I’M BACK! The holidays, finishing up school, and fundraising/planning had me on a bit of a blog break. But I’m finding my new rhythm and this small beginning has been big in excitement, so I wanted to do a post with a full mobilization update for all of you.
Key first thought coming.. WOW. I don’t know what, exactly, I expected for this process but so far, it has been an incredibly rewarding learning curve. The Lord has been meticulous, steady, and kind throughout all fear and wonder. A massive THANK YOU to friends, family, and supporters who have already jumped into partnership with me and want to support what God will do in and through me and my team overseas. I’ve been so blown away by you guys. It doesn’t go lost on me for a moment. I know that I’ve been called to this venture and God is calling a team of people to stand by me, as well. Thank you, endlessly, for answering that call as I answer mine.
Sometimes this page isn’t quite up to date, but in total, I am about 25% funded!
With any long-term project, it is easy to start off with a bang and then level off and fall into complacency, but I am working hard to reject a spirit of pride or anxiety and instead, operate from a place of full trust in the Lord. He is the God of provision and I am quite literally putting everything I have in that simple fact.
When I was wrestling with whether or not I was being led to pursue the race, God told me how hard it was going to be for me. This journey goes differently for everyone, but at least for me, I didn’t see it as this wonderful, grand adventure.. Not at first. He told me that it would stretch me. A lot. And sometimes, that would hurt. I heard that over and over. And for a while, selfishly, that’s all I could focus on. The challenges. The combat. The things that don’t feel good. After a while, I realized that I had been cutting God off. The second half of what He was trying to tell me was that it will be worth it. Every tough thing WILL come. It will come and He will be there to meet it when it does. But this whole thing is just something He is using to build me and glorify Himself, and I can’t think of something more important to struggle for. His JOY is right on the other side of any pain that’s coming!! THAT makes me so excited.
“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.” (Mark 8:35)
There is still so much to come and SO much to look forward to. Again, I really am feeling just about every emotion at once – But all things considered, I am just rejoicing in this process. I know this season won’t last forever and someday, I’ll be sitting in my kitchen, drinking coffee and journaling about the time I knew in my gut and heart that Jesus wanted to work out some things in and through me, but I was scared it wouldn’t happen. I’ll be looking back and recounting how God wrote every small detail of this time and then worked it all into fruition.
It’s going to come. This is just one giant leap of faith, folks. Thank you SO much for being here and being a part of it.
truly, kier
