When I first started fundraising I would always tell people I don’t know why they call is FUNdraising because it is not fun at all. Then I started to realize that it wasn’t fun because I was trying to do it all. I was going in a million different directions trying to beg people to donate. Then finally God smacked some sense into me. I took a whole day and just spent it with God. Reading and learning all about who he is and what he can do. That’s when fundraising became fun for me. since then, every day I wake up and go to bed I spend some time in prayer and in reading the bible. The two things that I pray about constantly is that 1. I will not try to take over again and that he will calm my heart and mind so that I’m not overwhelmed. I am the type of person that if I get overwhelmed I shut down. I stop doing the work altogether until someone pulls me out from my dark spot. For me to be able to raise all the money that I need for the worldrace I cant go into my dark spot. The 2nd thing I always pray about is that the money will come in when it most glorifies him!! Now this one is a little bit harder to pray about because that means I am giving God the permission to have a touch of the dramatics. By praying this though I have realized that I am doing mission work right where I am at before I even go on the worldrace. I am helping God open up other peoples dream because when they see what God can do through me they get inspired to chase after God themselves!!!! That is what makes fundraising so much fun and encouraging!!!
Tomorrow is my first deadline for the Worldrace and surprisingly I am not freaking out. Now for any of you that know me know that I have a touch for the dramatics. So for me not to be freaking out and obsessing is a huge step for me. But as I am sitting here writing this I know that God is going to do what he promised. And he is going to do it when it will most glorify him. And I’m okay with that. I’m excited to see how that $900 will come in by tomorrow evening!!
