Training camp is done, my current fundraising goal is met, my pack is packed, and launch is over. Sounds like there’s only one thing left to do, GO.
Preparations have been long and busy, many hours spent choosing equipment, worrying about what clothes to take and how on earth my life is going to fit into a 65L pack? Sometimes I am so busy worrying about the right now that I forget to take a second and really appreciate what I’m doing. As I sit here in the airport with nothing to do except think, for the first time in days, I’m finally doing just that. There are so many victories and achievements that have happened over the last few months that I have been too caught up in worry to celebrate.
I have raised over $10,000 in under 10 months, that is incredible. It is easy in this environment to forget how incredible that is and what a gift from God it is. Which is crazy, I’m surrounded by people who have all raised more money that we could ever have imagined, and instead of making me humbled and amazed at God’s goodness it made me complacent. I forgot that it was amazing, that I could not have done this on my own strength, that it is only possible because God has decided he wants me here.
Coming to this realisation this week was totally humbling, and has left me in complete awe. I sat in a room of 300 people preparing to leave for the mission field, who simply would not be have been there without the gracious provision of God. So even though I am not fully funded yet and still have money left to raise, I want to enter these next 11 months with this new mindset. I want to continue to be in awe of the favour and provision that has been gifted to me, and I want to never become complacent with anything throughout this journey.
‘Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshipped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”‘ Matthew 28:16-20
