it. So God told me to move to Georgia at Searchlight. I came home and applied for an apprenticeship. I was hired on through a temp agency for three weeks at a company and while working there I found out I was accepted to do a split apprenticeship with Kingdom Dreams/Admissions and that my Mom was cancer free. The significance of finding out about my Mom’s healing the same day that I was accepted for the apprenticeship was that God was confirming my call to Georgia and He was releasing me to go.
I had decided that I was defenitely going to move to Georgia at the end of February but I wasn’t too sure about starting the apprenticeship on March 5th because well…fund raising was not going well. I needed $3,000 to start the apprenticeship and I had $195 in my support account. The past couple of weeks at home was a constant roller coaster. I went from walking on the water to falling face down in the water. I went from leaping with joy to crying my eyes out. Every day was a constant fight against the enemy and his lies.
I was starting my last week at my temp job when I started to really analize and question if God was really in the decisions that I was making. I started praying for more confirmation and direction. I was getting confirmation from all kinds of sources and I really felt like God was telling me to move to Gainesville and to live in the community house and apprentice with AIM started in March and to NOT get a job to sustain myself. Okay God….do you not see my support account!? I decided to call Bill Swan, the head dude for the apprenticeship program and ask him if I could start the apprenticeship even though I didn’t have enough in my support account. I couldn’t get ahold of him though. On Saturday February 18th, exactly a week from when I was suppose to leave to come to Georgia I logged onto my support account and don’t you know that I had a $5,000 dollar donation from a complete stranger!!!!!! Goodness. God is so good and faithful! When you walk in obedience and in the things that He calls you to then He is going to provide, it might not be in the timing you expect or want but He will provide. Ya gotta believe dat yo!
God keeps bringing me back to this verse:
“Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him then they are?” Matthew 6:26
Don’t you believe that you are far more valuable to the Lord then the birds of the sky? I mean he did reach down in the dirt with His own hands to create man!
Just keep walking in obedience!
It’s gonna be good if its full of Him.
I still need $8,142 (the apprenticeship is $13,500 total) for the apprenticeship so if you want to come along on this wild journey with me then c’mon! You can send a check to AIM (specifying that it is for Alison Franklin) at:
Adventures in Missions
6000 Wellspring Trail
Gainesville, GA
30506
or you can click the Support Me! button on the left hand side of my blog to donate.
The Community House that I will be living in with five other women:
