Thursday, October 30, 2008

Garage Sale!

Scott and Rachel offered to host a garage sale at their house and donate the proceeds to me for my plane ticket. I was so blown away by the results. God totally blessed it. Tons if people came by to drop stuff off before, and then we sold almost all of it! We had a lot of fun and I was amazing at how many dedicated garage-salers came. Some came so early that they needed flashlights to look at stuff.

Special thank you to my family, Nicole, and Courtney for helping out. You guys were great.

Here are some pictures of the day:




Monday, October 27, 2008

Here are two pictures I found of the campus that I will be living at. Enjoy!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

October!

Well everyone, its official. I got accepted as an Associate Member of New Tribes Missions!! Praise the Lord. You should check out their site. My info should be on there as well.

I bought my plane ticket for training that I am going to in Florida in November for a week. This has been quite the whirlwind process. It has been really good though. God is constantly expanding my faith and giving me a peace that I didn’t know was possible. The doors just continue to be opening, and I am very excited to see where the Lord takes me with all of this. If you are interested in what I will be doing specifically here it is:

I will be providing food service for Interface students, staff, and conference attendees throughout the year. The purpose of Interface is to assist the ministry of the local church in mobilizing people for the task of tribal church planting among the world’s unreached people groups. Interface is a college level missions course held in Papua New Guinea that educates students by exposing them directly to what is involved in church planting among tribal people. The campus is also used to host short-term mission trips, field conferences, and other events.

I would definitely appreciate your prayers as I continue in this process. Please pray for:
Guidance and energy as I meet paperwork deadlines while balancing full time work
Wisdom on figuring out the apartment situation that I am leaving
The Lord’s peace as I face the thought of leaving my loved-ones
Continual assurance from the Holy Spirit as I move forward in this process

I will try and post some pictures soon that show my family’s trip to PNG in 2000 to give you a better idea of where I will be going. I would love to hear from you all to be able to pray for you as well.

- Laura