Heat and Hope

It amazes me that today, so far the hottest day of the summer, I've seen more walkers and runners outside than any other day since I've been home. Bizarre. Why do people torture themselves like that?

Also, the heat seems to track the oddest crowd of people into the cool, artsy coffeeshop I'm typing this from. A teen plugged his electric guitar into the wall and just started jamming for the past hour, making every I-tune's song I was listening to with my ear buds sound like a re-mix.

Well, I leave for Syracuse tomorrow and I'm still not at 100% with support. But I feel at peace and I'm just really trusting God will provide in His timing. But please continue to pray that He'll provide a few miracles so I'll be about finished when I return home after briefing. Thanks!

Getting there!

Slowly but surely support is coming along. I feel like I can even see the light at the end of the tunnel! My goal is to be 100% finished in pledges by the time I head up to Syracuse for a friend's wedding. I'll probably be leaving August 11th. To be done so fast will really take a few miracles, but I want to have faith that God can do this! Please pray that this will happen. After my time in Syracuse, I fly out to Colorado where we have our STINT briefing. This was such a great conference last year and I'm so looking forward to being a part of it again. I'm especially excited to meet the new team! There are four of us returners: Katie, Amanda, Bryce and me and four new STINTers: Stu, Shannon, Jennie and Michele. Katie and Stu will be our new leaders. Thinking about the new year makes me wish I could just be in Berlin now and skip the rest of this support raising process, but obviously that's not the way it works! Again, please pray that my support will come in in big ways! Thank you!