picture: I share about my ministry and needs with a friend.
I am currently at 41% of my regular support.
24 calls made, 4 letters written, 1 presentation given, everything recorded. For everyone wondering what a missionary candidate raising support does in a typical day, the answer is we talk. A lot. Since I started raising support in May, I’ve spoken with about 1,800 people. (If I had a nickel for every time I said “Burkina Faso”…) Back when that number was 2 digits, I didn’t realize how long raising full support takes. But God has His own purposes fulfilled in periods of waiting, when all we can do is press on toward the eventual achievement of our goals.
24 calls made, 4 letters written, 1 presentation given, everything recorded. For everyone wondering what a missionary candidate raising support does in a typical day, the answer is we talk. A lot. Since I started raising support in May, I’ve spoken with about 1,800 people. (If I had a nickel for every time I said “Burkina Faso”…) Back when that number was 2 digits, I didn’t realize how long raising full support takes. But God has His own purposes fulfilled in periods of waiting, when all we can do is press on toward the eventual achievement of our goals.
I’d like to do something a little different and share a poem I wrote about my own eventually, when I’ll finally be on my way to Burkina Faso. Don’t be shocked: you were aware of this danger when you signed up for a newsletter from someone who recently earned her degree in writing.
Eventually
Eventually you will rise,
ears popping, on wings of dawn, and as you descend
to settle on the far side of the sea, you will fix your gaze—
past the glinting metal wings that have born you
and your last caress of air conditioning, your last
access to properly flushing eau de toilettes, and
speaking of which, your last exposure to English,
as well as God’s last (passed) chance to smash
the prospering plans He has for you—you will
peer into the place where you will pour yourself
out like a drink offering over the scattered seeds,
and you will pray like you never have before
for yourself, for the unseen child below who
unbends from her family’s field to wave at the craft
carrying the courier of her salvation and for
the barefoot one who is right that moment slipping
the soccer ball past the goalie like your words
will one day slip through his fingers…until eventually
they lodge in the toes of his adult frame, planting
hundredfold crops in the prints left wherever he walks,
crops that you won’t taste until you stand forever by that
most distant sea,
eventually.
Prayer Requests
Praise God That:
I have been able to stay with my sister and two friends in Indiana. It has been wonderful to watch and learn from their ministry to people in the inner city.
I am surrounded by churches. There are close to 100 churches in Marion and many more in the area that I have contacted about being a part of my ministry.
Please Pray That:
God will provide full support in His perfect timing and I will have patience and trust in that timing.
God will give me wisdom about where I should travel and visit as I run out of contacts in more familiar places.
