Moses, Moses, Moses

13 days and counting! Is that scary or what? Time goes so quickly, it seems. I must say that I am really struggling trying to prepare for this trip! Some moments I'm ready to just get going, and other moments I'm terrified! Of what? I'm not exactly sure. I guess I just can't believe I'm going to be away from everything that I'm comfortable with, everything familiar, everything "safe" and everyone I love for so long! And I know in the grand scheme of things, two months is not long at all, but it sure feels like it! *sigh*

At times, I feel like Moses in Exodus 4. At times I want to ask God to just send someone else! I'm not ready, and I'm not qualified for such work! Its easy to look at that passage and think how foolish Moses was to question God. I mean, if the voice of God coming through a burning bush spoke to you and told you to do something, wouldn't it be a "duh" moment? But the more I think about it, the more I think I'm in the same spot Moses was: scared to death at what is being asked of me! I haven't been asked to do anything grand, glorious, or seemingly next to impossible, and no, I havent heard the voice of God from any burning bushes lately. But service is service, right? I know where God is asking me to be right now and I plan to obey. The problem is that I am at war within myself: the servant side vs. the selfish side. And what good is service if its done in the wrong attitude?

In the two weeks to come (and beyond, of course!), please be praying that my selfish side will cease, so that I can be as effective as possible in whatever opportunity I have the privilage of serving in!

Thank You God for sending me!
For Christ and His glory,

Lindsey Kae

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.