Blog

Explore My News,
Thoughts & Inspiration

RSS Feed

April 2009 Newsletter (with new financial update at bottom!)

note: if you’d like to receive a copy of my newsletter in the mail, please contact me with your info!
 

Shaye’s Story

 

Ministry Snapshot

My Community Life family regularly goes out of our home to serve together. Last week, we cooked a rockin’ meal and went to serve it at a local soup kitchen. I expected a big, open gym with lots of people milling around waiting for food. Instead, it was a community center that was literally wall-to-wall with people in community with one another, letting us serve them. I am experiencing so many new and exciting things here!

 
 

Come Fly With Me

I remember my first plane ride. I was 3 years old and flew with my mom. We were going to Virginia so I could have surgery. I was captivated by the entire experience. In fact, I think the most fascinating part to me was the makeshift “tv-tray” that popped out of the seat in front of me. While eating my ham and cheese sandwich (this is when they still served food for free on planes) and staring in amazement at the clouds underneath me, I thought that I must be on the biggest adventure on earth.

It is now time for a new adventure!!! In a little over one month, I will be traveling with 14 college students and my co-leader to Kenya, Africa for a month of ministry! My job is primarily to help these young adults journey through their own encounters with God while on the mission field. The participants will be working with AIDS orphans and locals in Kibera, the slum of Nairobi. I know that in my different missions experiences, the leaders that took me and taught me were monumental in my journey of discovering the call on my heart toward missions. I cannot wait to play this kind of role in the lives of these 14 young adults.

Here is where you can be part of this adventure! In the words of Frank Sinatra, Come Fly with Me! As a leader, I do not need to pay for the entire trip; only my airfare. The cost of the airfare is $2500 and I’ve raised $220 toward it so far. Most of my expenses for Community Life have already been covered and right now, the biggest need I have is getting to Kenya!

So, Come Fly with Me! As God leads your heart, you can support me right here!  To the left, you’ll see a tab that says “Support Me Here!”.  If you select this, you’ll find a quick, easy and secure process to donate online.  If you’d like to donate another way, please contact me and I’ll get you the necessary information.  I am so anxious to see how God uses this big adventures in both our lives! Note: The picture above was taken by an AIM missionary on the field.

 

Prayer Requests

Please pray for my relationships with my roommates. I consider these women my family and I am learning how to work through some significant conflict. Pray that God would teach me His ways!

Please pray that God would make me a leader after His heart. I long to be godly & effective in my time in Kenya.

Pray that my heart would remain faithful to Jesus.
 
 

Financial Update

Currently, I have raised 85% of my expenses for Community Life between gifts and pledges. Thank you!
As mentioned above, my need for this trip to Kenya is to raise a total of $2500. Since I have raised $220, I still need to raise $2280 for this mission trip! If you’d like to help, you can donate in one of the two ways mentioned above. Feel free to contact me with any questions! 
NOTE:  Since I wrote this newsletter 2 weeks ago, God has been faithful to move the hearts of many people and I have $1565 more toward my trip to Kenya!  Now, I have only $715 that I still have to raise toward my ticket.  Praise God!  Thank you to His people for making this possible.