We have enough!

   Hello everyone!! It's been a while since I've sent out a real update! Things have been so busy around here and will stay that way until the day that I leave for outreach. And speaking of outreach I am going!! You guys God preformed a miracle and provided for me to get the remainder of my funds! One day I needed $3,500 and then by Monday it went down a couple thousand! God is amazing!! As of this morning God provided the rest!
   A beautiful friend of mine for Switzerland shared some scripture with me when I was in the middle of trying to figure how to come up with the rest of the money and it became a prayer for me. I am so excited to be able to share it with you. It is from Exodus 36:3-6. It says, "Moses gave them the materials donated by the people of Israel as sacred offerings for the completion of the sanctuary. But the people continued to bring additional gifts each morning. Finally the craftsmen who were working on the sanctuary left their work. They went to Moses and reported, "The people have given more than enough materials to complete the job the Lord has commanded us to do!" So Moses gave the command, and this message was sent throughout the camp: "Men and women, don't prepare any more gifts for the sanctuary. We have enough!" So the people stopped bringing their sacred offerings. Their contributions were more than enough to complete the whole project"
   My amazing church family I can say "We have enough!" Praise the Lord! You all gave selfishly and I now have enough to do what God has commanded me to do.  Words can't express how grateful I am! You are all a part of this trip and I can't wait to share with you all that God has done through US!
   Now on to just some highlights from the last few weeks.  Ok so two weeks ago our speaker was John Bills. He is probably my favorite speaker from the whole DTS! He spoke on the Father Heart of God. The whole week was amazing, but on the first day God brought up some things from my past that I realized had set up a barrier in my life and had been keeping me from truly knowing the heart of God. These things from my past were events that were out of my control, but had scared me deeply. I was on emotional shut down. I was broken, but it had become more comfortable for me to stay in a place of negativity then to allow God in. I believed that I wasn't worthy of healing. I believed that all the things that had happened to me were my fault. But deep down inside I knew that these things were lies from Satan. So in an act of faith I got up in front of the class and began to tell Satan that I wasn't going to allow those lies to be in my life any longer. Before I knew it all of the guys in my class stood up and just surrounded me and held me and began to speak truth into my life. Through their shouts and all my tears I really began to get a picture of how God felt about me. For probably one of the first times in my life, I allowed Christ to truly speak to my heart. I realize now that I am worthy of healing and that He longs to speak to me! Tell you what guys if I came home now, this trip would have been worth it. What an amazing breakthrough! 
  This past week was a ruff one for me. Our speaker was an Amazing man name Alesandro. He is a Brazilian who is a missionary in Afghanistan! What an amazing man! On Monday he just shared story after story about how God has worked in his life. On Tuesday I missed class because I had to take care of getting my finances in. On Wednesday I was down in bed sick :( But I heard some amazing things about breakthroughs my classmates had! Praise the Lord for that! I think God was especially moving in the lives of the men in the class! Continue to be praying for these guys! They are some amazing men of God and the world needs more like them!
   Thursday was Thanksgiving! Oh what a ruff day! I was really homesick and physically sick on top of that. But my school leaders worked hard to make the day special for us! I am so grateful for them! We had a nice Thanksgiving meal and then spent the evening at their house playing games and fellowshiping. Friday we began set up for the 50th celebration! Our class alone moved and set up a couple thousand chairs and a few hundred tables. It was crazy! What is even crazier is that we did it in only a few hours! Oh man did my whole body hurt after that!
   This weekend was really nice! Myself and a few of my friends went to what the locals call Children's beach. We rented snorkeling gear for $5 and spent 2 hours floating around on our stomachs looking at coral reefs, tropical fish and sea turtles. So amazing!!! I wish everyone had a chance to do something like this! As I am sitting here I still feel like I am floating around in the water! I was so stinking excited and the whole time I was screaming under the water! Haha! Apparently I didn't breathe through the snorkel right because when I got out of the water I had a huge ring around my face from the goggles, which stayed there for the rest of the evening :)
   Well guys that about it for now. I am sure I will have lots of stories to share about the 50th celebration! There are a couple thousand missionaries from all over the world that are going to be here! It's going to be amazing!
   I love you all and miss you with all my heart! I am so grateful for each and everyone of you!

