Sunday, May 30, 2010
Hello everyone and welcome to my blog!
After nearly 3.5 months, I have finally met and surpassed my goal of $5900 raised to go on Summer Project in Zambia. This past week, I received the final portions of my support, and then some more, so I am officially over 100% support and am set to go to Zambia in just about 2 weeks!
I am very thankful for all of the people who committed to support me either financially and/or prayerfully and how God provided so much more than I ever could have mustered under my own strength. My support team is made up of a very very diverse group of people. There are 71 people/families and they vary in age from students at Miami University to my Grandparents. They live all over the hemisphere in places like California, Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, and even Honduras! Some of them are very close friends and family, and some of them I have never met in person before. But they are all joined together on my team because they trusted God and supported my project in Zambia. A wonderful example of how big the body of Christ is!
So this is the main way I will be communicating what is going on in Zambia back to you. I have entitled my blog "Truth is who You are" after a song by Tenth Avenue North (if you haven't heard it, check out their new album The Light Meets the Dark) because it really resonates with me and why I chose to commit 6 weeks this summer to what God is doing in Zambia. The song is about how Jesus is actually the Truth. He's not an idea, or a thought we just came up with. He's not a belief that needs our defense, and he's not a hope we just hold on to. He's real. He really lived and really died on the cross to pay the penalty for all of mankind's sins and he really conquered death and rose from the dead. So if I know this is true, what should my response be? To tell people about it!
So the realization that Jesus is the Truth has pointed me to obey the Great Commission in the most literal of ways. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus approaches the disciples after he has risen and says, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:18-20, emphasis mine) So that is why I am going to Zambia, to share the good news that Jesus can be your savior, all you have to do is accept the free gift of salvation that he offers us through his death on the cross.
Thanks for reading this first post and for all of your prayers throughout the support raising process. Please keep praying for these next two weeks as I prepare spiritually, mentally, and physically (packing) and for safety as we travel to Zambia. Hopefully there will be quite a few more posts while I am there!
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3 comments:
God has great plans for you. May He lead you where you are mostly needed. God bless.
Hey, you didn't mention you have people praying for you here in Costa Rica. Well, maybe you didn't know. Anyway, I'll be praying for you while following your steps in the blog. XOXO
Nice post!
I am (Riley) excited to see how God works in you to move the hearts of those in Zambia!
Godspeed!!
Hey Kevin! Praying for you, Jesse, the whole crew!
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