I have the best news!

  Yesterday was a horrible day for me. After church, the Brazil Team got together for our monthly meeting. We grow closer together as a team every time- and this time there was a lot of prayer.
  Matt Parker, our youth pastor, had found some great priced airline tickets a couple of months ago. The church agreed to pay for them as long as everyone paid them back with part of their support. You know, typical youth missions trip stuff.
  But they found out about three weeks ago that the travel agency Matt had bought the tickets from was a forgery. There were no such tickets, no such travel agent- and all that money had disappeared.
  After looking frantically for other tickets that would cost the same price and leave at the same time on the same flight, Matt found them- on this past Saturday night!  
 While that was an awesome miracle that the Brazil Team was totally excited about, we were in major crunch time. All of us had to have a thousand dollars by today at ten a.m., or we couldn't go. Basically we had to buy our own tickets, instead of the church doing it and us paying them back eventually.

 

  I didn't have one thousand dollars. As a matter of fact, I was short $900.0. There was just no way I could raise that much money in eight hours!  
  Well, God proved me wrong.

  Matt and I prayed at youth group last night, praying that God’s will be done and asking that he would perform a miracle so I could go. After we finished praying, his cell phone rang and he left to talk to the person on the other line. I thought nothing of it. He always talks on his phone, haha.
   I went home pretty depressed. I prayed again with Mom and Dad, then went to bed and slept fitfully. I really, really, REALLY felt like I was being called to go- why was God shutting the door?

 

  This morning, Mom and I decided to call my Gran and Granddad to let them know that I wasn't going. I didn't want them to send a check and have it not go towards me, but into the “pot“ so to speak. We were going to call the others as well when Gran called back.   
  They were willing to give me $750.00 if I could come up with the rest.

 

  I called Matt all in a frenzy, and found out that someone had given me $100.00 more. With the $100.00 I already had, and the $750.00, I only had to come up with $50.00. We looked up my bank account- and I have exactly enough!! My grandparents agreed to send the check overnight. I almost cried. I was going to Brazil! 

 

  There was one problem though- Matt had to have the money today!

 

  Here’s another total God thing. The person who had called him last night after we finished praying? Yeah. He donated a thousand dollars to the cause- exactly enough to cover my ticket until the $750.00 got there! Isn't that AWESOME!?  
 

  It's so true- God pulls through at the very last second. All I had to do was trust. :)

 

So I just wanted to share that with you. :D

 

 JESUS FREAKING ROCKS!!! haha

 

 ~Allie~