Support Update!

Hello friends!
It has been a very stretching few weeks. I am starting to really see the mesh between being obedient to ask potential supporters to become actual supporters and trusting God in His providence to soften hearts towards this ministry. It is a strange balance but the best balance no less. It is so much like everything else in our lives, trusting a sovereign God while responding in faith and obedience. Our ability and motivation is rooted in our identity through Christ and it is His love that compels us. I won't lie, I have been so tempted to become complacent, stubborn, prideful and anxious. These are all very present in my day-to-day. However, I have also been shown goodness and mercy through the hands and feet of Christ. I pray when all of this initial support raising process concludes I will look more like Christ and realize the depth of my dependence on Him.

Here are ways you can pray for me:
1. Opportunities to share about my future with RUF at A&M
2. That the Lord would give me the words when I have the opportunity to share and that I would not be tempted to rely on my own ability
3. That my heart would remain in a position of humility and repentance during this process and throughout the internship
4. That people would support this ministry

Breakdown of the Chart:
As seen on the chart above, I am currently at around 56% (This is including verbal commitments). That means I am predicting that about $16,180 is raised. I am so incredibly thankful for all who have committed and who have already given. The Lord is using your gifts in such a mighty way to encourage me and give me a picture of the role of the Church. As you give in faith that the Lord will work, I wait for the days when we can rejoice in fruits of your gifts that the Lord will surely provide.

Here's the next step: I still need a little over $8,000 to move to campus. I need about $12,289 to provide for an entire year on campus, meaning I would be able to stay all year and not step off campus to raise support. Please pray with me that the Lord would move people to give and to pray. It has become so obvious to me that I cannot do this on my own. God is doing this for His glory and my good. HIS glory, not mine, is the most important thing now and forever so I pray that this support raising process would be nothing less than another opportunity for His name to be lifted up.

"Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen."
Ephesians 3:20-21

By His grace-
Anna