Blog Change

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Greetings from London

Hello everyone!
I have a very limited time so I'm just here to say that I am alive and very well. This has been the most amazing summer of my life and it itn't even over yet. I can't wait to tell all the stories that I have gathered. God has done amazing things through our ministry in Ireland.

We are debriefing in London right now. Just got her yesterday and it has been a good time of thinking over the last 5 weeks.

See you very soon!

See you soon then!

This is going to be a short post. I’m getting ready to go to bed so that I will have lots of energy for tomorrow. I will be leaving for the air port at 8 and then I have to be at my gate at 9:15. Please continue to pray that my flight will stay open and that there are no complications. Please pray for the rest of my team as well as they come in tomorrow and on Saturday morning. Once we are all in Chicago on Saturday we will leave for training camp together.

Thank you all for your support. I have had so many wonderful conversations with many of you over this past week and I’m reminded of how blessed I am. God has blessed me with an amazing Church/extended/biological family and I couldn’t be more grateful!

I plan to send letters home to be put on here so that you can all stay up-to-date on what you can be praying for. For now please just pray for health, strength, courage and, above all, that God’s will will be done in and through me this summer.

I’m off on my adventure!
See you soon then!

48 hours!

In 48 hours (YES I SAID FORTYEIGHT!) I will be in PDX checking in. This has been such a good week! I have gotten the chance to spend some really good time with some friends before I take off and I have gotten a lot of stuff done. But above all that, I am blown away by God amazingness (I don’t care if it isn’t a real word), provision, and love right now! Yesterday I got a $25 cash donation and I decided that since it wouldn’t get processed and make it into the updated support letter that I get every Wednesday, I would just wait until today to put it into my fund. I get up a little bit ago and hurriedly turn on my computer and get onto my email. For some reason my whole email froze and I had to sit there waiting for it to load for almost 3 minutes. It was torture! But then it finally loaded and I opened the email. I have $3,545 in my account. So I added the $25 that I got yesterday and I have…..*drum role please*…….$3,570! That is EXACTLY what I need to go! How amazing is that? My prayer has been that God would bring in all my money before I leave and He did, to the dollar. I could not have imagined a better way to start my day then go wake up and get the news I have been waiting for. Praise God!

In other news, yesterday I went shopping with my mom and our good fiend on a mission to find a rain coat and some wind pants (for performances in Ireland). I found them both for amazing deals. My coat was originally $100 and I got it for $36 and the pants were only $20. On top of those amazing finds I also got a new sleeping bag. I wasn’t going to ask for it, but my wonderful mother decided that I “needed it” so I did not object *smiles*. It was originally $120 and I got it for $60. It is really nice and fits into a smaller stuff sack then any of the other bag that we have so that will be great for packing.
The chances of me making that 10am flight on Friday are still looking good. Thanks for your prayers about that.
Yesterday was a full day of shopping and packing. This is what my bed looked like at 11 o’clock last night



Almost everything is in it’s zip-lock bag and is not in one of my two cardboard boxes. I can’t remember if I have mentioned that yes…anyway, the way the Royal Servants does things is very practical. Everyone packs all there things for the summer into plastic bags and then puts them into boxes which we bring to Illinois. Once we get there they will give every person the same “blue pack” and that is where all our stuff has to fit. Now everything from my sleeping mat to my dishes to my bag of socks is in boxes. I only have a few last minute things to get together before Friday.

I’m going to spend these last two days with my family. We are going to celebrate Father’s Day together tomorrow night since I will not be here for the actual occasion and then I’m off in the morning.

I hope to make one more short post before I leave, but if I don’t thank you all for your prayers and support through this journey. I will do my best to keep you updated on everything that of experience in these next six weeks. I hope to write some letters home and then have someone post them to my blog for all to read.
If anyone would like to write me while I’m at Training camp you can send them to this address:
Reign Ministries
c/o Living Springs Camp
My Name Here
14253 E Epworth Spring Rd
Lewistown IL 61542-8427

I love getting mail while I’m away and it will help any home-sickness stay way. The only other thing I have to tell you is that I will be having my mentor or someone in my family updating my blog while I’m at training camp. So I will be having someone else sending out the notifications and updates. I will try and give them prayer requests to put up as well.

Thank you all so much for being a part of my life!
See you soon!

5 Day Count Down

5 days! I can’t explain how excited I am right now. I have butterflies of excitement right now because I’m thinking about leaving. Everything has really come together this week. I have almost all my shopping done for the trip. The only things I still need to buy are a rain coat and some other small random things.

On the list of things to get done this week are getting a couple shots, shop for a coat and pack my boxes. I really don’t have too much to do at the moment, but I know that my days are going to fly by quickly.

On the list of exciting news: as of yesterday I only have $125 left to get. God has been so good in providing for my needs as the trip approaches. Thanks again to every one of you who has been praying for me and for my finances. I always knew that God would provide and it is has been so encouraging to know that many of you are keeping me and the trip in your prayers.

Some things that I need prayer for this week:

- I need to make sure that I have everything memorized for the mission. I have some verses and a track to get into my head. Most of it is done, but there are still some things that I am forgetting.

- Please be praying that my flight to Chicago stays open. There are still 20 seats open for the flight from PDX to O’Hare. I would be so grateful if they stayed open and I was able to not have to worry about any layovers.

- I have a list of things that I need to get done. Most of them are not very hard things, but there are a lot of them and I have a limited time to get them done in. Please pray that I would manage my time well and get all of it done without getting stressed. I really want to enjoy this last week with my family and friends.

I will make on last post before I leave. I hope to make a daily prayer calendar and post it here before I leave.

Until then!

Awaiting the Day (17 Days!)

I am so grateful at this moment! God is really showing me that he is providing for this trip. As of a few moments ago I only need $710! I’m so close. Thank you to everyone who has already donated. I know I have said it before, but your gifts are so encouraging to me as I prepare.

In other news I thought I would tell everyone about my domestic flight plans. Some wonderful friends have gifted me with some stand-by passes which save me TONS of money. Flying stand-by means that I have to wait at the gate of the flight that I want to get on and then if there are seats left over after all the other paying customers I get a seat for an extremely low cost. There are two options for flying out on June 18^th. The first option is the one that I really pray that I get onto. It is a straight shot from Portland to Chicago and it leaves at 10:05am. That would be the perfect flight for me because it would actually put me in Chicago a little early to find my team and there are no layovers (which I would really appreciate). However, if I do not make it on that flight there is one leaving to go to Seattle at 10:30 so I would run down to that terminal and catch a small plane to get up there and then catch another flight going out to Chicago. This option would put me in Chicago around 7pm which is totally fine as well.

Thank you for all your prayers and support! As I’m writing this I’m just getting excited to watch God work. I know that he will bring in my finances and it will be amazing to watch. I also know that he is going to change me through everything I have to go through and I am so excited to see that happen. I’m ready to be pushed, stretched, and moved to love and follow him more. Thank you for following along with me in my journey!