I just wanted to update everyone on a couple of things that have happened between the last newsletter and now.  By the way if you are reading this and haven’t gotten my newletter/postcard please email me your address at [email protected] and you will get the next one that goes out.  My first update is that I have gotten back in touch with my dad.  Praise God! It has been a while since I have talked to him and we are making plans to get together before I leave.  The second update is that I am almost at the halfway point in the fund raising department.  If God has put it on your heart to help me out, please click the Support Me botton to the left of this page or mail in a check to Adventure in Missions PO BOX 534470 Gainesville, GA 30353-4470 with my name in the memo line.  The third update is the yard sale this past weekend went great!!!  And the most important update..drum roll please……ITS OFFICIAL!!! WE ARE LEAVING ON AUGUST 9TH OUT OF JFK AIRPORT!!! I am so excited and so is the rest Team Benkadi!!  Thank you to everyone who has been supporting me through prayer and financial support.  God is truely doing a work in my heart.  He is preparing me for this journey a little more everyday. 

   Below are the lyrics to the song Solution by Hillsong United.  Music is a way that God really speaks to me and this song has been yelling at me lately.
 
It is not a human right
To stare not fight while broken nations dream
Open up our eyes, so blind
That we might find the mercy for the need

Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession

It is not too far a cry
Too much to try to help the least of these
Politics will not decide if we should rise
And be your hands and feet

Singing…
Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet
Yeah Yeah

Higher than our circumstance
You promised and you loved for all to see
Higher than our protest lines and dollar signs
Your love is all we need

Hey now
Fill our hearts with your compassion
Hey now
As we hold to our confession

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet
Whoa Yeah

Only you can mend the broken heart
And cause the blind to see
You erase complete, the sinner’s past
And set the captives free

Only you can take the widow’s cry
And cause the heart to see
Be the Father to the fatherless
Our Saviour and our King

We will be your hands
We will be your feet
We run this RACE for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be your light,
We will you light

We will be your hands
We will be your feet
We run this race for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be your light,
We will you light

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet

Whoa-oo-ooh
God, be the solution
Whoa-oo-ooh
We will be your hands and be your feet

We will run
We will run
We will run with the solution

We will run
We will run
We will run with the solution

We will be your hands
We will be your feet
We run this RACE for the least of these
In the darkest place we will be your light,

We will you light we´ll sing.
 
Thanks again to everyone for the support and prayer.  All my love.