So I am going to be extremely honest.
Fundraising has been hard for me. Asking people for money is way outside my comfort zone, and honestly, I put it off for as long as I could. But through out this journey I have grown in so many ways with the Lord. I am gaining a better understanding of what it means to trust God has a plan. I am starting to understand that the amount of money I raise/people donate does not define my relationship with the Lord, and more importantly I am walking in the promise that God knows the exact day my 16,691st dollar will be donate. He knows. He has a plan, now its my turn to put in the work and do what the Lord has placed on my heart.
So heres how this cookie crumbled.
As I was scrolling through social media one day I realized we were exactly 102 days away from training camp! As excitement ran through my veins, the chills slowly made their way down my back quickly turing excitement into fear.
“if you start to fundraise people will get annoyed.”
“no one is going to donate to you.”
“the amount of money people donate is directly influenced by their view point of you.”
“you cant make that poster, your handwriting is terrible. who would donate to someone with bad handwriting?”
As silly as these statements sound, they have been on repeat in my head for 22 days now.
a lot of my squad mates have been doing fundraiser called “adopt a square.” So what you do is make a poster board with 100 squares on it, and people “adopt a square” and donate the amount of money that is on the square. at the end of this fundraiser 5,000 dollars will be donated. pretty sweet, right?
When the 100th day until training camp came I was going to do this fundraiser and try to get one donation a day. It doesn’t sounds too hard, and if the Lord put it on my heart then He had a plan for it, right?
Well I allowed fear to get the best of me.
I am now 78 days until training camp, and this idea has not left my head.
I woke up yesterday morning and God literally told me today is the day. get over your bad hand writing and go make that poster.
Since my mom is a school teacher I looked in our garage for a yard stick (the lines have to be perfectly straight, or everyone is going to judge me, right?)
I couldn’t find one in the garage and after looking for 30 minutes I literally said out loud, “God if you want me to do this, you going to have to provide something to measure this thing out with.” (kind of secretly hoping I wouldn’t find anything and I could put it off another day.)
Then I walked in my house and sitting on the kitchen table was a tape measure.
“I get it God.” I said, as I started to measure out my poster board.
I love how God is so faithful. That tape measure was probably sitting there all morning.
Thank you Lord for opening my eyes to see something that I looked over so many times.
With out further ado, I want to introduce you guys to my newest fundraiser (bad handwriting and all)
Adopt a square!
If you want to pick a square to adopt comment, text, message, etc. and I will send you how to do it! 🙂 (also since squares can only be taken once i will mark them off and update the picture!)
Point of the ramble: God called me to do something. I have been scared, yet He made it happen. This is just a tiny insight on how the Lord has been using preparation for the World Race to grow our relationship. So friends, 78 days until training camp, 100 squares to get adopted. Is the Lord calling you to be the next person to be a part of advancing His Kingdom?
you guys are absolutely incredible and I am thankful for every single person that has donated. I am even more thankful for the God we serve together. He is good. He is faithful.
Be humble, stay hungry
MP
Psalm 107:1
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! His faithful love endures forever”
