21 days!! What we need most...

I have this pile of "things to take" sitting on my kitchen table and chair. It's official that we are getting the those necessities ready to go, things like dry shampoo (there's no telling what options we will have), toilet paper (very much needed, cause again, there's no telling)...

What we need most are prayer warriors...

Tanzania Mission Trip 2016 – Prayer Guide

“Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.” Acts 13:3

Dates: Wed. Sept 21^st – Friday, Oct. 7th

The Team - Bro. Scott and Leslie Whitson, Ken and Michele West, Paula Moore, Bobby Rich, Chris Smith, Becky Willyard, Alley Fuller and Taylor Willyard.

Pray for our hearts to be open and guided only by God’s plans for this trip. That He gives us divine opportunities to share salvation and that we are aware and ready to respond when those moments arise. Pray for our individual health, safe travels (plane, bus, taxi’s), and for our families that may be holding normal activities in place in our absences. Pray for any additional funds that may be pending.

Our translators – Bro. Jeremiah and Bro. Elias along with the others, we don’t have names for as of now. Pray God gives them the words that coordinate with our language. Pray for the travels and their families holding normal activities in place.

Other areas to pray:

Outreach – door to door visitations

Sunday Services

Pastors and Wives Conferences

For the Pastors hearts to be open and receptive to God’s words, their travels to the conference and for their families.

For the wives and other women who attend that they are also open and receptive to God’s word.

For the children in each area as we reach out to them through various Bible Club activities each day.

Safari travels and opportunities to share Christ during this time but also a time to be refreshed in His beautiful creation.

Below is a schedule if you’d like to pray for specific times/details of our trip:

Sept. 21/22 – Depart DFW to Entebbe, Uganda – stay overnight

Sept. 23 – Bus to Bukoba, Tanzania

Sept. 24 – Rest, Plan, Pray

Sept. 25 – Visit/Preach in Bukoba area churches – split into 3 teams

Sept. 26 through 28^th am – Bukoba Pastor/Wives Seminar and afternoon Bible Clubs for area children

Sept. 28 pm – Travel to Biharamulo

Sept. 29 through Oct 1^st am – Biharamulo Pastor/Wives Seminars and afternoon Bible Clubs for area children

Oct. 2 – Visit Preach in Biharamulo area churches – split into 3 teams

Oct. 3 – Travel to Mwanza, spend the night

Oct. 4 through 6 – Sahari, travel to Arusha, Tanzania

Oct. 6/7 – Depart from Kilimanjaro Int’l Airport travel to DFW- arrive at 3:15 pm

Where are these places you ask? Here is Tanzania, Africa.

And here are the places we will be...

We are going for only one reason, to show and share the love of Christ.

Becky, Alley and Taylor

You are going with us...

Are hearts are full with all of the love an support we have received for this trip! God has brought each one of you into our lives and so a part of you will be with us on this journey! It could not have been possible without you.

We are now 50% closer to our goal just compared to three weeks ago, putting us at 70%!! Wow! God is so faithful! We just know that the remain 30% is going to be downhill ride. We currently have our Cookie Dough Fundraiser in progress, our goal is to sell 300 boxes of cookies...yikes!

It's hard to believe that it's less than one month away! Someone asked me the other day, "What happens if you don't get all of your funds?" I honestly didn't have an answer, not because I didn't have a plan, but because I still fully believe God has called us on this trip and my faith rests completely in Him.

Preparation is vital as we approach the next few weeks; creating lists to bring for personal supplies, picking up some skirts for Taylor, getting the supplies for the children lessons and games...all good stuff and needed, but if we aren't preparing the most important item, our hearts, then we are going to miss this all together. Last week Taylor and I started to see how God wanted us to prepare our hearts for this trip, He led us to the Galatians 5:22-23 The Fruits of the Spirit. We are praying over each fruit and asking God to fill us with His Spirit so that we may produce the kind of fruit He wants to see in us. Please join us in this prayer as well.

We are going for only one reason, to show and share the love of Christ.

Becky, Alley and Taylor

When the number seems too big!

 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26

We can get so busy looking and worrying about things we need, that we miss the blessing in between. As I knew the toughest part of preparing for this trip would be to leave my worry behind as we started our fundraising. I remind myself over and over again that I feel very confident in God's calling on us for this trip that I know with all of my heart He will provide the way. We've really come so far so quickly, so as we are approaching just over one month to go, the number seems high, but my God is faithful. 

This past Saturday we met with our team (10 of us) going on this trip. We learned some basic information and received some assignments. I will get to work with the children! I think the only hard part about planning this is how to fill 2-3 hours without tables for crafts and very, very minimal supplies to bring. Overall it's going to be a blast sharing Jesus with them and loving on them! I think the biggest word will be GAMES!

Woohoo!! Look who got her passport in! She was pretty excited to see it.

One of the most exciting parts of this trip is that it's not our first trip, so there are things we know we can do that maybe we held back from doing before, and things we know we need to do better where we failed before. Oh how I praise God for the second chance.

Up next...we will share you one of the ways we are preparing our hearts for the trip. God has clearly showed me the first word, "LOVE."

We are going for only one reason, to show and share the love of Christ.

Becky, Alley and Taylor

Because he loves us!!!

This guy has been nothing but a huge support to me and the ministry God has called me to be in and he continues to show true to this after this crazy garage sale weekend!! Haha! He is behind us going back 100%! We praise God for him every day!

This weekend we had huge success with our garage/yard sale fundraiser!! It was a lot of work and we are still recuperating but it's SOOOO worth it! Both of the girls worked hard and sacrificed their time and energy, even in the hottest part of the day! Watching Taylor continue to sort and organize clothes in the heat of the sun to loading up the left overs in the hottest part of the day showed me how much she feels called to this trip. We even made it through with out melt downs, yes from me too!! We each stood strong and worked hard!

 




So were are we at now? Check out the new goal tracker on the page. We are making progress that's for sure! 

What's next? 

We are wrapping up the end of the T-shirt Fundraiser, thank you to all who supported this one! This weekend is the first team meeting, I'm so excited to see what God has in store for each of us.  Pray for us to bring the exact message that they need to hear from God, through us.

We are also going to have another fundraiser...cookie dough!! Who doesn't love them some cookie dough right? We will start taking orders soon, so stay tuned.

We are going for only one reason, to show and share the love of Christ.

Becky, Alley and Taylor

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