Outreach Location!!

On the 22nd of April we were given the choices of where we could go on outreach. Let me give you a little bit of history first though. When I was 12 years old I was given a card by a spiritual leader of mine and said two things... the first thing was that the Lord was going to start showing me NEW colors that had never been seen before, and when I began to spoke they would pour out. and the second was "India". I was talking to my dad the other day about that experience and he brought to my attention that that wasn't the first time India was brought to me... when I was 9 years old I randomly started to have a heart for India. For the past 10 years I have longed to go, I have prayed about going, I have had this desire for those people and an interest to just know them and their culture. But I had never made a move to actually GO. So this whole time I have been praying that maybe it was the Lords desire for me to actually go to India. The night before we received our Outreach Options, I kept hearing "India. India. India. India." And honestly, I felt like it was the enemy because I did not want to get discouraged, haha. So when we were sitting in the room and they were putting the places on the board... "Haiti/Dominican Republic", "Mexico", "Philippines", and "INDIA". Immediately my heart JUMPED... and of course started crying, haha (nothing has changed right). So I put down my options and left. Praying, hoping over the whole weekend that things would turn out well - but trying to put my trust in the Lord that even if I didn't get to go, there was a reason." So on Tuesday we had a party. We danced the night away. We ate ice cream and drank coffee. And they announced our teams... and INDIA is what the Lord has for me. I can't even begin to describe the beauty of this. The verse that says "Seek first His kingdom and ALL these things should be added unto you" has become more real to me in this past month than ever before in my life. I did nothing to seek out India, I just trusted that it would come in it's time... and God has brought it in the perfect time. What a beautiful thing :) Here are a couple pictures of the night!!

Our table on Dessert Night :)
Jorn & Ben from Germany, Me, Laura & Zach from Kansas, and Jonathan from Philadelphia

This is our WHOLE DTS - 50 students + Leaders :D

And some of us girls - MoaMoa, Erika, Me and Marisa

So on July 1st (or the end of June) we will set out for Dharmapuri, India. It will take 3 days traveling time to get there with all of the layovers and such. We have 19 amazing people on our team and Jessica and Scott are our leaders who are awesome!! Tomorrow I need $1200 to basically put a "down payment" on our outreach stuff. Then by June 6th I need the rest of the money. The whole outreach is going to be $6000 total. I am fully relying on the Lord in this time to provide, and I believe that He will. If any of you feel it on your heart to partner with me financially, even if its a $1.00 - it would be such a blessing. If you feel it on your heart to partner with prayer PLEASE do so!! Prayers are such a huge blessing as well :) The closer it gets to the time we leave the more I will know about what we will be exactly doing and I will be sure to update you guys and whats going on!! I am so excited for this journey and what the Lord has planned.