He's Got Us Covered!

I am so excited to announce that my WHOLE team hit 100% in our one-time gifts goal! It has been quite a week. God is so good & faithful to provide... He knows the best time to provide, too. 

Most of my team, while still confident and positive, has felt the struggle of raising support pretty acutely the last couple weeks with a lot of unanswered phone calls, unresponsive emails, and stagnant numbers, as well as several very difficult personal things going on as well. We were doing our best to stay focused and motivated, but it's just been hard.

On Wednesday night I received a text message from one of the team leaders from the other Moscow STINT team who lives in Texas. She said that she had $5,700 EXTRA in one-time gifts and wanted to give that to spread among our team! I was blown away; what a significant number!

I immediately got a hold of Taylor, my co-leader, shared the news, and we began to put together the numbers and figure out exactly how much each person on our team needed to be meet the 100% goal... It was not too little or too much, but JUST the amount we needed to cover everyone's one-time gifts for the year! Praise God!

This sweet gift was just the encouragement we all needed to finish. It came at just the right time when God knew we needed to see a BIG reminder of His faithfulness - and what a faith-builder that is for each of us! It was clearly nothing that we could have done on our own and was too exact to blame on "coincidence" -- just a reminder that God is in control and He has a plan to provide. We just need to keep TRUSTING. 

I feel like I have a renewed sense of confidence and faith in moving toward the finish line of this marathon in preparing for a year of ministry in Moscow, Russia! 

While my one-time goal is complete, I am still in need of a little less than $1000 per month. This is equivalent to just TEN people who would commit to give $100 per month or TWENTY people who would commit to $50 per month. God has already provided in ways I did not expect, so I'm believing that this goal will also be complete very soon!

Thank you for your partnership in ministry this year! I look forward to continue sharing this incredible experience with you!

P.S. - FOUR days until STINT briefing in Chicago! I'm so excited to see my team and prepare for this year. :)