I was hoping to write this blog from an airport lounge or maybe even from Tajikistan letting you know that I had made it safely or was on my way to my final destination, but as with all things with the Lord, my plans are subject to change with what the Lord wants.
Yesterday, I talked with my outreach partner Tim and we decided that we were not going to make this trip. During the phone call we decided that it would be best to not make this trip. Pakistan is still on out minds and we hope to make a trip out soon but as of now it is postponed. We still believe that the Lord spoke to us about going to Pakistan and these things have not changed.
There were a couple factors for me that prevented me from making this trip. One of the reasons we cancelled the trip was due to the lack of finances by this past Sunday. Our goal was to leave Sunday and return by the 18th or 19th of August. By the end of this time I was still $2800 short. Another factor currently is that our visas are still being processed at the Pakistan Embassy. The normal process should not have taken as long but for some reason there seems to have been a delay. There were other factors in the mix but these are the two main reasons.
Both Tim and I will be losing money for the visa process fee and hopefully we will be receiving our passports back from the embassy very soon. Through all this we feel we have done our part to be obedient to the Lord with preparing ourselves for this journey and should the opportunity arise again, I shall be attempting another trip to Pakistan.
In the mean time, I will be at Washington D.C. House of Prayer/ YWAM DC until school starts. We currently have a youth group outreach team visiting us from Indiana. They will be here until Friday and will be doing ministry with us. Next week, there will be another youth group outreach team. This team will be from Virginia beach and has been said that they are a radical bunch. Both of these teams will help till the ground for revival in America as well as the David's tent event in the fall. I will hopefully be posting more information on David's tent very soon
On a different note, I feel that my blog has primarily been used to send out little posts for support raising and although it is necessary, I feel it takes away from the point of this blog. I created this as a way to give out updates on what I am doing in missions. To be certain, I will always have financial need doing missions but that is not the main purpose for this blog site. So unless it is a special circumstance, I will try to leave my financial support information on a separate page while updating the main post with different events and activities that I have, am, or will be participating in.
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There were a couple factors for me that prevented me from making this trip. One of the reasons we cancelled the trip was due to the lack of finances by this past Sunday. Our goal was to leave Sunday and return by the 18th or 19th of August. By the end of this time I was still $2800 short. Another factor currently is that our visas are still being processed at the Pakistan Embassy. The normal process should not have taken as long but for some reason there seems to have been a delay. There were other factors in the mix but these are the two main reasons.
Both Tim and I will be losing money for the visa process fee and hopefully we will be receiving our passports back from the embassy very soon. Through all this we feel we have done our part to be obedient to the Lord with preparing ourselves for this journey and should the opportunity arise again, I shall be attempting another trip to Pakistan.
In the mean time, I will be at Washington D.C. House of Prayer/ YWAM DC until school starts. We currently have a youth group outreach team visiting us from Indiana. They will be here until Friday and will be doing ministry with us. Next week, there will be another youth group outreach team. This team will be from Virginia beach and has been said that they are a radical bunch. Both of these teams will help till the ground for revival in America as well as the David's tent event in the fall. I will hopefully be posting more information on David's tent very soon
On a different note, I feel that my blog has primarily been used to send out little posts for support raising and although it is necessary, I feel it takes away from the point of this blog. I created this as a way to give out updates on what I am doing in missions. To be certain, I will always have financial need doing missions but that is not the main purpose for this blog site. So unless it is a special circumstance, I will try to leave my financial support information on a separate page while updating the main post with different events and activities that I have, am, or will be participating in.
