Tonight, I walked into a music practice for the evening service at church, to be handed an envelope containing money for putting towards the South Africa trip from an anonymous donor.
I'm truly touched and overwhelmed by the generosity of these people. Wow.
God is faithful. He really does provide.
I'm into my overdraft for the first time in months and still have to pay for my insurance, passport, and 2 payments to the travel agents this week.
I've been more worried than I've let on to most people. I was getting to the point where I my wages would just be bringing me back into 'the black' for a week, as April has been such an expensive month.
In March I had the trip to Watford, my car's MOT & road tax.
In April I've had 4 birthdays (2 best friends, 1 godson, 1 brother), paid for the flights which were more expensive than expected, paying for the whole trip as I found out my deposit cheque hadn't been cashed like I previously thought - in the same month my work hours were reduced so I got less pay at the end of March.
I've not felt right about doing any 'fundraising' because I'm only going for 2 weeks. And I know there is so much that people could give to. And I've been saving a lot too, by making so-called 'sacrifices' like moving into my Mum's house (not only is rent AMAZING, sometimes she makes me tea!!), stopping wearing contact lenses, stopping buying things I don't really need like CDs, clothes, shoes and so on.
But it's not been enough when I only do part-time paid work.
Last year, I spoke to my pastor's wife about how I felt I was to go to South Africa, but that I was nervous about how I could possibly fund it. She said to me then, "You know if God wants you to go, He will provide".
She was totally right.
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