I just sent out my support letters last Wednesday, and I have already received support! I'm so in awe of how God's hand is all over this trip. For those of you who do not know, I'm needing to raise about $10,000. I will have to pay for my apartment, food, train/bus passes, ministry expenses, etc. Did I mention I will be on my own?? That means, sadly, no parents to pay for my bills and necessities... this is how God is going to grow me though right? This is all apart of the "leap of faith". Letting God take over and trusting in him to provide for my needs. Seems so hard, but is it really? We seem to be able to place our trust in people.. friends, family, even acquaintances. Why do we find it easier to place our trust in people rather than the God of this universe? This is a question I ponder as I myself have a hard time trusting in Christ alone.
My prayer over the summer and my time in Italy is that I would place trust in Christ and not rely on my own strength but God's. Some other prayer requests would be:
- Raising close to or full amount of support
- That God work through me over the summer to prepare me for the fall (I.E., learning Italian, working on my heart to minister to the unsaved, even just being able to "go with the flow" with things that might not go according to plan.)
- That the Italians, the team and I will be ministering to, would have an open mind and heart about the truths we will be sharing with them.
There will be more prayer requests I'm sure as the summer goes on. Thanks so much for praying for me and for those of you who have and will be supporting me to go to Udine, Italy. I appreciate it so much! Y'all are such a blessing in my life.
