When God moves, He moves!

I just want to say thank you to everyone who came out to my poker tournament! We had a great time, great food, and in the end $900 was raised! That is huge and it meant a lot to me that you guys were there. Congratulations to Charles for being our tournament champion, you played well for your first time ever playing poker. Makes everyone a little suspicious... just kidding! Seriously though, there are a couple of amazing stories that I want to tell you.

When you raise support, for each event you put on you are supposed to have a specific goal in mind, a number that you are shooting for. I was going real big with the poker tournament, I was praying for $1,500, which would have meant 50 people showing up. Obviously that didn't happen. Nine hundred dollars from about 30 people was still an amazing turnout, but in the end I knew I still needed more. I was praying that night and the next morning about how I was going to get the rest, and honestly I was worried. The next morning at church someone walked up to me with a Christmas card and told me that there was some support in there from her and her husband. In that card was $700 dollars! I couldn't believe it! Not only had I gotten the $1500 I had prayed for, I got an extra $100!

One more story; working at Starbucks I had met this guy who was just beginning to raise support to go to Kenya for 3 years. The amount of support he needs to raise is up front and monthly is close to 4 or 5 times the amount that I need. He's a great guy and every time he comes in we have awesome conversations about missions and ministry. Well, a couple of days ago he came to Starbucks and handed me a folded up piece of paper. When I got off work I opened it up and it had $200 dollars and a note explaining that he had been meaning to give this to me for sometime and he was trying to invest in what really mattered in the kingdom! Someone who has a staggering amount of money to raise compared to mine felt compelled to invest in me, I was humbled.

All that to say, God is truly moving. He is active in the lives of His people and He knows what we need. With that money and other money that has been pledged that brings my one time gift total up to $5,895 out of $8,000 and my monthly support pledges to $375 out 0f $1,000. There is still more needed, but God's people (that's you guys!) have been faithful thus far and I believe will see this thing through with me!