Hello Everybody!
I would like to officially announce to you all that I will be traveling to the Mathare Valley in Kenya, Africa this summer. Mountain Christian Church is sending 80+ people from the congregation to bring the hope of Jesus to a poverty stricken place. We are divided into several smaller teams, and I am on the sewing and knitting team. We will be teaching women of the valley how to make certain marketable sewn and knitted projects that they can sell to help provide for their families. I am very excited to teach them such a valuable skill but I am even more excited for the relationships that are going to be built while there. I already know that God will be working in ways that I can not even imagine.
A picture of the Mathare Slums which hundreds of thousands of people call home.
I know that this trip is going to significantly expand my comfort zone, but I am glad for that. There will not be change in the world if we all stay within our comfort zones. I am preparing myself for the challenge and growth that will occur during this trip. Please join me in praying for the people of the Mathare Valley, and for our team that will be going there in June.
I am praying to you
because I know you will answer, O God.
Bend down and listen as I pray.
-Psalm 17:6
Currently, I am working on my support letters that I will be sending to many of my family and friends. In these letters I will be giving information about my trip (much of which will be able to be found here), and asking for two things:
- I am asking for you to commit to praying for my trip to Kenya. Prayers that our team and the people who we will be interacting with will be able to attentively listen to the perfect calling of God. This is my most important request because without God, this trip will not be possible.
- I am asking for monetary donations toward my trip. I hate having to ask for money but it is an essential part of the process of going on a short-term mission trip and very important. If you would like to give you can give online at http://mountainchristian.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=104852, or wait patiently until you receive a support letter.
I would greatly appreciate it if you are able to do one, or both of these things, but above all, I am requesting your prayers. Thank you in advance for joining me in an endeavor to follow God into areas that desperately need his unfailing love.
Romans 8:35-39:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In Christ,
Mackenzie
