The results of prayer

I have an apartment! For those of you who don't know, this has been a prayer request for the past few months. Most of the apartments in Kandern cost about 100-150 € per month more than I had originally anticipated. However, I was just made aware of an affordable, convienient, and spacious (for this price range) basement apartment only a 15 minute bike ride from the school. This is an exciting answer to prayer. Thank you for your prayers, even if you didn't know about this specific request. Please continue to pray that I will reach 100% support before August.

The past month has probably been the busiest since my last semester at Wheaton, over a year ago. I have a commitment almost every night, and work all day, plus the other nights in the week. Here's a typical week: Ethics of Education class, which I am auditing at Wheaton, on Monday, Tuesday I will either babysit or cook dinner for the family, Wednesday, maybe cook dinner and help out with youth group at my church, Thursday I have small group. Friday and weekend nights can have a variety of activities, including but not limited to, Senior banquet, babysitting, improv shows, movies with friends, getting sick and going to bed early. It's been pretty crazy here lately. I also just started tutoring a woman from Iraq in her English, so that she can get a job soon!

Senior Banquet

Basically, through all this busyness, I've been learning what's really important to me. When I realized how many activities I had signed myself up for, I really thought I should drop something. Who has enough time in their week for all of this? I do. If I wasn't doing all of these things, you know what I would be doing? Watching netflix in my room. That's not a good use of my time when I could be preparing myself for ministry. So that's exactly what I'm going to do! I found I couldn't choose something to drop, because I felt that each one was preparatory in a different, yet very important way. So, I kept everything, and my weeks have been crazy, but fulfilling. Exhausting, and yet productive.

For me, busyness means staying involved in what God is doing. I can stop being busy later. For now, I choose to work hard for the Lord!

"Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ." Colossians 3:23-24

Support Update: 70% Praise the Lord! Thank you all for your prayers. Still in need of about $700 per month to get me to BFA. Please contact me if you want to be a part of what God is doing at BFA.