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Hi Everyone,
So, I haven’t been writing lately because my family is in the middle of getting ready for a missions trip to Juarez, Mexico which leaves on Sunday. This will be my 4th trip and I expected a fairly normal time and I was excited because many of my good friends are coming. Normal nothing. This has probably been one of the more stressful events of my life. ☺ Now, don’t take me wrong, I wouldn’t trade it for anything in this world, but Satan has really been attacking us and making things difficult for us.
To start out, we usually have around 45 people on the trip, which is a huge number. For this trip, we had about 35, then 28, then 24, then, 19, then we found ourselves at about 14 people. Amazingly, the group that sets up these trips, IFM, still wanted us to go despite the fact that we were 12 people below the required number. The reason so many people couldn’t go was because one of their relatives was either very sick or dying. Needless to say, this was slightly depressing. The only thing that kept me going was the story of Gideon and how God took away almost all of his army. At first glance, this may seem like a very strange (not to mention kinda dumb) plan. But, in the end, God’s way was best and Gideon and his very small army conquered. This made me realize that God can use anyone in anyway for His glory. Eventually though, our team decided to postpone the trip until November 16 (the original date was October 12). This proved to be a good plan.
So, we carried on and found ourselves a week away from the trip and figured out that we still had a lot of planning to do. I, being the daughter of the trip planner, ended up with a lot to do. I later learned that delegating is a wonderful gift. ☺ We’ve had a lot of unexpected things come up and extra planning to do. But, despite the circumstances, we have survived and are now currently packing which is quite a monstrous task. We ended up getting more people to come on the trip. This was a total answer to prayer as one of them signed up about 30 minutes before the deadline! At this point we have 24 people who are part of the team.
I am really excited for this trip because I know that God is going to do great things through it. Satan obviously doesn’t want us to go or he wouldn’t be attacking us so much. It has been really amazing to watch his provision and love for us throughout this time. I am looking forward to the wonderful things he going to do. Needless to say, this has been far from a normal trip, but who needs normal? I think that God's standard of "normal" is way beyond and way above what we can imagine and so amazing it would make us fall to our knees if we fully understood it.
So, tomorrow we leave the church parking lot at 7:00 am (hopefully). If you think of us, please pray that God will keep us Christ-centered throughout this trip and that everything we do will be to His glory. I will hopefully be keeping you posted throughout the week.
-Sadie
So, I haven’t been writing lately because my family is in the middle of getting ready for a missions trip to Juarez, Mexico which leaves on Sunday. This will be my 4th trip and I expected a fairly normal time and I was excited because many of my good friends are coming. Normal nothing. This has probably been one of the more stressful events of my life. ☺ Now, don’t take me wrong, I wouldn’t trade it for anything in this world, but Satan has really been attacking us and making things difficult for us.
To start out, we usually have around 45 people on the trip, which is a huge number. For this trip, we had about 35, then 28, then 24, then, 19, then we found ourselves at about 14 people. Amazingly, the group that sets up these trips, IFM, still wanted us to go despite the fact that we were 12 people below the required number. The reason so many people couldn’t go was because one of their relatives was either very sick or dying. Needless to say, this was slightly depressing. The only thing that kept me going was the story of Gideon and how God took away almost all of his army. At first glance, this may seem like a very strange (not to mention kinda dumb) plan. But, in the end, God’s way was best and Gideon and his very small army conquered. This made me realize that God can use anyone in anyway for His glory. Eventually though, our team decided to postpone the trip until November 16 (the original date was October 12). This proved to be a good plan.
So, we carried on and found ourselves a week away from the trip and figured out that we still had a lot of planning to do. I, being the daughter of the trip planner, ended up with a lot to do. I later learned that delegating is a wonderful gift. ☺ We’ve had a lot of unexpected things come up and extra planning to do. But, despite the circumstances, we have survived and are now currently packing which is quite a monstrous task. We ended up getting more people to come on the trip. This was a total answer to prayer as one of them signed up about 30 minutes before the deadline! At this point we have 24 people who are part of the team.
I am really excited for this trip because I know that God is going to do great things through it. Satan obviously doesn’t want us to go or he wouldn’t be attacking us so much. It has been really amazing to watch his provision and love for us throughout this time. I am looking forward to the wonderful things he going to do. Needless to say, this has been far from a normal trip, but who needs normal? I think that God's standard of "normal" is way beyond and way above what we can imagine and so amazing it would make us fall to our knees if we fully understood it.
So, tomorrow we leave the church parking lot at 7:00 am (hopefully). If you think of us, please pray that God will keep us Christ-centered throughout this trip and that everything we do will be to His glory. I will hopefully be keeping you posted throughout the week.
-Sadie
