A little more than a year ago my daughter Katie & her friend Jessica Barnes felt that they were being called to go on a mission trip to New Day. With a heavy parent heart I really did not want my 18 year old & her 17 year old friend traveling half way across the world by themselves. I told Katie that she needed an adult chaperon to go with them. I told her if she didn't have someone who could go with them that I would go. For reasons beyond her control Jessica was not able to go on the trip which just left Katie & I. Without any other people able to go we started our travel plans. We contacted the travel agent that our missionaries suggested & got our airfare quote...! Wow! The doubt started to creep in but God quickly pushed those doubts back & we started the fundraising. We began with support letters, and God provided above & beyond what I even thought to ask Him for. This has become a recurring theme throughout our planning!
Next we had a garage sale. I started to spread the word & lots of family & friends donated goods to the sale. I would say 90% of the profit from the garage sale came from someone else's items! We were able to wire transfer our money for our flights with a little money to spare.
Katie has also been saving her Christmas & Birthday money for 2 years now. I look forward to seeing how she will be rewarded for these small sacrifices!
As the new year approached the plans really started to take a back seat to life going on around us.
I decided instead of another garage sale that we would try t-shirt sales. How fun! Something for us to wear on our trip, something for other people to wear to remember to pray for us while we are gone, and maybe even take a few with us to hand out to Blu & Darbi!
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Which brings us to today! We turn in the t-shirt order forms tomorrow. Now all that is left is to pray that God would prepare us, those we will meet, and all those involved in our mission to follow God where He leads us.
Thank you for reading and following our story. This how we will keep in touch while we are away from home so check back again soon.
God has blessed us with amazing family, friends & a very generous church family!
THANK YOU!!!
Melody & Katie Hammond
How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news! Romans 10:15
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