Dear friends and family,
Once again I am reaching out to you one last time before I depart on my mission trip for nine months. I may or may not have sent you my previous fundraising letter back in march, If I didn’t and you would like to read it just email me for it please ([email protected]). The last letter I had written was about what I would be doing in each of my stops around the world. This letter is geared more towards to what I took home from my experience at training camp and how God spoke to me during the ten days I was there. The week and a half at training camp was jam packed full of lectures, sermons, both Physical and mental challenges to test our strength and perseverance, and most importantly intimacy with God. It was an overwhelming ten days to say the least, my squad and I had an immense amount of challenges thrown at us. Unfortunately not everyone who attended made it through however they definitely learned how much bigger God actually is. Since training I’ve had such an intense feeling of this is exactly what the Lord wants me to do in the next chapter of my life. This is the most confident I’ve been in my decision of doing this mission since I’ve signed up. I can’t even begin to explain how ready I am for the next chapter of my life.
At training camp Adventures in Missions really stressed the importance of intimacy with God. This is something that has seemed to be completely overlooked back home in most church communities. Being a Christian isn’t just showing up to service on Sundays or church functions throughout the week. That’s pointless, It doesn’t matter because your salvation was already given to you when Christ gave his life. Being a Christian means you have a flourishing relationship with God, He is all around us and he is always speaking to us it’s your choice whether or not you take a step back and listen. By no means am I bashing on the people that have yet to experience the type of intensities of God I just recently experienced. My focus however is that salvation is given to us as Christians but a relationship with God is something you have to work for everyday. Most of us keep God in this little imaginary box that we look into, squandering his overwhelming power, grace, and beauty. I learned that I had to remove him from that box to understand exactly how humongous and powerful He is. With this new found knowledge I am more than confident that I can take this mission on head first and really allow God to use me to His fullest potential on the Race.
With this new eye opening view on God, I want nothing more than for it to be time to depart for my first country with my new family God has given me. I am blessed with such a huge opportunity to be able to travel overseas and serve my Lord and I can’t even begin to explain this excitement bottled up inside me. The only factor stopping me is that I am still not fully funded. I currently have $7,748 funded of the $14,951 needed to make this possible, and I need $10,000 to depart on the 8th of September. I am reaching out to all of you one last time in the hopes that God will place it in your heart to make decision to help support me whether it is emotionally, physically, or through funding. Anything at all will help and I hope you decide to make the decision to partner with me financially to help fulfill God’s calling for me overseas. God has provided so much this past year and I am sure He will continue to. My $10,000 deadline is August 30th and I need to be fully funded by December 31st, 2017.
If you feel led to give, please visit my blog at colepehote.theworldrace.org. There is an orange donate button on the homepage that allows you to donate by credit or debit card. If you want to mail a check, please make it out to Adventures in Missions, and write my first and last name on the memo line. Then mail the check to Adventures in Missions, P.O. Box 742570, Atlanta, GA 30374-2570.
Adventures in Missions is a tax-exempt organization under IRS code 501(c)(3) and is a member of the ECFA. (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). Due to IRS and ECFA regulations governing the administration of tax deductible donations given in support of a particular trip/program, support contributions given on behalf of an individual will be used to offset the costs of the trip/program you are involved in. All contributions are non-refundable regardless of the participant’s success in completing the program.
If you’ve given already, thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. If it weren’t for you I wouldn’t be where I am now. We aren’t all called to go overseas to serve God and live a life of missions. But some of us are called to make that happen for someone else. You’re doing the Lord’s work either way. But, whether you’re able to help me financially or not, please keep my team and I in your prayers. The World Race will be a beautiful, Jesus filled chapter of our lives and it will be undeniably challenging.
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Thank you so much again, Cole Pehote
