The anticipation for this day has built up all summer long, and as my mom keeps saying to me these past few days, "I think you guys are just ready to get to Moscow!"
The visas have been approved, the funds raised, and plane tickets purchased... and we take off on Friday morning! I leave Portland, OR at 8:30am, meet up with the rest of my team + the team from Texas/Oklahoma in Chicago, fly to Frankfurt for a layover, and then land in Moscow at 5:30pm Saturday. With the time difference, that's just about 24 hours of travel.
To say that I'm excited would be a vast understatement. :)
People keep asking if I'm nervous or scared. Mostly, I think I just feel confident, which can easily contain excitement and a little nervousness simultaneously. I'm confident that God brought my team together - He chose each person to play a specific role on this team, and on the campus in Moscow, for this specific time. I'm confident that this is exactly where God wants ME to be this year. I'm confident in His provision - financial, emotional, spiritual, physical, etc. He is Jehovah Jireh, the God who provides - not just for me, but for you, too. I'm confident that God has a plan already set out for us this year and all we need to do is keep our eyes fixed on HIM. I'm confident that we do not go ALONE - not only does He provide and plan, but He is always with us. I'm so thankful for His reassuring presence that propels us to push on in knowing God and making Him known to all the world.
So while I pine over packing woes of what is a necessity (obviously, a plethora of coffee and cute scarves) and what must stay here in storage, I'm confident that He has a bigger plan than all of that. Even if I have to wear the same clothes on a five day rotation and eat rice beans all year, it doesn't even matter. God's greater plan is so very worth it.
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