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Shimbly September.

I do feel as if I have possibly neglected my news from this last month…I feel like I am late, I’m not thought, right? It is just the end of September.

First of the firstlies, I want to thank each of you for your petitions in pra*yer for our school’s finances. Such a beautiful ending came about ten minutes before our plane tickets needed to be purchased. We were standing in the classroom, singing songs of tha*nksgiving while Darcy, the school leader frantically recalculated all the inflow of finances. Sure enough, while we shouting “there was thunder in his footsteps and lightning in his fis---“, the board was erased. All 232,571 dollars had come in.

What has been learned?
1. I want to be like an air popper, where seeds (finances) are poured into me and I pop them right back out.
2. I have never seen a worried bird.
3. Pra*yer IS where it’s at.

Countless stories of generosity, money flowing through one person and into the hand of another. There were a couple instances personally about G*od prompting me to ask a specific person for a certain amount…not something so “socially acceptable”, but man oh man, I saw G*od use this in a massive way. Much more massive than release of finances. Okay, just one story. I asked a friend from Germany to pr*ay about giving 200 euros. Now that’s quite a bit of money, about 400 AUD. So he was praying, and after a week we were able to talk again, and he shared that he was on the brink of losing his apartment and that he still had bills to pay and that at this time he couldn’t give. I was able to pr*ay for him over the internet and to keep me posted. He needed a friend at that moment. Even though that felt purposeful, I felt for sure that that where there would be release. Anyway, I walked home, feeling confused, exhausted and wondering-“G*od, tomorrow I need 3,600, where is it going to come from?”...Oh me of little faith.
I walked into my bedroom and splayed across my floor was 400 AUD.
Unity. So G*od’s heart, that we are cared for and that we learn to care for each other.

Today is the day that we leave as a team of 27 for Tanzania. G*od has been faithful to me in making moments for me to take deep breaths and refocus, time to scramble to the city and half hour blocks to call my family.

We will be staying at a base there, working in a local clinic that has about a delivery a day as well as a government hospital that has roughly 50 labouring women a day. Our team will live in a muslim community where the main water source is on our property, we will have many chances to share the liv*ing water. ☺

Well guys, this month has come and gone with eagerness. The students are ready on the front lines. They are amazingly inquisitive, encouragers of one another, dreaming big and diligent learners.

Thank you all for the pra*yers and ask for your continued support! I will still be blogging and communicating there approximately weekly. You guys are the best!

Bekah