So It Begins

First of all, welcome to my blog! I hope you'll enjoy our journey!
My name is Lindsey, for those of you who don' know me, and I'm about to leave the country with my younger brother Jordan. Not to say we're "fleeing" the country, just a short trip across the pond! Specifically, we're on our way to Barishivka, Ukrain from February 14th-April 1st. We will be helping Dan Pollard with the finish work on the church there!

Now, I'm going to tell you a secret.....I've never really done finish work before! In fact, I'm quite nervous about going....I almost decided NOT to go! But I'll tell you another secret.....you can't tell God you're "not good enough" or you're "not qualified" for a job He's given to you! If He puts a desire in your heart, you cannot allow fear to keep you from fulfilling that desire. Thats what I've done for the longest time. My dad will tell you I've talked about doing missions work of various kinds for years now. And I have. But I've always been to afraid to go through with any plan I've made: afraid of going alone, afraid of not knowing what to do, afraid of not being effective, and the list goes on.

When my brother mentioned that he was planning to go to Barishivka, I jokingly suggested I go. And my dad promptly said "Why not?". Well because I've never done this kind of work before! Thats why not! But the more I thought about it, the more I knew that wasn't a good enough excuse. So I told myself I didn't want to be away from home for so long. But that one didn't really cut it either. After all, I'd be going with my brother! And since JP is going too, I certainly couldn't use the excuse that I didn't want to go alone. Well, to make a long story short, I ran out of excuses.

What I've come to realize is that while I may not be experienced in building, the work that I do there will be in God's strength and not my own, and as a result, God will be glorified. What could be better?
So this blog will be letting you come along with us and see the progress we make as well as let you know in what ways you can pray for us!

At the moment, you can pray for the process of getting over there! Travel expenses and the cost of living will be about $3600 for the two of us and we are trying to raise and additional $5000 for the building materials, and as this was a last minute decision to go, we have very little time to do so!
Thank you so much for your prayer support as we start this journey! I can't wait to share with you how God is working!

For Christ and His glory,
Lindsey K.