Joe Barnes Blog » Africa Mission Trip http://www.suprajoe.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:50:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 DR Congo, Africa Mission Trip June 19 – July 4 – Update March 10th http://www.suprajoe.com/archives/36 http://www.suprajoe.com/archives/36#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:44:09 +0000 Joe Barnes http://www.suprajoe.com/archives/36 Today was awesome. I had to go into the church office to drop off a couple of laptops I was working on for the new system we have. I’m sitting there talking to Zak White and Kristi West comes up to me and gives me a check from the church for the upcoming Africa Mission Trip. It was $500.00!!!!! WOW!!! The Connection Church is an awesome church and God is really doing some fantastic work through our church. If you do not have a church home and are looking, please go to the website and check us out!

]]> http://www.suprajoe.com/archives/36/feed 2 Melanie is AWESOME – Africa Mission Trip http://www.suprajoe.com/archives/34 http://www.suprajoe.com/archives/34#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:32:50 +0000 Joe Barnes http://www.suprajoe.com/archives/34 So here is the deal. I was suppose to have $2100 and change ready by April 1st so I can get my airfare for the Africa Mission Trip. We finally got that money and was ready to write the check when I got another email a couple of days ago saying that the price has changed to $2631, if I pay this week. Well, I don’t have $2631. Melanie and I did our taxes and we are getting back some money and now plan on using that to help pay for this, but I am not sure if we are going to get it in time. I wrote a blog about the Mission Trip and money and not stressing, but that is easier said than done sometimes. So, of course me being me, I started to stress out again. I talked to my mom about it yesterday and she basically told me to “chill out” and God was going to take care of it all. (I love my mom, she always has a way with word when it comes to me.) So, I chilled out and decided things would be OK.

Here is where Melanie comes into the picture. She comes home today and starts crying. Says that she has to talk to me. If you read a couple of post back about her selling her sewing machine. She put $1000 towards the mission trip, $1000 towards her parents 50 year anniversary, and $1000 towards our 10 year anniversary. We were going to renew our “love for each other!” So she tells me that she is being selfish and that we don’t have to prove our love to each other or anyone else. This Africa Mission Trip is more important to her than us spending $1000 on “proving” our love to each other and everyone else. We both know that we love each other….why spend $1000 on it? So she is paying the rest of the amount so we can write a check next week. All I can say is WOW!!! God is an AWESOME God and my wife is an AWESOME wife.

Not with all that said…this $2631 is not all the money that we have to come up with. I STILL NEED HELP!!! HELP…HELP…HELP!!! If you want to know more, look at my other blogs in the “mission trip” category. If you want to call me and talk about it, please email me at joe@suprajoe.com and I will email you my phone number. If you want to send money via paypal…here is my paypal account: joe@suprajoe.com. It doesn’t matter if it is $5 dollars or $50 dollars. This money is going to help send me and a team to DR Congo. I am going to setup a computer lab for a Methodist Seminary. You should really read the other blogs.

God Bless Your Day!!!

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