Living in Community

       So I just finished writing my support letter and it was harder than I thought.  Its pretty hard to try to sum up an experience you haven't had yet, and just talk about what you hope for and why you hope for those things.  I am also so aware of the fact I will need such a strong community around me as I begin this adventure.  Ultimately, I just want to go into this trip with my eyes and hands and heart open to whatever experience, life lesson, humorous accident, or plain culture shock that God wants me to have.  I don't know what to expect and I don't know how I will feel when its all done, but  I do know that I desire so much to be used by a God that is greater than me to meet the needs of the community in East Africa (whatever that need may be).  And if the skills I currently have can help with that also, than even better.  I just have faith right now that I am supposed to go on this trip now and not to wait any longer, and the rest I'm trusting God will take care of.

Here is the letter for those of you who would like to read it, but I think most of you will be getting one in the mail: