I hesitate to even write this blog because I hate asking for money.
I am so thankful and excited to share with you the news that I am now fully founded. Although we have reached the goal of raising $16,265 I still need support with just daily living expenses. When I left home I left with a very limited amount of money and now that amount has been used. So I am seeking your help in prayer that The Lord would just move and stir hearts in helping finish and further the calling that he has me in, in this time and season of my life that he has so graciously giving me.
Also I’d like to take this time to just share with you a little of what God has been revealing to me and my heart about what he is calling me into after the Race. Which is soon by the way 😉 only three months are left of this incredible eleven month journey that I started eight months ago. For those of you who have been reading my blogs you are aware and know of some of the challenging things and lessons The Lord has been taking me through this year. Although this past month has been emotionally hard for me after hearing the news from home that my grandfather has passed from this earth I have already begun to experience God redeeming all of the pain and hopelessness that I have felt in this grief. Specifically last week while working at the hospital in Swaziland. I worked for a week in the children’s ward ministering to the sick children there infected with HIVs and other diseases and to their mothers. The scene at this hospital was heartbreaking. It was evidently dirty, the care poor and not up to date and the mothers spent all of their time by their child’s bed side, sleeping at night on a pice of cardboard under their baby or child’s hospital bed. But I am so thankful for the opportunity that I had to serve there and because of this week spent in the hospital it has made this past month of February in Swazi a memorable month for me. In this hospital I spent time with a woman who was in there with her six month old very sick dying baby, it breaks my heart to say that the baby did die this past week. But in those moments of ministering to her and praying with her I felt for the first time hope and thankfulness in my grief because I could relate to her pain and minister to her on a totally different level. I believe I have shared in a previous post about how much India blessed and broke my heart. And how that it is one of my deepest desires to return there in the near future and minister in the ministry that my team was apart of for that month.
After going so many places and being apart of so many different ministry’s I see and believe with even deeper conviction in the importance of education and the roll it plays in breaking poverty. After the race is over I’d like to go to Honduras and spend some time there with a friend serving with her family in the ministry that they do there. After that I am looking into doing a other program through AIM called CGA (center for global action). It’s a discipleship program for four months to a year. I know the importance of this if I am to stay in missions. I don’t know for sure yet if this will be the discipleship program that I will end up using, I’m also seeking other options, but as of right now it is very possible that CGA will be something that I will be doing after the race. I also want to go back to school for nursing. My desire is to be an over seas nurse. So these are some of my thoughts and things that I’m praying about. Even though I don’t have absolute clear direction in which one will be my first step, it is clear that I will need to support raise and anyone who has done missions for a long period knows and understands the challenges and difficulties this brings. So I’d like to start this process now and do what I can from here. Also I wish to just share and say that I’m so beyond thankful to all of you who have stuck through this with me, supported me both financially and through prayer and all of your encouraging words through comments on my blogs or personal messages that you have sent to me. You all play such a special and important roll in this journey. So thank you!
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With love
Colleen
