The Lord is awesome! I’ve been stressing out about how I am going to get the money to go on this mission trip and instead of stressing I let go of the stress and am letting God take care of it. So this is what has happened in the past couple of days. Melanie sold her nice sewing machine for $3700. We have 3 big events coming up soon. 1. Africa Mission Trip. 2. Her parents 50th anniversary. 3. Our 10 year anniversary, we are renewing our vows. So Melanie has put $1000 towards the Mission trip and the rest is being divided up between our anniversary, her parents anniversary, and our church. Is God AWESOME or what? Oh, and it gets better. I sold my motorcycle a couple of months ago and yesterday put my riding gear and some other stuff up for sale. As of right now, I have made around $600 and I haven’t sold everything yet.
I think there is a lesson there. When you start stressing out about something (money, job, relationship, marriage, kids, etc.) your focus moves from God to these other things. When in fact, if you would just give that stress up to God and ask Him for His help…..He will answer. It might not be the answer that we were looking for, but He will answer.
I have a great opportunity to go to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa this summer on a mission trip. I have already committed and invested, along with others, for this trip. I have never done a mission trip over seas before. This will not be my first time over seas, or even Africa at that. When I was in the Marine Corps I lived in Japan for 3 years and travel all over. Anyways, my job on this trip is to help setup a computer lab for the Methodist Missions Seminary in Mulungwishi. What is really cool about this mission trip is most of the other volunteers are people that watched me grow up. My former pastor is the leader of this mission trip, Roland McGregor. I am really excited and nervous at the same time. Lately I have been more stressed about the trip more than anything. Why, well, it cost money to do this. The trip is going to cost around $3200 for me to go. I have $1000 already dedicated for this, but I just found out today that I need $2400 by April 1st.
So, what do I need? I need prayers! If it is God’s will for me to go then it will happen. I need you to pray for me and ask God to calm me down with the finance issue. I is hard for me to not stress out on something like this, so I need those prayers! I will keep posting as time goes on about this mission trip.
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