Support

I have been given so much encouragement and support in the last several weeks- it is incredible!  A pep talk from Life Group, prayers from family and friends, unexpected checks in the mail, sweet comments from my co-workers, an inbox full of encouraging emails, inspirational conversations with people I respect, so many listening ears, thoughtful Christmas gifts and notes... all ways that I've been shown God's love.  It's hard to have doubts when He is blessing my dream to live and work on the Africa Mercy, and I haven't even left yet!  I feel like I'm on the receiving end of this command:

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.  1 Thessalonians 5:11

Thank you everyone, you're amazing.

(Countdown: less than 3 weeks to go!)

Crazy

Here is a list of things that are crazy (in no particular order):

 

• A floating hospital
• Resigning from a job I love
• Living and working in West Africa
• Working some night shifts again
• The incredible support of the people that love me
• Shut the front door... there's a Starbucks on the ship?!
• Saying goodbye to co-workers
• Committing to an extra 5+ weeks on board (yep, you read right!)
• Leaving in about a month
• God providing for me every step of the way
• Having a use for my twin sheets for a bunk bed again (anyone remember the dinosaur themed dorm room?)
• Working alongside over 400 crew members from across the world

 

In other news, Mercy Ships remodeled its website, isn't it looking fabulous...?

 

 

 

 

The website shares that in 2011, during their visit to Sierra Leone they performed:

• 3,300 life-changing general surgeries
•  More than 2,600 eye surgeries
•  More than 34,700 dental treatments
•  About 10,000 medical consultations

In addition, the crew trained more than 450 local health-care professionals in anesthesiology, orthopedic and reconstructive surgery, midwifery and eye surgery.

(Check it out for yourselves: http://www.mercyships.org/)




I cannot wait to be part of this amazing organization! 
 
 
“But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.”  -Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God