Please Pray...

There are a couple things that are on my mind and have really been on my heart these past few weeks and they are 1) OUTREACH and 2) My teams need for OUTREACH FUNDS$$$.

1) I leave this Saterday, April 5, for my Costa Rica Outreach! So soon! This is very exciting, but there is still so much that needs to happen before then that need to be covered in prayer. You can pray that we can perfect (or even finish learning) our dramas this week before we go. What this will take is Gos meraculously providing more time in the day. Also, PLEASE pray for the first week (April 6-10th) which is the NIKO Camp, which I hear really rips you apart, so I need so much prayer that God will use that time to do some awesome things in me and in my team (and that we all come out in one piece!). After that the actually outreach phase begins in Talemaca, which is the same place where the NIKO camp is. We will be there for at least 2 weeks then we are not sure yet about where we will be for that last week of April (please pray for God's guidance and provision in that). Mostly, pray that God would be bringing my team together AS A FAMILY. That we would learn to really love eachother and be closrer than brothers because this is what will made or break our outreach... "You will be known by your love for eachother". Pray that I CAN DIE TO MYSELF.

2) For many people on both the Guatemala and the Venzuela team, Outreach is just a hope untill we get enough money for them to be able to go. I praise God for his provition and how far he has already brought us! At the start of last week we still needed $6, 000 total in order for everyone to be able to go, but after those of us who had some extra money responded to God's call to give to our teammates our needs were cut in half and we only needed $3,000! Everyone spent all of last week prefaring a fundraiser that was held last Saturday. We all made different kinds of foods and help a "food fair" and the community center in our nieghborhood. To our disappointment, we did not get a very good turnout and we ended up with alot of extra food and not much prophit at all. Today (Sunday) we are all going out on the street to sell what we have left and are praying that there is still some funds that can come in through this. Please pray that as we do what is possible to get our outreach money, that God will do the impossible in this seemingly impossible timing (we are supposed to leave in less that a week!). Pray that God can change our spirits of discouragement to spirits of joy! My faith is deffinately being strengthened throught this, but I feel that many of my classmates are just tired and frusterated. Please cover us in your prayer. If you feel that God is calling you to give, please just let me know (mariposagrace@hotmail.com) and we work it out. It would be greatly appreciated :).
Thank you so much for all your prayer and support!
Learning to Trust God in All things,
Anna