*Update:* My passport is now awaiting its various visas in order to get into South Africa, Swaziland, and Mozambique. This doesn’t mean, however, that the trip is totally paid for… I still need your help to raise the money to pay for this entire trip! Please, continue to read below.

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As many of you know, but I’m a missionary with “BCM International”:http://www.bcmintl.org, an international missions organization with over 700 missionaries around the world reaching children and developing churches (with mostly indigenous leaders). My specific role within BCM is that of Media Producer, overseeing the entire organization’s web, print, video, and other media efforts on a global front. Every now and again, I’m afforded the opportunity to go on a trip to see our mission work in the far reaches of the globe. I have about four such opportunities coming up, and our president wishes for me to go so that I may document our ministries in these regions.

My first potential trip is actually coming up very quick in March. This will be to South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. We’ll be participating in a missions conference in the area, with about 5,000 - 10,000 missionaries from around the region attending. This would be a great opportunity to document BCM’s ministry in the region! *The cost for this trip will be around $2,000*.

The second trip would be around June to the southeast Asia region. I don’t have many details for this trip yet, but it too will be a great opportunity to document our ministry there.

The third trip will be to southern Europe in July. Again, I don’t have too many details about this one right now either.

The fourth trip will be to our annual European Conference in Ustroń, Poland, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Kraków near the Czech Republic border. This conference will be held in October, and hopefully I’ll still be with BCM at this time.

As a poor missionary (I know, that’s such a cliché) I don’t have the funds readily available to go on such trips. To get to the point, my prayer request is that, *if it be God’s will that I go, the finances will be made available*. If you’d please pray with me that God’s will be done, I would very much appreciate it. If God leads you to give, you can head over to “BCM’s online donation form”:http://www.bcmintl.org/pages/donate/donate.php and give there, noting my name on the form.

I really appreciate you taking the time to read all this, and especially your prayers on this matter.

iSync, the application I use to sync between my phone and computer, decided to erase everyone in my phone book. Thanks, Apple.

So here’s an interesting story about a victim of Hurricane Andrew (which struck 15 years ago) FINALLY getting her power back after all this time. Go read the story on the CBS4 website.

Stuffy head, runny nose, sore-ish throat, aching joints… sound like the start of a GREAT 6-day weekend (Wednesday - Monday).