I have met my goal for fundraising this year for the Milwaukee trip! I can't believe it! But a total of $280 has been raised by yours truly this year. Wow, this is so weird! But from now on none of my blog posts will be about fundraising (yippee!) but only focusing on what God's doing in other ways. But what am I going to do now that my trip is all paid for? Well over the past couple of weeks I have been reading the Voice of the Martyrs newsletter and Richard Wurmbrand's book Tortured for Christ (thanks so much Lil!). Also I have been praying for a certain underground missionary in West Africa who came to my church to speak about a year ago. Through this whole experience and just like when I see people praying in public or even a facebook flair about Jesus, I really feel like God has been calling me to the Underground Church. I really feel like He has been calling me to the countries (especially Islamic countries) where Christ's name isn't allowed to be spoken. So I think my next move after this Milwaukee trip is toward that calling. Thanks so much for your prayer and support as I have raised money for this trip. And now we can rejoice that it is finally finished!
Okay I just got back from the car wash a few hours ago... soaking wet! It was buckets full of fun and I did remember to wear sunscreen. We washed about 150 cars (somebody tell me if I'm wrong) and got a bunch of donations. Some funny moments from the car wash:
- While doing our shifts holding up signs and hollering at innocent bystanders about the car wash, I accidental screamed "Free Parking Lot at the Church Car Wash!" and somebody actually believed me and asked more about it.
- Sofia and Shawnee were holding up signs outside of Ritas and the store owner came out and gave them free Ritas. So everybody sort of migrated over to their spot until Corry had to come over and get more people to actually wash the cars.
- One of the Steelers came to get their car washed.
So you get the idea. We worked our sponges and squeegees to shreds to make those cars squeaky clean, we had some fun splashing each other along the way, we raised money for the missions trips. Thanks so much if you came by to get your car washed or donated money!
Again so sorry that I haven't been able to get a real post up in awhile but I think I have finally fixed that problem! I signed up for google mobile blogging so hopefully I can post more when I'm actually on location. During the actually trip I don't think we can actually use our phones (we couldn't last year sadly) but I will definitely do an in depth post after the trip. Speaking of, the trip is coming closer every day! It's so exiting, I can't wait!
Anyway, this coming Saturday is yet another one of those Student Ministries fundraiser, but this out of all of them is my favorite. The Car Wash! You don't have to donate anything if you want to but you can definitely come and get your car washed. Just by coming to the church (ACAC) you will be helping us out allot. You see every student gets a few friends and family members to pledge a certain number of cents per car that we will wash on Saturday so just by coming you can help fund the trips.
One of the reasons that the Car Wash is my favorite of all of the fundraisers that we did last year is because it is so fun! We build fellowships with our fellow short term missionaries, get wet, get our first taste of what the trip will be like, get wet, wash cars, raise funds, and did I mention get wet? Yes by the end of the day we are soaked from head to toe! That's fun for some people but it is heaven for others! Ha ha, if you we wondering yes we actually do get allot of cars washed in the midst of all that getting wet and having fun we are doing. :) Actually we washed about 350 cars last year, that's a little bit of information to keep in mind if your planning on pledging.
So to close this post, I am starting to really feel Milwaukee coming closer. God's really been preparing my heart for service. Pastor Rock's sermon on service and freedom a few weeks ago (Yay for ACAC Pod casts!) and then it just seems like service and missions have been reoccurring themes in my bible readings. I've been reading up on some old issues of Youth Walk (an amazing monthly devotional that Ms. Kim gave me) about missions too. I am really getting exited for this and more than ever I feel God with me on my way to this missions trip.
After Note: OOPS I almost forgot to include the times of the carwash! The email from Jane says that its on Saturday June 6th and its from 9:30am - 2:00pm. Wow thats going to be a long day :)
