things that cost $25: number 3

3 movie tickets = $25.

instead of spending $25 to go to a movie in the theater,

you & your friends can rent a movie for $1 at Redbox, pop some corn from the cabinet

& support a missionary kid with the money you would have spent at the theater.

Right after Christmas, I'm trying to head up to Montana to serve with YWAM for 2 years.

This is full-time volunteer position, so I have to raise my own funds...

I will need a minimum of $500 a month, which covers food, housing, extra expenses, etc.

I will not be able to support myself, so I'm asking people to pray & ask God if He might have you become one of my monthly supporters.

If I can get 18 more people/families to give $25 a month, 

I will be fully supported!

For me, this is all about others coming to know Jesus. while in Montana, I'll be discipling students who come for 5 month discipleship training schools, and leading groups of these students to other countries to tell people about Jesus. I know God did a lot in my heart as I went through this school and to India with YWAM, I believe he wants to do amazing things in the hearts of the students and in other nations and i am thrilled to be a part of it.

If you feel led to support me financially, you can go to paulann.org/give or contact me for more information. All donations are tax deductible. 

Just leave a comment or email me at justdandyy@gmail.com

I love you guys! thanks for reading.

click here for more info:

ywammontana.org/dts

number 1

number 2

giving thanks.

i don't want to be a person who chooses to be thankful one day a year.

may i learn to see the beauty, grace & gift all all things.
big & small. every single day for the rest of my life.
learning to view all things as gifts leads you to thanksgiving,
which leads to joy.  in every season of life, in every high & low,
lord, teach me to give thanks.
to rejoice in every circumstance,
to rejoice in all places of life.

the deeper your thanks, 
the greater your joy.

ps. i'm obviously reading 1,000 gifts right now. great book.

just another day..

i'm learning so many things right now.

one being that god really does give us a new measure of faith to walk through the next task he's asking of us.

we can't lean on our past experiences. trusting him is always a leap of faith.

i'm learning that obedience can sometimes mean just waiting.

a crisis of belief can almost make you insane sometimes...

it's so easy to lose focus & start looking at how impossible the whole situation seems,

because god often calls us to do things that are just plain impossible for us.

it's so easy to start to try & fix things yourself or accomplish things the only way you know how 

even though you know you can't.

it's so easy to look to others to try & fix it, too.

i have done all of these things. 

i was in church on sunday, my mind racing with all the factors 

& just realizing how tired i was of thinking.

so many thoughts.

it hit me. i know god was telling me,

    lift your focus to me.

    stop looking around you, to your circumstances or the impossibilities you see around you.

    look at me. i'm where your help comes from. i am able.

i mean really. he made the heavens & earth. he knows me inside & out.

he sees where i am on my journey of following him in life 

& he is walking me through it.

no one is able to accomplish what he is able to accomplish. 

no one is able to do what he can do.

no one can comfort me the way he can.

& no one can love me like he can.

so i guess this is just another day of learning to trust him.

trusting him when life seems unsure or i've grown impatient.

learning to trust that he is a god who delights in impossibilities.

this is another day of choosing to say, "yes, god" 

& knowing that however things turn out, 

he is still the god i know, i will still thank him in all things & i will still follow him.

i lift my eyes to the hills,

is that where my help comes from?

my help comes from the lord,

maker of heaven & earth.

ps 121

things that cost $25: number 2

ONE fast food meal for a whole family = $25.

most of you know that i recently returned home from India with YWAM &
saw God work in incredible ways while i was gone. (you can read all about it on here.)
so i applied to be on staff & be of small part of seeing other students lives changed,
& people come to know him in other countries.

right now i'm in the process of raising support to be on staff for YWAM for 2 years.

i am in need of $500 a month by the end of december.

if only 20 people/families decide to donate $25 a month, i will be fully funded!

while in Montana, i will be staffing Discipleship Training Schools. which means: 

living life with students, being a small group leader, 

& planning/leading outreaches to other countries 

(among other things i'll figure out when i get there:)).

i believe God's placed this opportunity before me & i can't wait to start serving!

please pray & see if God might have you become one of my supporters... 

the gospel will go out in the nations 

& student's lives will be radically changed as they meet with God during these schools.

if you don't sense God telling you to support me financially 

or just can't afford $25 a month or any money at all, i covet your prayers. 

they are so important & valuable, & i'm so grateful for them.

if you feel God leading you to give, let me know,

i can hook you up with information. :)

i love you guys.

thanks for reading.

you bless me.

want

Current evangelicalism has laid the altar & divided the sacrifice into parts, but now seems satisfied to count the stones & rearrange the pieces with never a care that there is not a sign of fire upon the top of lofty Carmel. But God be thanked that there a few who care. They are those who, while they love the altar & delight in sacrifice, are yet unable to reconcile themselves to the continued absence of fire. They desire God above all. They are athirst to taste for themselves the "piercing sweetness" of the love of Christ.  AW Tozer (The Pursuit of God)

Lord, i want You.

things that cost $25: number 1

5 souped up coffees from starbucks = $25.

i'm in the process of fundraising to be on staff for YWAM for the next 2 years.

if only 20 people/familes choose to donate $25 a month for 2 years... 

not only will i be fully funded,

but students will be discipled, 

and people in other nations will have an opportunity to hear the gospel.

if you feel led to give, let me know, i can hook you up with all the information.

(donations are tax-deductible.)

i love you guys.

thanks for your support through your friendship, your prayer, and your finances.

be blessed!

god sized task.

hello loves.

so the plan was originally for me to move to be on staff for YWAM in January & serve in the kitchen or something for my first 3 months & then begin staffing schools & planning outreaches in April....

but...

last night i received an email asking me to start staffing as soon as possible (which at this point is still in late December/early January) and start preparing everything for outreach. so i'll be staffing schools, leading small groups, planning outreach, praying, living with students, and so many more things i won't know until i get there... as soon as i get there.

whoa! so last night, i'm going to bed, so excited and so full of anticipation, knowing that i have ZERO money for support... but also knowing God is totally able. it's going to be an incredible journey seeing Him work this out.

i've reached the point where i realize there is nothing in my own strength, no amount of work, no job, no amount of saving (at this point)... NOTHING i can do to come up with $500/mo to support myself, let alone buy a ticket to get there! hahaha!!

so all i can really do right now is keep asking Him to provide & trust that He knows what He's doing! thankfully, i also have so many times in my life i can look back at & say "God was faithful then." & i believe that if He wants me there in January, He will be faithful to that. this whole thing is not about me... it's His deal now, i'm such a small part of it. the money is on Him, He's the only one who can prepare my heart, and He's the only one who will be able to accomplish anything for His kingdom in the next 2 years.

God is able.

$500 a month is nothing to Him.

even if it seems like a million to me right now.

i'm trusting him.

love is the burden that will carry me back home...

 i love this stuff.