This time last year I was in Uganda, Africa sitting in a tin roof home on a chair infested with small roaches.
Now I am in Gainesville, GA sitting in my home that overlooks a lake on a wooden chair that isn’t insect infested.
Two totally different places…
two completely different homes …
One is way more physically comfortable than the other…
One is way more physically safer than the other….
Both are the same.
What the Lord called me to in Africa and what He has called me in Georgia is the same: Bring His Kingdom.
Bring Him glory.
Both places I felt inadequate in my positional leadership.
Both places I had no idea what the next step will be.
Both places I worshiped Him…
Both places He loved me.
I think I forgot for a second that no matter where I am, my mission is the same:
Reach out to those who feel unseen, love those who are broken, pray for the sick, hug the lonely.
It doesn’t matter if it’s in State or out, everyone needs Jesus.
Everyone needs someone to see them…
A big difference I have noticed being home in the States is trusting the Lord is a lot harder, especially with support. It’s so much more exciting to tell people about seeing a lion while doing ministry one day than saying we baptized someone in the lake in my backyard. At least, that’s what I was lead to believe.
When I moved to Georgia, my support dwindled significantly. People stopped asking what day-to-day life looked like. For some reason it became less exciting that people were getting saved in State than it is that people were being saved in a 3rd world. It became less exciting for the people back home and for me.
Why? Why does it become that way? Less adventurous? Less romantic? But in reality, the Lord just snatched a soul out of the fire and hell of 1st world lies.
My ministry was easier in Africa. It’s harder to love my actual neighbor. It’s hard to trust that the Lord will provide in a society that says I have to provide for myself. It’s almost impossible to show the 1st world we don’t truly need or want money, sex, or possessions. It’s hard to hear their backlash in a language I understand…
In my home country, I’m less certain on how I’m going to afford to eat next month than I was in a 3rd world country.
But what the Lord taught me oversees is truth: He will provide. He always has, He always will.
So in that, I ask that you join me in this ministry He has me in now. I need prayer, I need support and I need finances. If you would like to walk alongside me in this please send me a message! I would love to talk to anyone who may have more questions. Also, I have monthly update newsletters and emails going out so if you have yet to receive anything and would like to, please let me know and I can put you on the list!
Thank you so much for everything that everyone has done for me in the past and walking alongside me to this point! I could not have done any of this without the love and support of each of you. I can never truly express how extremely grateful and humbled I am by ya’lls selfless love.
So Lord, do Your will. Use me in any way You want. Bring more into a relationship with You. Provide Lord for what You want to do in and through me and those You have called to ministry. Forever Yours…
