Sending and Being Sent

So, this month we began the adventure called "support raising." If you have friendships with missionaries, or ever did this yourself, you will be pretty familiar with this concept. If you are like me (Heather), it's a totally new experience!

We've gotten the same question a couple of times already. "Why don't you go to an international school where you can just be paid and go sooner?" Yes, it's so tempting, to be taken care of financially and to start this next stage in our lives. But, I would probably be more apprehensive than I am now, even with this task of raising all our financial support before we go.

First of all, RVA will still be there if we were to go somewhere else. But most of all, I feel so much peace knowing we won't leave until we have all our support in. And this is not really about money. To have people sending us means so much. Our senders will be intentional in prayer and love, and will believe in what we are doing. I know we would be prayed for if we were going somewhere that didn't require quite this level of preparation, but probably not as much. It gives me so much peace to know we will be covered in prayer as we go.

So thank you, for the prayers that are already coming our way!