From
mid-September until now, many of you have given resources to take care of ALL
of the monies needed to support the travel and living expenses for Taylor Anne
and myself. I called it a “giant”
because from my vantage point, raising nearly $6000 in two months was an
impossible task. Our great God handles “giants”
in extraordinary ways. I was reminded of this in “Jesus Calling” on November 19th
“Leave outcomes up to Me. Follow Me wherever I lead without worrying
about how it will all turn out. Think of
your life as an adventure with Me as Your Guide and Companion.” Thank you to all who responded to God’s
leading in your life to support this effort.
Our God continues to slay giants.
We just need to call upon Him!
Would you
commit to praying for us during these last 11 days we remain at home?
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Tay
has exams next week (Dec 7-10) at Appalachian State. Pray she finishes this
semester well. We had a minor ER visit
this past weekend trying to figure out a sharp pain in her abdomen. After an ultrasound to rule out gall bladder
issues, she got the all-clear to go on the trip (pain is unresolved but manageable
and will need further review when we return).
By the way, some of you who are friends with Tay have seen her gofundme
account. She is trying separately to raise her own money for expenses outside
of travel and living to cover some supplies that she wants to take and some of
her expenses such as shots needed. https://www.gofundme.com/TaylorAnne
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| Kyle, John, Tay and Patty - Ugandan Team |
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John
Walter has a business he owns and operates. Pray for his wife Patti (Tay’s
wonderful grandmother) as she oversees the business and that all will go well
without John (and Kyle) in the country.
·
Pray
for our families Jimmy and Tyler. It’s not easy to let your loved ones travel
24 hours away especially at the holidays and especially with the world
situation in a somewhat difficult place.
Tay and I know we are to go and do so without any fear or
reservation.
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Pray
mostly that God will prepare every step of the way for us. That we would be an encouragement to all we
meet and be able in some way to impact their lives. Our work will mostly be spent with children. We have lots of crafts planned with the
village children and the orphans at Rafiki.
We will also be distributing “readers” to the elderly in the village and
we have an abundance of flip-flops to distribute. You can understand that
the people have no resource for “readers” and many children and adults are
barefooted. Kyle and Ryan have raised
money to bring Bibles and we will all be blessed during the distribution and
conversations around these gifts to the village people.
Thank you
for your encouragement in so many different ways. That’s the beauty of friendships. Each of us has different gifts to extend to
one another. I hope you will “journey”
with me through this great adventure. I’ll
be blogging each day of the sights, sounds, people and places that we encounter
and hopefully posting along the way as resource permits. This adventure is about to get started!! We
are so EXCITED to see what lies ahead of us!!!! “Let
them know that it is
your hand, that you, Lord, have done it.”
Psalm 109:27
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