Friday, March 30, 2007

Miracles???

So, my question today is why don't I trust God like I should? I have seen His faithfulness over and over and over and over again and yet my heart still is so stupid and forgetful! Last night we had an AMAZING team meeting and my heart was so refreshed to pray and hang out with my team. Also, I was reminded how much there is that has to happen before we can leave. And, my heart was reminded that God is going to have to move mountains to get us there! and to keep us there! :-) We have to raise a LOT of money in about a month! yikes!!! If I didn't serve the Creator God of the universe, I would be scared. But, I know that if God wants us to go, He is going to do a miracle! And that is exciting! It is an exciting place to be where we have to trust God and we have to rely on Him. We were reminded last night that we know nothing (still) of what we will be doing over there! We know that the campground has been reserved for June 18th-June 28th! And we are assuming we will have the same kids that whole time. We don't know if we will have interpreters. We don't know if the kids speak any Russian. We do know we don't speak much at all! But, that is a good spot to be in, because all we can do is let go and let God! We have to remain dependant on Him and He is going to keep us dependant on Him, whether we want to or not! God is good! He is going to get the most glory out of this trip as He can and He IS GOING TO EXALT HIMSELF!!! And I am so grateful that we get to be used to do just that!
So....just a note about the logistics of this trip. Slavic Gospel Association, whom we are partnering with, is sending us over there to pave the way! To pave the way for the next ten years and hopefully ministry teams each of those years. This is a pioneering adventure! The church that we are going over to minister with, has never done any camp of this sort. Well, neither have we, in the music aspect. We have done sports camps alot and English camps, but not music. So, as we are breaking ground, it is exciting to think that we are paving the way for many more people to go to Arkhangelsk and minister in the future.
22 hours of daylight! That is what we will be experiencing! And I guess that we will be in the Arctic Circle! I will probably see the White Sea, as Arkhangelsk is a port city on it! And, I will get to experience real jet lag! (I am trying to prepare myself now for that!) I am not sure what kind of food we will be eating, but my friend Matt and I decided we need to know how to clearly state that we are allergic to certain foods (fish for him, nuts for me) and make sure that Russians will understand us. If there is only one thing I will be able to say in Russian, then that will be it! Hopefully, I will be able to pick up some phrases before leaving to be able to use!
Please pray for us! We are so desperate for prayer! Here are some prayer requests that I would love prayer for:
1. Immediately, that funds would come in quickly and fully for our trip.
2. Team Unity: we have a great team, pray that we would love each other, and serve each other and protect untiy.
3. Pray that God would open communication once we get to Russia, for love and unity with believers, and love for and boldness with unbelievers.
4. That we would each be faithful now to be in the Word daily, walking submitted lives to Christ, and that we would be diligent to fight sin.
Thank you so much!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like it's going to be interesting. How's school going?

Katie said...

So good that we serve a God who is not limited by our cynicism or our doubts, he can do what he please - be it opening the eyes of the blind, opening prison doors so that his servants can walk out or providing needed finances and guidance for your trip to Russia.