2 Days ...

I just wanted to drop a quick reminder to be praying for my projectmates as they continue to raise support. Although I have been incredibly blessed by a church family and network of friends who have been able and willing to enable me to reach full support, many are still very far behind and they have to have it all raised when they report on June 10th. Please pray that they be persistent in seeking it, and that God brings to them people with a heart for missions and/or art. Pray that God will give them courage to ask people and to make phone calls to follow up with letters and that he will give them wisdom to know what to do.

Raising support can be both the scariest and most rewarding part of the summer project experience. I have found that each time, although it can be scary and so hard to ask for money (which sometimes feels like the most burdensome thing to ask), it is so awesome to be able to experience the body of Christ coming together and functioning as many parts of one thing. So please remember them in your prayers.

Below is a message I recieved from Carlee this morning about her need ...

Hi friends, I hope you are all well.

So, I have about a week and a day until I am supposed to fly out to NYC for Summer Project. My support goal is $3600, and right now I have $2000. Praise God for getting me this far! Relatives I have never met and who don't send money to people (according to my mom) have sent me money. My grandmother alone raised $700 by passing around my letter where she works. My third grade teacher, who I haven't seen since then, is sending me support. It's been pretty amazing and I am so excited and encouraged to see all of this happening.

If you're awesome at math like me, you can see I have $1600 left to raise. I've sent letters to everyone I can possibly think of so I don't know where the rest of it is going to come from. I've heard dramatic stories, some of them yours, about God coming through at the last minute ("at the 11:59th hour," said my support coach), and I know that if God wants me to go to New York, He will get me there.

I just need you all to pray for me- most of you are already but this is so we can be on the same page I guess-
-that my faith is strengthened by all that God is doing (instead of me focusing too much on what hasn't happened yet)
-that my parents' eyes are opened by this and their faith is strengthened, and they turn to God more and more
-that my sister's heart is opened to God and she sees that God is orchestrating this
-that I can 'let' God handle the big stuff, the little stuff, and everything in between
-for the people I will meet in the city
-that I will focus more on what's going on in my heart and the hearts of the people I'm praying for in preparing for this trip than what's going into my suitcase