Hi! I am so excited to share with you that after months of prayer and seeking God’s will for this ministry we are moving forward. I will be perfectly honest with you, I have struggled in wanting to make sure that this is God’s will and not just another thing to do. It is so important to me to honor God and not do things that He isn’t ordaining. Sometimes we get caught up in serving for the wrong reasons and I did not want Isaiah’s Call to be that! Isaiah’s Call came to me after a time of prayer and through two different things that happened to me to prompt me to exactly this. Other things came up in life and I moved churches and then started worrying that I was doing something outside of the church and how can that be right or useful and so forth. I battled in my own head and I battled with the Lord. Of course He won and I am thankful for that. I was worried that others would think that I was out of line doing something outside of our church family which I love and am excited about serving with. I worried that I couldn’t do this whole thing, even though missions is a passion of mine and leadership is a gift that God instilled in me. I worried that no one would want to be part of it once I agreed to do the mission trip and I would let the people we were going to serve down. You see that right ? Worry, worry, worry! The Bible clearly tells us to NOT worry. So that was a good sign that I was not where I needed to be and so I fasted and asked the Lord to give me His guidance and direction. I spent my day of fasting asking for him to not let me move to the right or left out of his will but to give me the wisdom to see his path and here we are! It is with nervous, excitement- a jittering of my spirit that I announce that we are moving forward. 1 John 5:14 “this is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us-whatever we ask-we know that we will have what we asked of him”. What I have asked of him is that He would take this ministry- this idea that I believe he has impressed upon my heart and make it exactly what He desires it to be. I ask that you continue to pray as we plan. Pray for your part in it. Will you participate? Will you be a prayer partner with us? Will you donate funds to make it happen? Will you be part of the training team? Will you just simply share this mission with others? I also ask that you pray a hedge of protection around us all.  I pray that you would pray for God’s will to lead us and that every detail we need to come together to come together in His perfect timing and will. Applications will soon be posted!! I am so excited!

Here I am, send me!

Marta