Leadership

As many of you know,  I have been asked, along with my good friend Luis,  to lead the 14 of our DTS students on outreach in April and May to Costa Rica, and Jamaica.

As I have been praying and asking God to give me the wisdom I need and his heart on how to lead the students, he has been teaching and showing me so much.

I worked out the budget for the trip, and it was really way too high for a lot of them. The price was about 3,700.00 per student. We met with the leaders and we brainstormed on what we could do to get that price to come down. Just so you have some background on how it works with these schools, all of us staff are full-time non paid missionaries, we raise our own support for the cost of living and working here. As staff of DTS, we are committed to the whole 5 months of the school, and the leaders pray about who to have lead the outreach phase. Because of this, and the fact that it's not really a choice, the price of the staff leading the outreach is split among the students.

As we looked over the budget, there weren't any places we could make cuts. One of the leaders felt while praying that God would give Luis and I the answer to what we were to do with this, even if that meant changing location. As I prayed about it, I knew exactly what God was asking me to do, and to be honest, I was fighting in my flesh with it a bit. God was asking me to relieve the students of my costs, by raising the total amount of the outreach for my cost. Being that I already live by faith, it was a difficult thing to know he was asking me to step that up once again, and to get in the same line with my students and believe in faith alongside of them for the money we need.

As I was praying, I felt like Jesus was speaking to me about how he lead. He was God, but humbled himself and lived among us, served us, and ultimately laid his life down for us. He was asking me if I would do the same for my students, and get in line alongside of them, lead by example, and be the first to step out on the water. That is how my father wants me to lead.

As I brought this to my co-leader, he felt that God was asking him to have my back in this, and so he has decided to do the exact same thing. This brings the total cost down,  so that each of us need to raise $2,300.00


So I am writing this because I need you to prayerfully consider walking with me in this, getting into line with my students and I to step out on the water and believe that every penny of this will be raised in time! We need to buy plane tickets yesterday, we only have four weeks left before we leave for two months, and plane tickets are the biggest thing we need to buy right now. The cost of plane tickets are 1,400.00 as it stands right now.

That amount might scare some people, but there is power when many people come together, all that would take is 23 of my friends giving $100.00. Or if God is pressing on your heart to give more than that, please do! I am asking you to take my hand in this, and be a part of the amazing things that God wants to do in my life, my students' lives, and in Costa Rica and Jamaica, in the lives of those precious people in those countries.


When you give, you also share in our reward!!

God bless you :)