God is most definitely in control:) I got accepted to YWAM-Denver last month. It has been so amazing knowing where I am going, and what I have been called to do, but it's also very stressful thinking about the money situation. I want to be able to say that I put myself through college and I didn't get any help, I don't want to be one of those kids who go off to college and don't care because mommy and daddy are footing the bill. NO THANK YOU, I am not that kind of person and when I am grown and have children of my own I want to be able to tell them how much more I appriciated college and all of the things I have because I paid for it. So I have really been praying for a job, which is extremely difficult to find in this lovely economy:) And I never found one. Well in the meantime Dave bugged me and bugged me about getting up and telling the church that I have been called to be a missionary, finally I gave in. I am mortified to even think back to two weeks ago when I did that...pretty much I got up there and cried my eyes out, I felt like a blubbering idiot in front of all 115 people that morning...they told me there were 115 but I felt like there was about 1,115 people watching me...anyways, I did it, and afterward I mostly felt better because of all the encouragement and feedback I have recieved. That week our church secretary resigned and the job was offered to me that Sunday night...God is so good:)...He answered my prayer in His timing and not mine. That week I also contacted my grandparents in Indy and told them how much I wanted to put myself through college and wondered if they would be interested in hiring me for a few months, they said that they would love that and in fact they had been talking about asking me to come work. So now I have it all worked out that if I can pick up some extra babysitting along with the 20 hours a week I am working and after taxes and tithe are taken out I should have enough to pay for all of my tuition and at least half of my outreach by October. All I can say is God truly rocks! I'm so excited that one day I am going to get to say that I put myself through college. The extra money that I don't get I'm going to see about taking out a personal loan and then paying it back once I get back in February. I'm really praying that they don't find another secretary until about...ohhh October 5...because I am only temporary, but I know that if they do God will provide He always does:)
That's all I really wanted to say, I leave for Haiti on Monday, and I am STOKED! I can't wait to go and serve, it's almost like I'm going home, just the thought of going back to Haiti makes me cry, I have missed it so much and I can't wait to be back in country serving alongside my brothers and sisters in Christ!
On a side note...I'm getting as bad as Stan...I had a donation of 1,000 sunglasses today to send into Haiti!! He won't find out where I got them, as far as he is concerned..I too have a "gettin' place." =-]
In Christ,
Jenny
"Every good action and every perfect gift is from God..."
-James 1:17a
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