Hey everyone,
Thanks for taking interest in me and the trip Im taking. I look forward to sending updates to you all. I truly appreciate all the prayers (future and present) and funding any of you have or will be sending my way. Thank you.
First, God has blessed me with all the funds I needed last sunday, amazing! He took care of all the funding for the trip (~$4000), all the bills in the states, and all the traveling needed. So kudos, God. So my physical needs were all met, again I thank you guys for any help with that.
Second, prayer needs. Besides the obvious (safety), pray that God uses me and the rest of the team as His instruments to bring him glory, to whatever ends that may be. That we may have energy everyday to do what needs to be done, and to be content with what each day brings. Pray that we will rely on Him alone, and to then lean on eachother for anything that comes up. Pray that the people we will be coming in contact with, and that God softens their heart as we do our best to be a testimony of Love. Pray that we will leave all our expectations and comforts we normally have behind and to live a day at a time, enjoying the small things and knowing that our every action has consequences. Pray that we don't get distracted with any temptations, small things, spiritual warfare, lack of technology, discomforts, or homesickness.
I think thats about it for prayer requests. So yeah thats a lot, but still, I appreciate the prayers.
Lastly, THIS IS IMPORTANT! I have decided to have all my future updates on a blog. I may or may not update in any other way, so rely on this. There is a way to subscribe (the button that says "subscribe"), but there may be other things to that. Im not totally sure on that. But if you want to check back periodically, there might be some new news or maybe a few pics up, that just depends on the internet there. I may send out emails that tell you to check the site. Ill do my best to do that. Also, Ill try to update my status on facebook (add me if you haven't yet, I have to accept your friendship, and I leave monday, so do that asap) to send links to the blog. Sooo, your PRIMARY source of news will be on the BLOG. Here is the site address...
http://mattmurnan.blogspot.com/
I thank you guys again so much for everything. I know God is gonna be awesome in all this, and blessings be on each of you. Keep striving toward the Creator!
Love in Christ,
Matt Murnan
