9 Hours Until Departure!

As I woke up from my cool mid-September nap yesterday, I found that the past couple weeks have been a bit exhausting. Coming closer and closer to my date of deployment to Mexico City, my days have been filled with many goodbyes and followed by sleepless nights where my mind keeps turning and my body just wants to go to bed.

 In those hours spent where I can’t sleep {due to the exciting chapter ahead}, I reflect upon the past summer and what an experience it was faithfully following God. My mind puts me on this map of all the highs and lows that I walked through to pursue Him and this calling for me {a 6’3” white man} to Mexico City. Although we are blessed in every moment of our lives because of Christ’s love, I’ve come to a position of awe to witness how good, faithful, and all-powerful He is and how He has blessed this ministry so.

 On June 15th, I needed to put a game face on and I feared everything ahead of me in the well known season of support raising. I remember from that week that I struggled to see that this experience ahead was truly mine to pursue. All sorts of different of thoughts went screaming by in my mind:

 –Is this really for me, how do I raise $20,000? {I never seen so much money in my life.}
 -How will I find the right partners to come along side of me in ministry?

 Now today on September 16th {9 hours before departure} I sit here with all of those fears squashed because our Father in Heaven has His hands on this ministry and I am going to go live in one of the biggest cities in the world in two days whether I like it or not. {hmph} I’ve learned that living for the righteousness of His Kingdom and glory {Matthew 6:33}, all things will be given to us according to His will. God wants me there. God wants me to share life with the Mexicans of this grand city. And lastly, God has provided abundantly:

 -Today this ministry that the Lord has provided is fully supported for the entire year! He has blessed me with an adventure of me panicking, writing letters, making calls, composing badgering text messages {you got to do what the Lord calls you to do haha}, and bringing together friends, family, neighbors and complete strangers to form this ministry to serve the Lord together. Through this adventure, I have found that the ones closest to me have come together to build this ministry up and the Lord is using this fellowship to reach the hearts of the broken in Central America!

 All my bags are packed {scary to think} and I am ready for this new season in life. The amount of growth ahead of me is overwhelming, however I am excited to see how the Lord is going to use our team this coming year! A sincere thank you to all of the partners of this ministry that are praying for my team and myself as we start lives of missionaries in Mexico City. Please be praying that we can transition smoothly into this new culture, new mindset, and new use of language. -Mexico, HERE WE COME.

 GOD IS GOOD AND HE IS FAITHFUL! -A BIG HALLELUJAH FOR THE LIVES TO BE SAVED IN MEXICO CITY!!