I MADE THE COMMITMENT
February 10
Today, I stepped out in faith and signed up to participate in a Go Trip to Guatemala through Crossroads Church.
This is the first time I have participated in a mission trip of any kind. I would not say that I am nervous, but I am feeling a bit of apprehension as to how I will react to the trip. I don’t know what to expect, but I am excited about the potential.
Each year in late winter, Crossroads Church starts promoting their Go Trips for that year. For several years in a row, I have been intrigued by the trips. I was interested, but I never considered the trips as a real possibility. I am involved as an adult leader with the Boy Scouts of America and am gone one to two weekends a month throughout the year and several weeklong trips during the summer. Being gone for yet another week or two was asking too much. This spring, however, my wife started expressing an interest in attending a trip together. She teaches in a school with a large population of students from Guatemala, so she was drawn to this trip over the other locations that are offered. At the time we were discussing the possibility of attending the trip together, I had a major deadline at work in the June time frame. The project had some major difficulties that had to be addressed, difficulties that involved a significant amount of time and energy to resolve. I had doubts that I was going to be able to find a workable solution that met requirements in the available time frame. In addition to that, there was pressure to move the deadline into the May timeframe. It would have not gone over well for me to be gone for a week in the time leading up to the deadline. As a result, in late January my wife signed up for the trip without me, and I was going to wait to see how the work progressed to see if I could attend the trip as well. I was not optimistic that I would have been able to go.
Over the course of several weeks, however, several solutions to the problems I was facing in my project at work unexpectedly fell into place. In addition, the requirements for my project were significantly reduced, such that by mid-February, the project was complete and accepted by the customer. This freed me up to be able to attend the trip. It was amazing to see how God worked to make this trip possible.
This is the first time I have participated in a mission trip of any kind. I would not say that I am nervous, but I am feeling a bit of apprehension as to how I will react to the trip. I don’t know what to expect, but I am excited about the potential.
Each year in late winter, Crossroads Church starts promoting their Go Trips for that year. For several years in a row, I have been intrigued by the trips. I was interested, but I never considered the trips as a real possibility. I am involved as an adult leader with the Boy Scouts of America and am gone one to two weekends a month throughout the year and several weeklong trips during the summer. Being gone for yet another week or two was asking too much. This spring, however, my wife started expressing an interest in attending a trip together. She teaches in a school with a large population of students from Guatemala, so she was drawn to this trip over the other locations that are offered. At the time we were discussing the possibility of attending the trip together, I had a major deadline at work in the June time frame. The project had some major difficulties that had to be addressed, difficulties that involved a significant amount of time and energy to resolve. I had doubts that I was going to be able to find a workable solution that met requirements in the available time frame. In addition to that, there was pressure to move the deadline into the May timeframe. It would have not gone over well for me to be gone for a week in the time leading up to the deadline. As a result, in late January my wife signed up for the trip without me, and I was going to wait to see how the work progressed to see if I could attend the trip as well. I was not optimistic that I would have been able to go.
Over the course of several weeks, however, several solutions to the problems I was facing in my project at work unexpectedly fell into place. In addition, the requirements for my project were significantly reduced, such that by mid-February, the project was complete and accepted by the customer. This freed me up to be able to attend the trip. It was amazing to see how God worked to make this trip possible.