God is in the “big” things too…

As you may have seen, last weekend my monthly support level reached 54% which was a huge answer to prayer!

This past week, 2 more supporters decided to partner with me, bringing my current monthly support level to 67%!

Thank you for the part that each one of you has played in the ministry, whether through praying (for the ministry & for my support) or through giving sacrificially - or both. You mean so much to me, and I'm honored to partner with you.

Please continue to pray that God will bring in the final 1/3 of the support ($545/month) in His way and in His time.  I’m anxious to return to the DR and resume ministry, but I also know that God is in control of all things (including timing). He has been so good in using this time to grow me and to allow me to minister to many people here in the States (as well as giving me the unexpected blessing of time with my family).  So this is my prayer...that I won't try to jump ahead of Him or lag behind Him but will walk right with Him in this process and will be able to return in His time.

God is in the “little” things…

(This post is a little delayed, but it’s never too late to tell what God has done, right?  Right.)

So, I took my car in to get checked at the end of April because it had been doing weird things like shaking a lot when I was braking.  I was afraid something might have been loose.  I expected to just take the car in and wait a couple hour and, hopefully, they could tell me what was wrong with it.  Well, it turns out the driver’s side airbag was recalled so I was given a rental vehicle for about a week while they waited for the airbag to come in.  I didn’t complain.  I’d been putting a lot of miles on my vehicle traveling on the weekends, so who would mind putting miles on someone else’s vehicle?

Long story short, I ended up having the rental vehicle for almost 3 weeks.  When I finally went back to get my car, I got the bad news: there was a whole list of things wrong (brake pads, struts, and a whole lot of stuff I don’t remember).  Basically the car has so many miles that it’s not worth putting the money into.

At first I was depressed.  I still need the car for a lot more road trips to churches and volleyball camps.

I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to do about the car, but I realized that God had given me an incredible blessing: the weekends that I had my rental car where the weekends of my two furthest trips (a 2 ½ hour trip to Elyria, OH and a 3 hour trip to Whiteland, IN).  I guess I had been kinda hoping for a miraculous report on my car when I got it back.  God didn’t do that.  But He did provide for my needs.  I had a reliable car for those two trips and I didn’t have to put the miles and stress on my own vehicle. 

God doesn’t always provide how we expect, but He does always provide just what He knows we need.

Goal!

I asked you to pray that I would reach 50% by May 17…

Well, today is May 17 and my monthly support level is now at 54%!  

Thanks for praying!  Stay posted to see how God continues to provide… J

God is good all the time,                                           

all the time God is good.