February Update - Heading to Greece in a few days!

For the past month, I have been home, spending time with friends and family, getting in all of my doctor appointments and prepping for Greece. 

Praise the Lord for the people God has put in my life during this time home! I have been so blessed to have so many people come alongside me in mentorship and prayer. I have been able to see so many of my amazing friends and mentors during this time and I am hopefully going to get to see most of them next week, to say goodbye, before I head out again. 

God has also blessed me with some amazing opportunities to share the work He is doing though me. This past week, I was able to share with a church from my hometown about my work and they were so gracious to partner with me in prayer and financially. I also had the opportunity to talk with another local church's missions team about sponsoring me, as well as my own home church helped me film a video to share with the congregation about my missions work. So a LOT has been brewing in the past week and I couldn't be more grateful. 

I have been spending a lot of time meditating in God's word, trying to prepare my heart for the heaviness of the work I will be doing in Greece. I don't think I will truly be able to comprehend the extent of how heavy it will be until I am there experiencing it, but I have allowed God into that part of my heart that is worried and I know He will be there in those moments to lead and comfort me. 

I have been struggling with loneliness a lot these past few weeks. I am away from home more than I am actually here, which I am so incredibly thankful to be doing work that I love so, so much, but it's hard to come back home and see how people and things have changed without me. I know God has given me everything I need and that involves community, I have been so blessed by the Lord in that way. 

How you can be praying for me-

• Prayers for peace and discernment as my trip to Greece is coming up, as well as preparing spiritually for the work there. This will be a very sobering trip working with such young and vulnerable people who have gone through so much. I pray I will be able to share the love of Christ just by being a light in the short time that I am there.

• Prayers financially, I am over halfway to my fundraising goal! Praise God! Prayers that individuals and families are led to partner with me in my work of supporting Ministries cross-culturally. I love that the Lord is using me in such an amazing way to expand His kingdom, so prayers for the funds to come in to help me be able to do so. 

• Prayers for Loneliness, but also Praise that God has always been there to provide for me. Prayers for me to continue to seek God out in those emotions and continue to remember that God is good during those times. 

Thank you all for all your continued support, encouragement and prayers. It is so beautiful to see the whole body of Christ working together to share the Gospel among the Nations. 

“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.”    - Revelation 7:9