Update on Mission Trip

Hi Friend,

All of the details are coming together - packing lists are being worked on, funds are coming in, hotels are being arranged.  Each day brings our team one step closer to this trip to work against sex-trafficking in Bulgaria and Greece.  There are so many different pieces that need to come together in order for this trip to happen, and little by little we're seeing them accomplished.  As one of the leaders on this trip, that's part of my role- to make sure things are arranged and organized and prepared for what's about to come.  

I wonder at my heart, though.  While it's great that our team is prepared for data plan coverage no matter our wireless carrier, is my heart being prepared?  Am I each day praying, and nurturing, and laying the ground work in my own heart for the places of darkness and despair and hope against all odds that I'm about to expose it to?  It's so easy for me to focus on the details, even to hide behind the work involved in coordinating this trip. 

And yet, at the same time, each day I'm reminded again and again that this issue is real - through our pre-trip reading assignment Girls Like Usor a newsletter from a friend in India who knows a 15 year old sold by her family to cover her uncle's debts, or even to my very own street where a pregnant young woman leans in and out of various cars and comes in out of apartment complexes with different men.  

As this trip draws closer, I would love your prayers for the details that still need to be arranged like our lodging in Greece, the remaining $400 in support I still need to come in, and for our team to be unified, but more than anything I would love for you to pray that my heart would be soft.  I fear that I will hide it or harden it in defense of what we may hear or in fear of what we may see.  Please pray that I would view those we minister to with the eyes of Christ.  And that my heart would be broken for the things that break the heart of God.  

I remain incredibly grateful to have you by my side in this endeavor.

Here are the options if you would like to give financially –

1.     Click this link  https://donations.mtw.org/donate/AddDesignation.aspx?No=EV5359 to donate online to EV5359 Bulgaria & Greece

2.     Send a check to the following address with EV5359 in the memo line

Mission to the World

1600 North Brown Rd

Lawrenceville, GA 30043