Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Another Beginning


I'm less than 24 hours away from the official beginning of my Fiji Summer Project! The past week has been busy getting prepared for the next 7ish weeks. One aspect of the busy-ness was continuing to raise the last bit of financial support. Last year the way God provided for my trip to Zambia was incredible, I had very little trouble getting to the target amount and was over 100% supported weeks before the trip. This time around it was a very different story, but being challenged to stay diligent in the support raising process was a growing experience. It caused me to depend on God a whole lot more than last year and commit to working at it with a heart for the Lord. But through all the challenges God provided enough for me to go to Fiji and I am thankful to have gone through the last few months of support raising.

Tomorrow I will drive from Aurora, Ohio to Indianapolis, Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana!) and meet the rest of the Fiji team at a hotel near the airport, where we will stay Wednesday and Thursday night for briefing until we begin our journey to Fiji early Friday morning.

I am so excited to finally begin the project, I feel like I've been thinking about this trip forever! Hearing stories from the STINT team, which is made up of 6 recent Miami Grads who have been in Fiji since January and will be there til November, and the spring break team has made me more and more eager to finally just go. God has been doing incredible things at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji and I can't wait to be a part of it. So many students have been placing their faith in Christ for the first time and then beginning to take part in bible studies and discipleship so that they can grow in their faith! It is a very exciting time to be doing ministry in Fiji. What has attracted me specifically to this project has been the amount of fruit that is being seen at USP as well as the strategic location that it is. USP is owned and governed by 12 island nations in the south pacific, and each country sends their best students to study there, and then they all go back to their home countries to pursue careers. While they are at USP the students who are impacted by Crusade's ministry will naturally be sent to continue spreading the Gospel and teaching others through discipleship.

This blog will be the main way that I communicate with you about what is going on while I am in Fiji. I appreciate all of you who read this and I encourage you to keep me, the Fiji team, and the people we will meet in Fiji in your prayers throughout the next 7 weeks. I look forward to sharing my trip with you!

Posted by Kevin Joseph Timmons at 5:17 PM

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