Outreach....Here I come!

The week of Christmas break has come and gone, tomorrow morning I leave the home I love and head off to Texas one last time (at least in the near future). For some reason this time seems worse than it was at Thanksgiving. I think it might have something to do with the fact that everyone else is still on break and New Year's...it will be weird to not spend New Year's will my friends like I have every year since High School. Don't get me wrong I am so excited to go to Houston and then off to Uganda...but I just wish we could be home for one more week. The week with family and friends and youth group kids has been wonderful, I've loved every minute!

• Helping Mom make the ever so famous Monster Cookies
• Laying around and watching Friends with my best friend
• IHOP Christmas brunch with the 2 Besties!
• Caroling with my students!
• Going to look at Christmas lights in Winding Brook
• Taco Bell run (only once...sad story...and no milk shake dates?!)
  
• Having my small group girls over and just catching up on life
• Late nights with the brothers
• Playing with my 2 favorite little girls in the whole wide world!!!
• Christmas Eve Service (my favorite service of the whole year)
• The Finneran side Christmas (even if it was weird that my sister and fam couldn't make it)
• Dutch Blitz action with good friends (I won!)
• Scum with the family
• Just being home!!!

I need to wrap this up pretty quickly because I still have some laundry to get done and lots of packing to do, but I wanted to give you a quick run down of my outreach so that you all can keep my team and I in your prayers!

• December 28th - My friend Mel and I will drive the 17 hour trip down to Texas - pray for good weather and safe travels!
• December 30th - We drive to Houston for our stateside outreach (I will be driving one of the 15 passenger vans! )
• December 30th - January 11th - we will be in Houston doing street ministry - some hurricane relief, running several street-church services, some youth services, street evangelism - which will include reaching out to several drag queens, serving in soup kitchens and much more!
  
• January 11th - after an evening service we will be driving back to Tyler so pray for good weather and alertness!
• January 12th - on base for the day...recouping...doing laundry if necessary...packing up for Uganda
• January 13th - fly out of Dallas and head to Uganda! (I believe we only switch planes once in Amsterdam)
• January 14th - February 13th - In Uganda, through that month we will be in 3 different cities - Jinja, Soroti, and Arua - we will be working in several orphanages, going into some indigenous tribes, street evangelism, church services, prayer walks, the other girls and I may work with some women coming out of prostitution, and whatever else the Lord asks of us!
  
• February 14th - fly back into the US!
• February 15th -22nd we will be recooping and debreifing in Texas. We will all share about our experiences in the evening service on the base.
  
• February 23rd - I will be coming home!!!
  

Hopefully that helps you as you continue to pray for me, your prayers are much appreciated!!

Before we left for Christmas break I was still about a thousand dollars short of my amount needed for outreach. I am not stressing about this, becuase I know that my God is faithful! If you still want to donate to my outreach here is a link that you can print off the form:
http://www.ywamtyler.org/donate/mailform.htm
or you can donate by phone: (903) 882- 5591 ext. 5303 or 5309

Thanks for your overwhelming love and support as I embarked upon this jorney!! I can't wait to tell you all the millions of stories and show you pictures of what God did on our outreach!