To all of my friends and family: I wanted to just send out a quick update to you all!
The Lord is so good and is constantly bringing me to new depths of understanding his love and the plans that he has for me. I couldn’t imagine my heart being more filled up than it is in this current moment, but God always promises more, because he’s that good.
Last month my team was in Thailand, reaching out to churches and ministries for the World Race to potentially partner with and send future teams to. We were in a really heavy area, full of a lot of darkness flooding with prostitution and sex trafficking, with a sad and substantial influence from naive tourists. Patong was a place people heavily discouraged us from going to, referring to it as hell. We took that as an invitation to bring a little bit of heaven to hell and press into what the Lord is wanting to do in Pucket, Thailand. We built some incredible relationships and walked away with five ministries for the WR to potentially send teams to in the future.
As of now, I am in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We had a squad debrief about a week ago, of which my walk on the race took an unexpected turn. I had the opportunity to step into a new leadership role for the remainder of my time on this journey. I was raised up, along with two of my other squadmates into the role of a Squad Leader. This means that rather than leading a team of 6-8 of my peers, as I have done for the last four months, I am now leading our squad of 43 other individuals. Our two “official” squad leaders, Kent and Erika, will head home at the end of the month, at which time myself, Brian and Karleigh will take on their roles as the raised up leaders.
I couldn’t be more honored to step into this new season of growth, challenges, and a whole new level of leading and loving on people. My race will look a bit different, potentially a decrease in the hands on ministry, and an increase in a bit more logistics. My heart fears time away from the opportunities to love on little kiddos and get down and dirty in the everyday ministry as often. The Lord has reassured me that I will always have that opportunity because that is what life is, finding balance through a constant choice to continue pressing into the overflowing of opportunities to love, they are everywhere!
Reflecting on the last four months, I sit in awe. I cannot believe that fully giving my heart to the Lord at training camp roughly five months ago has transformed my life to this extent. I learn something new about myself daily and what goodness comes from seeking the Lord with all of your heart. I never would have thought I would be stepping into leading our squad into deeper spiritual growth and love for one another at this point in my walk with Christ. God truly has transformed my life in more ways than I can explain. Every day my heart beats a little faster for the plans he has and the goodness that comes from them.
Thank you to each one of you for loving me so well through all of this. Thank you for your emotional support, and more importantly your financial support, because without it, I wouldn’t be here. Thank you for your prayers and for the constant encouragement.
As of now I am about 80% funded, which means you amazing people have helped me raise $13,000. I only need to raise roughly $3,000 to be fully funded by January. I know the holidays are coming up which makes things a little more difficult. With that being said, I would be more than grateful for anything that you are able to give. God is good and always provides. Thank you so much for loving me and supporting me unconditionally.
I love you all!!!
God bless
