God’s Kingdom and me

So it’s been a LONG
while since I have written an update. Life has been crazy the last 9 months.
The Lord has done some great things in my life, but honestly, God has brought
me through a hard season- A season of growing and learning more about the heart
of God, a season where I had to tell myself, “at the end of it all, God is
still a good God.â€�  This season included
some of the hardest months of my life. It was so different for me, I had to
struggle through disappointment. I was thinking about disappointment the other
day, looking back at my life, and realized that I have never really had to
struggle through that. Before these last 9 months I don’t think I had ever been
truly disappointed. Sure there were little let downs but, for the most part,
they were selfish things. 

When I sent out my
last update I told everyone that I was signing away 2 years of my life. Two
years of leading college aged mission trips around the world. Things have
changed a little J I
still work with the college age department, Real Life, but I work in the
Admissions Department. Yes, I sit behind a desk. Yes, I talk on the phone all
day, and YES I love it! I get to talk to college age students all day long. I
walk with them through their fears, doubts and joys of preparing for their
trip. These students go on 2 month and semester long trips around the world!

We have one trip that
was just in Kenya and God totally rocked this team. They were out in the bush
(camping of sorts) and trying to minister to all the people they could. One man
in the area they were in asked them how their God could love so much? You see
the valley he lived in had been in a drought for years. He explained how he
just could not understand a “loving God� and how he had been all over the place
looking for a god to make it rain and had come up empty handed. So, the team
prayed and prayed and prayed, and it rained. It rained for 3 days straight. It
rained so much that the tents this team called home started to float away and
they had to move into one small mud hut. 
 Well, it finally stops
raining and eventually this team runs into that same man who just could not
understand a God who loves. This man looked at them with fear, and a listening
ear. He was scared of them a little but he wanted to know who their God was,
because if He made it rain then he wanted to know their God!

So this is my life. I
do sit behind a desk and I don’t travel all the time on the field. I love what
I do and the stories from the field make sitting at my desk answering
questions, counseling, and praying worth it all. I am still in a support raised
position but need significantly less than before. 800 is what I need to raise a
month. I only need to raise 50% of my salary, which is nice!

I am asking for you
to partner with me in this venture! I am asking for a few monthly supporters at
$100 a month, then a few more for $50 a month.

I am still in need of about $300 a month. Please pray and consider investing in Gods Kingdom through me!

Once that is reached I will be
funded, exciting! I know that’s a lot for many people, so anything you feel led
to give is fantastic! So some of you have been supporters in the past and I
would really love if you would partner with me again for the next 12 months!
All of you, as supporters, have been so amazing!

I really love y’all!

Katie J