Hello friends, family, and supporters!
As most of you know I went to Georgia for 10 days for training camp. So much happened I don’t even know where to start!
Ok, let’s start before training camp. My thoughts and feels! So before training camp I had been praying about what God was going to do in my heart. I really felt like training camp was going to be a time of healing. I had some anger and bitterness that I was holding on to and couldn’t let go. When I got to camp the first night we had a worship session and I cried my eyes out. Like ugly cried. I had all this anger that I wanted to give God, but I didn’t know how. While I was worshiping I saw a picture of Gods hand holding my heart. It was dry and cracked. Then he took a rag and whipped it, making it shiny and new. I felt in my heart that healing was about to take place. The next day I met with my squad coaches and prayed. I also cried, a lot. I finally was open and honest with God about the unforgiveness and anger I had in my heart. I let it all go. After about an hour of prayer I released it all to God’s hands! I can’t describe how amazing it felt to have God take away what I had been holding inside! I felt like a weight was lifted and I could breathe again! I was so excited and relieved to have broken chains that were holding me back! After my prayer time we had worship and I danced! Which says a lot because I am not the best dancer! To me though it wasn’t about the dancing, it was about being free. I felt like myself again. I felt like I could shout from the roof tops!
After breaking free of things that were holding me back I could finally come out of my shell. Meeting new people is something I have always struggled with. The night before I left for training camp I started to panic just at the thought that I was about to go spend 10 days with people I had never met before. I was worried they wouldn’t like me. I was worried I wouldn’t have anything in common with them. I was definitely worried about who would be on my team.(which I will explain later in the blog) All these fears went away after I let everything go to God. I even went up to people and introduced myself! Now being someone who is super introverted that was hard, but I did it! I began to feel comfortable around my squad.I made some wonderful friends that I already miss so much!
The past 10 days at training camp I saw total strangers become family. We developed a unity I have never seen before. We became a community, a family. Everyone on my squad was open and venerable. We laughed, cried, and bonded in ways I didn’t think we could. Training camp was an amazing experience for me. It has made me so much more excited to go do Kingdom Work with my new family!
Speaking of my new family, I have my team! So how it works is we have our squad. There is a little over 50 of us. As a squad we will travel to a country together. Once we are there we split off into our teams. Each team will go to a different ministry host that they will work with for the month. So I will be pretty much spending 24/7 with my team, but only see my squad on travel days. Counting me there are 7 people on my team. I am on one of the co-ed teams so there is 3 men and 4 women. I love my team already! They are such amazing people of God! I cannot wait to travel the world with them and share the love of Jesus! I will post a picture of my team at the bottom of the blog so everyone can see how awesome we are! (:
Now that I’m back from training camp I have lot of fundraising to do! If I want to launch in August I need to have $10,000 by July 22nd. BUT! All donations have to be done by July 18th so they have time to process. If I don’t make my goal, then I can’t go do what God had called me to do. That being said, if you would like to partner with me on this journey of sharing Gods love you can do so by one, keeping me in your prayers! I could use lots of prayers now, and when I leave. Two, if you would like to finically support me you can do so by clicking the support me button on the front of my blog. I am at $6,494! Which is amazing! I have such wonderful supports! Thank you everyone that has donated to my trip. Really, I would not be here if not for all of you. I will be doing some more fundraising this month so please keep that I your prayers.
I will post another blog update soon letting everyone know how things are going and where I am at with fundraising. Thank you all my wonderful supporters I love you all!
