Praise God

I just got a quick HALLELUJAH because I just got my support update today and God has raised me another 800 dollars in the last 4 days.
Can I get an amen?

That is just incredible.  God amazes me so often.  I do not know why I ever doubt anything or start to worry because he will take care of me.

I now have just under a third of my support raised!

once again

HALLELUJAH

K2

Prepping for Uganda

Well, here I am 1 Month and 12 days before leaving for Colorado on January 15^th.  Then I officially have my flight booked for Uganda leaving on January 24^th 2011.  I come back on June 17^th.

I cannot believe how fast time has flown to where I am in my life right now.  Let’s see so:

·         I graduate Dec. 11^th

·         Go to Uganda

·         Getting Married

Then … Find a real job and start a career, family and all the fun of that begins.  A lot is happening in my life right now this is crazy.

So let’s see to prepare, I have been raising support for my trip which has been such an awesome opportunity.  I praise God for any of you that I have had a chance to hear about what I am doing and choosing to follow me and pray for me.  It means the world and is so important to have that team behind me so THANK YOU!  For those of you who felt led to contribute financially that is just amazing and thank you so much for being a part of my financial support team.  I thank God for you and allowing Him to use you that I get the opportunity to be used to go serve. 

I am so lucky that God chose me to go serve His people in Uganda.  Continue to pray for my team and I to mesh together over there to serve the best way that we can and all mesh together to represent Christ well in everything we do.  I really just want to live out Titus 2:14 being zealous for good works, that God has already laid out for me (Colossians somewhere I believe).

Although I couldn’t be more excited to go, there are definitely times of nervousness thinking about the downsides of being over there, but hopefully I can continue to really just focus on the good and positive things of this trip.

Well, recently all I have been doing in my quiet times is digging into Acts 20:18-38.  It is an awesome speech by Paul that just has so many powerful things in it that after I read it; I knew I must spend some hours here.

                “Serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews” Acts 20:19

What does serving in all humility look like? And with tears.  At first this sounds weird to serve with tears in my eyes.  What does that look like and why would I serve with tears in my eyes?  Jesus talks about serving being the ultimate joy so why now are there tears?

I think what Paul is getting at here is that to serve with real humility means a few different things.  One, it is hard.  Putting others before ourselves always is not easy by any means.  At times doing this may bring us to tears.  Also, I feel this just shows how much Paul really cares about these people he is talking to and cares about the ministry he is doing.  It brings him to tears because he takes Jesus’s command of loving others as ourselves seriously.  WOW, I want a heart like this to love others so much that it does hurt at times.  I wonder what that feels like. 

Back to serving with humility, I feel like is really just all about lifting others up.  Whatever that may look like in any situation.  At times it may be as simple as asking “how can I lift you up, how can I support you, how can I pray for you?” all these questions I feel like can be helpful in making one another feel lifted up more so.  Rather than my tendency is to want to help, but not come at it like this with the heart of love to lift them up, but acting as if I am above them and trying to help them by saying they come join me up here.  This is not what the Son of Man would do.  Jesus got down low and served.  This is who I choose to follow as well as hopefully you reading this do too. 

So let’s get down low and follow our example in our Homeless Rabbi (Jesus, yes He was homeless, Luke 9:58)

Please contact me with questions, comments, anything, ways I can help/ serve/ anything ways I can pray for you!

In His Name!

K2