Nashville, Tennessee. Tuesday, September 13, 2005. 8:45am... At that time tomorow, I will be leaving the good ol' US of A and headed to different country, on a wild and crazy adventure to join the ranks of the already launched 2005 AFM SM's! The money has been raised, the training compleated, the luggage packed, and the last will and testament written...just kidding! But just about all the preperations have been made to leave. I'll fly from Nashville to Chicago, and then from Chicago to Bankock, Thailand. And that will be one miserable long flight... around 16 hours of flight! I'll get to Bankock at 11 pm, and will spend the night there, then the next morning I will take a short flight from Bankock to Chiang Mai. It's gonna be interesting doing it all by myself, and kinda intimidating, but I know I'll have angels provided by your prayers. It will be intersting trying to find my hotel though... anyway, just keep me in your prayers. I miss all you guys!! I'll be praying for you as you raise the reast of your money and get ready to launch! Later ~ Sha
Just thought I'd post and update everyone who's interrested on my fundraising progress. On the Sabbath before summer training started, I spoke at the Rockford Beacon of Light Church. Two Sabbaths ago I spoke at the Belvedere Church, which is on the other side of Rockford, IL. At the Belvedere Church people were very moved by the sermon I gave on missionary work, and at least 3 or 4 people were crying just a couple minutes into the sermon. Afterwards, despite the video not working at all, and my slide show getting messed up while it was playing, people were waiting for me to hand them a donation envelope as I stood at the back of the sanctuary to hand them out. During pot-luc, more people came over to get envelopes from me, at least one person filled out her envelope right there for a credit card donation. Even the pastor said he would probably help, even though he's going on a mission trip of his own to Cuba. That church is actually trying to send as many of their members as possible on that mission to Cuba, yet they were all very eager to help out with this mission to Palawan, in spite of being a small church.
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