I just want to share my heart with all of you in fundraising.
I used to struggle a lot with always trying to do things. I tried to fix things. I tried to earn things. I even tried to compete in things. I always had the mindset of do, do, do.
In August, God very clearly spoke to me. He told me to stop doing and simply trust. That was a fairly new concept to me. I thought God, are you serious? If I don't do things, then nothing will get done. That means I wouldn't have tried at all. But God taught me this lesson anyway. Every time I tried to fundraise out of my own strength, it all fell apart. I kept feeling like a failure because what I did never worked.
My team called each other to pray, and I honestly thought it wouldn't work. At that point, I had never really seen prayer answered to that extreme. Regardless, we prayed, and the next day God answered. He provided $2,000 for me in a small window of time. That's crazy!!!
God has answered every prayer for 3 deadlines. The final one is coming up March 1, and as of now, I need $5,000. I tell you this not because I'm panicked but because I actually do trust God this time. I'm not stressed out about it because I know He is in control. If I don't reach the deadline, it's because God wants me home. If I do, then I know without a doubt that God needs me here on the mission field. Either way, I have a peace because our God is sovereign; He knows it all. $5,000 is a drop in a bucket to Him. Nothing stands in the way of our God, not people, money, or impossibilities.
So I'm asking you to pray. If God stirs your heart to help, awesome. If God softens your heart to pray more, even more awesome. To all of my supporters, known and anonymous, thank you tremendously for everything. God has used you to bring me this far in the race. We are almost halfway through and I have lived an amazing adventerous life for months. This is definitely a once in a lifetime chance, and I am so thankful to have come this far.
