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