It's Gonna Be A Long Road

Today was the second day that I made phone calls to potential supporters.  So far I have had probably about $300 pledged and I thank God for that.  I am starting to realize how much money I really have to raise.  It is a little overwhelming how much money and how little time that I have to make this all happen.  Our team has a meeting this weekend and hopefully after meeting with the other members of my team I will be encouraged and pushed to confidence in the Lord's faithfulness.  I plan on sending out a second wave of letters on Thursday and following those up with calls the end of next week.

On a lighter note, I have begun to see what a privilage it is for God to give me the opportunity to take his gospel, the true gospel that can save lives, to the ends of the earth.  As each day comes I become filled with more and more excitement and eagerness to hop on a plane and go.  I finish tonight with this request:  please pray for my team and our faith in the Lord's promises.  Raising support can be a stressful time, especially with deadlines and your prayers would definitely help to reduce our levels of anxiety.  Also pray for the hearts of the people in Malaysia that we will come into contact with.  God's word says that he goes before us and prepares our path (Malachi 3:1) and I believe that our belief in prayer and its power will affect the effectiveness we have in reaching   the hearts in KL.  Its time for me to go to bed now, I have class at 9 am tomorrow.  I think I will create a sign off phrase to end every post.

Slave to Righteousness,

Dono

An Excited Servant

Okay. So at the Campus Outreach Christmas Conference I was asked to go to Malaysia this summer for CO Raleigh's CCP. I definitely wanted to go, but I was unsure of how my parents would feel, especially after I told them how much it was. Our team recently had our first "meeting" to talk about raising support and different deadlines we had to meet. The support discussion had me feeling somewhat stressed because I've never had to raise anywhere near $5700. However in the midst of all my worries and doubts, I am trying my best to see past my fears and to put my faith in the fact that I believe God is calling me to Malaysia this summer and that he provides for all my needs (Phillipians 4:19). I am going to try and send out my first wave of support letters tomorrow and then make some calls about a week later.

So I don't have a lot of info right now, but I will try and update this thing with support updates and with prayer requests and probably with some little facts about Malaysia. Well thats all for now. Hopefully my next post will come with a support update!