Ready for adventure

Tomorrow I head out for Cusco. Yay!! I'm so thankful to have this opportunity to serve with a team from Mississippi, spend time with the in country team, and see God work through us. I'm looking forward to the great things God is going to do.

These times God has given me in past trips have been so sweet and precious to me. These have been some of the times I have felt closest to God. It is always such a joy to see God at work through His people in providing medical care and see the Holy Spirit at work in the hearts of so many that are lost. Needless to say, I am excited for this coming week.

Please pray for our team in our travels. It's always an adventure going through customs with lots of medications, medical supplies, medical equipment, and dental equipment(and then there's the issue of all the checked equipment making it to the end destination with us). Please pray for team unity, safety(from the llamas and snakes, and elephants), and that we will be willing to be used by God and that God would prepare the hearts of those we share the love of Christ with.

I'm already pumped to come back and share about what God is doing in this ministry at my support raising event/party (it's at Dayspring Presbyterian Church Nov 8th from 6-8 pm). It should be a great time.

I'm going to end here since I should be asleep by now. Hopefully I'll have an opportunity to send out another update next week while I'm in Cusco.

Blessings!!

Update

Lots of friends and family have asked me for an update on my support raising process. So…..here it is. As many of you know, the time for possible departure to Cusco, Peru is coming very quickly. I am excited for the possibility of leaving for the field in February. Tentatively I will be going to pre-field training in mid-January. The training is a month long and will be held in Brussels, Belgium. After completing the training I will be heading off to language school in Arequipa, Peru. I will be in school for 4-6 months, depending on how long it takes me to learn Spanish. So…..I should actually get to Cusco in the summer of 2010.


I’m looking forward to what is ahead and eager to leave for the field. At this point, I’m in the process of finishing up support raising. God has already done amazing things, giving me so many prayer partners. He has provided 63% of my monthly needs and 67% of my one time need. God is moving things right along. Praise Him!! I still have $1100/month and $6000 for one time needs to go. In order for me to go to the month long training required to get to the field, I need to have 100% of my support in by the first week in December. Otherwise, I will have to wait till July of 2010 to go to the next training session. Please pray that all the support comes in by December.


God has opened a door for me to go to Cusco for a week at the end of this month with a medical team from Mississippi (yay for the Deep South!!) to work alongside the MTW team in Cusco. I’m looking forward to scoping things out and meeting the people who will become my friends and family for the next two years.
After I return home I will be having a support-raising event (November 8th from 6-8 at DaySpring Presbyterian Church). There will be dinner and I will be sharing about the ministry in Cusco and how I’ll be involved. All are welcome!!