"Thank you for submitting your application for our upcoming December 2009 India Team. We are grateful for the time and effort that you put into filling it out. Our India Leadership Team will be meeting this week to pray and plan for our interview with you. You will recieve a phone call later this week with a couple of interview times, please respond promptly as we have many applicants to meet with.
India is an amazing place and our partnership with Harvest India is powerful. We look forward to seeing who God puts together to GO with us this winter. Please pray for Suresh and Christina Kumar and the entire Harvest India family. For more information about Harvest India, please log onto www.harvestindia.org
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” Matthew 7-7-11
Have a wonderful weekend!
Craig & Heather Motichko and The India Leadership Team
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as i've said many times before in my life, if god would send me anywhere i would be ecstatic. this is totally true still. just thinking about india - the team building, the plane ride, the adventure, the learning, the helping, the community, not to mention the culture, my heart seriously stops beating. god has (much to my dismay at the time) put travels and missions aside for the past 2 years. I have tried (notice the capitalized, bold i) to go on a mission trip about 4 times during this time. well 4 times of actually trying to get the ball rolling, probably 20 times of inquiries and time spent searching for somewhere to go, infinite. well, each time fell through. the biggest one was my spain idea. i had the idea of studying abroad spring 09 semester in spain. i found this christian organization that is based in sevilla, spain and i was going to figure out how to lay down 16,000 dollars to go to school there for 3 1/2 months. i know, genious right? everything was perfect, it was a christian organization so i wouldnt be misdirected by drinking or parties, i would be surrounded by everything that was good, and i would get to fulfill my dream of studying abroad. i had every intention of going. within 2 weeks, i had applied for my passport and my student visa. i sent my transcripts to the organization. i went to the finance counselors. i went to the study abroad offices. i paid the application fee. anyone catching the drift of all the i's? this entire thing was me trying to be god and direct my paths the way i thought they should be going. amazingly enough, god was allowing all of this to happen and was preparing to use the whole thing to teach me something huge. so, the climax of my 'I' adventure was when my 2nd set of transcrips got lost in the mail a day before the deadline, and magically appeared a day after the deadline. the lady called me and said we could waive this and allow you to keep your application, but things are looking dim financially yadayadayada. so spain and all its glory was over. a whole month of stressfully running around myself getting in applications, sending checks, figuring out which spanish classes would transfer, looking at plane tickets, etc... well, after it was over, i put on my smile and when people asked me about it i explained the deal with my transcripts and went on. it was i think about 2 weeks later when i finally heard god say, "Sara." i was on my way to work and i get to my car to find the battery dead. just one more thing that i couldn't control and it threw me off the edge so hard that i just started bawling. i sat in my truck crying for a long time. everything that i'd been trying to take on by myself just came out: i had been having a seriously tough time with jenny and her attitude. mady was annoying the crap out of me. jake's friendship was still dwindling away. and then spain fell through. that was the beginning of a crazy lesson/battle with god. i hated everything and i didnt know how to fix any of it. finallllllllllly, god showed me that spain was a decoy. i wanted to pretend that everything was fine and my method for being fine was running away from things. i didnt want to deal with jenny so i covered up my unwillingness to confront her with an adventure to spain. i do that with many things in my life. when i don't know how or want to deal with something, i hide it away and cover it over with nice christian things. then god usually takes the coverings off without me knowing it and i trip on the mess and i'm mad and hurt. it took me, this time, an entire school year plus a summer to realize that god kept me here to deal with life. he stopped me from running away from things and taught me how to deal with them. india, although it is not finalized yet, is not for me. I did nothing to apply aside from sending my application in and praying. I did not plan it. I did not search it out. I did not beg for it. one night at church, Suresh came to speak a bit on india, applications were in the lobby, i prayed and even forgot about it for a while, it came up again, i prayed and now it is in process. i have no money nor do i have worries. this is gods doing not mine so i know he will keep moving my hands and feet where he knows i will learn and spread him more. Missions are not only in other countries, away from the things i am used to. missions are under my feet and in front of my eyes in every day i live.
as i've said many times before in my life, if god would send me anywhere i would be ecstatic. this is totally true still. just thinking about india - the team building, the plane ride, the adventure, the learning, the helping, the community, not to mention the culture, my heart seriously stops beating. god has (much to my dismay at the time) put travels and missions aside for the past 2 years. I have tried (notice the capitalized, bold i) to go on a mission trip about 4 times during this time. well 4 times of actually trying to get the ball rolling, probably 20 times of inquiries and time spent searching for somewhere to go, infinite. well, each time fell through. the biggest one was my spain idea. i had the idea of studying abroad spring 09 semester in spain. i found this christian organization that is based in sevilla, spain and i was going to figure out how to lay down 16,000 dollars to go to school there for 3 1/2 months. i know, genious right? everything was perfect, it was a christian organization so i wouldnt be misdirected by drinking or parties, i would be surrounded by everything that was good, and i would get to fulfill my dream of studying abroad. i had every intention of going. within 2 weeks, i had applied for my passport and my student visa. i sent my transcripts to the organization. i went to the finance counselors. i went to the study abroad offices. i paid the application fee. anyone catching the drift of all the i's? this entire thing was me trying to be god and direct my paths the way i thought they should be going. amazingly enough, god was allowing all of this to happen and was preparing to use the whole thing to teach me something huge. so, the climax of my 'I' adventure was when my 2nd set of transcrips got lost in the mail a day before the deadline, and magically appeared a day after the deadline. the lady called me and said we could waive this and allow you to keep your application, but things are looking dim financially yadayadayada. so spain and all its glory was over. a whole month of stressfully running around myself getting in applications, sending checks, figuring out which spanish classes would transfer, looking at plane tickets, etc... well, after it was over, i put on my smile and when people asked me about it i explained the deal with my transcripts and went on. it was i think about 2 weeks later when i finally heard god say, "Sara." i was on my way to work and i get to my car to find the battery dead. just one more thing that i couldn't control and it threw me off the edge so hard that i just started bawling. i sat in my truck crying for a long time. everything that i'd been trying to take on by myself just came out: i had been having a seriously tough time with jenny and her attitude. mady was annoying the crap out of me. jake's friendship was still dwindling away. and then spain fell through. that was the beginning of a crazy lesson/battle with god. i hated everything and i didnt know how to fix any of it. finallllllllllly, god showed me that spain was a decoy. i wanted to pretend that everything was fine and my method for being fine was running away from things. i didnt want to deal with jenny so i covered up my unwillingness to confront her with an adventure to spain. i do that with many things in my life. when i don't know how or want to deal with something, i hide it away and cover it over with nice christian things. then god usually takes the coverings off without me knowing it and i trip on the mess and i'm mad and hurt. it took me, this time, an entire school year plus a summer to realize that god kept me here to deal with life. he stopped me from running away from things and taught me how to deal with them. india, although it is not finalized yet, is not for me. I did nothing to apply aside from sending my application in and praying. I did not plan it. I did not search it out. I did not beg for it. one night at church, Suresh came to speak a bit on india, applications were in the lobby, i prayed and even forgot about it for a while, it came up again, i prayed and now it is in process. i have no money nor do i have worries. this is gods doing not mine so i know he will keep moving my hands and feet where he knows i will learn and spread him more. Missions are not only in other countries, away from the things i am used to. missions are under my feet and in front of my eyes in every day i live.
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