HELP!

Hey Friends and Family,
   So this is a urgent email! I need some help from you all. On the 24th I must have all of my money in for my trip to Mozambique and South Africa. If not I will not be able to go. As far a I know I still need $3,200. That's a lot of money and only a few days to come up with it. I believe that God has called me to these countries. While I am there I will be working in orphanages and ministering to people affected by HIV. I know that God wants to use me in amazing ways, but I have to get there first. So I am calling out to all of you and asking you to consider what you might be able to do to help me financially. When you support me you become my partner and everything I do while I am there you will be a part of. I know that God will provide and I am trusting that He will speak to each of you about what you are to do. Just take a moment to pray and ask God to give you an amount. Maybe $5, maybe $50, maybe $500.

  If you feel that God is leading you to support me please get the money into my home church Faith Family Ministries by Monday the 22nd. If you have any questions please find my mom or dad and they will be able to answer them for you. Or you can email me at fields.maggie@gmail.com Thanks! I can't wait to share with you all how God works this out!

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Faith + Hope + Love
Maggie

And this is my prayer in the battle
When triumph is still on it's way
I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ
So firm on His promise I'll stand

Is it really November?

Hey friends! Another week has gone by and I can hardly believe it. Time flies around here! I can't believe that it is November and that it is already snowing at home. This week our speaker was Faith Dutton and the topic was...relationship! Duh duh duh! lol Just kidding! It was a really great week. I have been blessed to go to a church and have a family that loved me enough to encourage me to have good relationships and to have good boundaries on dating, so a lot of what was said I have heard before, but it was nice to have a refresher course on it. It was also really awesome to see my new friends and classmates break free from some bad relationships! There was a lot of renewal going on.

   Once a week every student participates in a community outreach. For the past few weeks I have gone every Wednesday and sat across the street from a local planned parenthood and prayed. Wednesdays are the days that they do the abortions, so we would just go and sit quietly and pray. It was really ruff to sit there and know that at this very moment babies were being murdered! Myself and a dozen other students went to war for all the unborn lives. We were actually apart of the 40 days of prayer that the Crisis Pregnancy Center was putting on, but that ended last week and I had to choose a new outreach. There are several that I would have loved to have done. Ones that I could go and play with local kids and I would have had lots of fun and I would have been very comfortable. But God has been really challenging me to step out of my comfort zone. So I chose to do the Treasure Hunt outreach. Basically it is street evangelism. SCARY!! So last week since it was my first time doing this my friend and I decided that we were just going to walk around and just pray as we past by people. I was definitely not going to stop someone and try to talk to them. I told God that if He wanted me to talk to someone they were going to have to stop me. Haha. Well we hadn't walked for more then 10 minutes when this guy sitting on the curb called out to my friend and I. My first thought was "run"! :) But I said a quick prayer and turned back to talk to the guy. We talked with him for about an hour about his life and about God. It was so amazing!! So this week I am going to be more bold about it and we will see what happens! :)

Ok so here are some prayer request.

  1. Please be praying for my eye. I am not sure what is going on with it right now, but it is really red and feels like it is bruised. I haven't been able to go to the doctor yet because I am having some trouble figuring out my insurance. So please be praying that God will heal my eye or work everything out with my insurance so that I can go to the doctor. Also I haven't been able to wear my contacts because of my eye, so I haven't been able to see. So I have been dealing with headaches from it. So yeah I need lots of prayer.

   2. Please be praying for my outreach team! Pray that God will give us a passion for the people of Mozambique and South Africa! Pray that God will give our leaders Brandon and Paul wisdom and discernment as they plan our trip.

   3. Be praying for my finances! I had some money come in last week and I now need $3,000. Be praying for God's provision and my patience! :)

Ok well that's all for now. I love you all so much!!!

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Faith + Hope + Love
Maggie