AHHHH!!!!!! BLESSINGS!!!!!!!!

So wow, talk about an amazing tour.  This has been one of those times that God just wants to Bless your socks off, then to remedy the situation, he buys you more socks.  We stayed with a lady that used to work in a salon.  She gave us hair products out the wazoo.  People gave to us left and right.  We were a tad concerned at first because this was the tour that the California team usually flies back to Home Base and we were the California team.  A Blessing in disguise, the last two services cancelled, so we were told we were to drive back.  Well, at least our suitcases didn’t have to go on diets.

Anyway, at one point in time the whole team was a tad low on supplies and mostly broke.  At the same time, some of us weren’t feeling too well either.  I was one of those not feeling well.  I felt I needed to go to the doctor but I couldn’t afford it and I knew my parents couldn’t help either.  We prayed for God to either give us PC (personal cash) or have a host take us shopping to get essentials.  We got to our destination a place that had never seen us before, and that’s where the climax happened.  A friend of the host, not even the host themselves, wanted to take those of us not feeling well to the doctor.  Not only did she pay for that, but then she took us to Wal-Mart to fill our prescriptions, which she also paid for.  While we were waiting for the prescriptions to fill, she asked us if we or any of the rest of the team needed stuff.  Answer to prayer!!  Not only did she get us what we asked for, shampoo and conditioner and stuff, but she also threw into the basket random things she thought we could use whether we asked for them or not.  Later that day, this same lady gave us all a card thanking us for who we were and for what we do, (she still had yet to see us do anything besides our host home ministry) and there was one hundred dollars a piece in the cards.  We finally get a round to doing the service for the church that had set us up and a lady asked my coordinator who she would write a check out to if she wanted us to have the money personally, not just the ministry.  She wrote a check for $500, again another one hundred dollars a piece for the whole team.  Now this was a Wednesday service and that Sunday we went to another brand new church, never seen us before.  After the service, Pastor’s Wife gave us each a thank you card, again with one hundred dollars a piece.  That’s three hundred dollars personal cash a piece plus someone took us shopping and to the doctor for necessities, all in less than a week.  All that said, and that’s not even the point of my story.

God is most definitely good, but there is one more giver this tour that deserves to be mentioned.  There was a sweet lady the girls stayed with in Benson, Arizona.  She lived by herself in a little trailer out in the boonies.  Her only companions were just a couple dogs.  Her son was in the military over seas, and she’d been divorced from an abusive husband for quite a few years.  When she gave, she gave out of all she had.  In rich terms, it wasn’t a lot, but she wanted to bless us and make sure we were taken care of.  She let us sleep in her house and eat her food.  She scrounged for little gifts because she wanted to bless us in return.  As much as everyone else gave us this tour, none of it compares to what this sweet lady gave.  I’m reminded of a scripture in Luke 21:2-4  “He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.  ‘I tell you the truth,’ he said, ‘this poor widow has put in more than all the others.  All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.’” 

I just want to encourage you to not be concerned about earthly riches.  God will provide.  We had nothing, and in a week had $300 plus stuff.  And our host had nothing, but still was able give and trust that God would continue to take care of her.  Again as always, I am needing financial support.  There is a mission trip to England or possibly elsewhere being planned this coming fall.  If you would like to support me there is a Pay Pal link at the bottom of this page.  And as always, prayer is the most important thing.  God Bless.