Preparation

I bought my ticket today from Nashville to Los Angeles.  I fly out early in the morning on September 30th.  I am heading for Guatemala City, Guatemala.  Then I will ride to Antigua which is where we will start our year of ministry.  

I cannot wait to be reunited with my squad mates and my team.  I haven’t seen any of them (barring some skype conversations) since we became a family at training camp.  I cant wait to see where God takes us and how close we all become.  

I have two weeks left of work.  The people that I work with have been the most supportive group.  I could not ask for better people to be surrounded with for 40 hours a week for the last two years.  I think that when I began this I didn’t think that it would be hard to leave work.  Who doesn’t want to quit work and travel the world for a year.  But now, it’s hard.  I love my coworkers and saying bye to them will be difficult but I know that we will stay in touch and there will be some real prayer warriors for me there.

I am having a fundraiser dinner at church this Sunday.  I believe that it will bring in support. 

I will be going to nashville early with my parents to take a mini-vacation.  We are going to stay awhile before I fly out on Thursday the 30th.  

Financially I am doing OK.  I would LOVE to be fully funded before I go.  The world race has allowed us to continue to raise funds while we are on the race but I believe that it would be extremely difficult to raise support when I am on the race.  I am putting all of that in God’s hands and really relying on God to provide like we are promised. 

Please keep me, my team, and my squad in your prayers.  We are all making our last push for fundraising before we go and making sure that we are all ready to be out of the country for an entire year.