All That I Know

I know I love them and will miss them like crazy!!

The most common phrase I have used in the past year is: I don't know.

At first it was used and it did not bother me to much. Why Vegas? Why YWAM? Are you coming back to college? Why now and not later?

Then it started to freak me out a little. How are you paying for this? Where is the money coming from? How much luggage can you bring? Who is picking you up from the airport? What is living conditions? Who are these people? What do these people do? What will you be learning? What will you be doing? What is the security of your location like?

Then it became funny to me. How did so many people fit into the cars? Where did the money come from? What did you eat? How did you meet that person? How did you survive the Himalayan hike? How did just you get worms? What are you doing next?

Now it is just a common phrase to me. The more I say, "I don't know," the more I realize it can only be described in one word: God.

I am moving to Homer, Alaska in August after spending the summer working with YWAM Las Vegas. I do not know what I will be doing in Homer, for how long, or what living conditions are like. I do not know who is picking me up from the airport, what weather is like or how to out smart a bear. I do not know how much sunlight there will be in the winter, what I will be wearing or what community projects will look like. I do not know.

I know I will be missing my office... I mean Smokey Row

But this is what I do know. June 2-August 6, I will be serving God in Vegas. August 16 I will be
moving to Alaska for a minimum of a year commitment with YWAM Homer. I will be in a new place, a new culture, living with new strangers and serving a new community. I will be living financially by faith, missing the high school youth group at Federated and will be separated from my family for a year. I will miss another Thanksgiving, another Christmas, another New Year. This time I will miss all of my families' Birthdays, Easter and my brothers college graduation.

I will be training others to be missionaries, just like those who have trained me. I will be pouring into others the way I have been poured into. I have a creator who breathed life into me and a history of people who have fueled my fire for God. I live to serve just as my Servant Savior lived.

I know I am going to Homer, Alaska in obedience to Him who has called and laid the path before me, I know I will not pass on the chance to live in His will. All those other details, I'm sure He knows them all. Or at least I am hoping, because I sure do not know!!

I am asking for two things: prayer and financial support. American missionary Samuel Zwemer said, "The history of missions is the history of answered prayer." Please be in prayer as I prepare to go awake our brothers and sisters and bring them back to the table. I cannot do this without your prayer support. Also financial support, as my work with Homer does not come with a salary. Please prayerfully consider financially supporting me to obey God's call on my life in going.

He has offered me life. I accepted and lived it to the fullest.