The time has come!

Hello!


I wanted to give you all a quick update as I am preparing to leave! As of yesterday I officially have my ticket! God has been so faithful and continues to be as I prepare to move overseas.
Here is what my schedule for the next week looks like:

July 24-30 - Packing/Spending time with friends and family

July 25 - Last Sunday at Brooks Evangelical Free Church



July 30 - 9:30PM Flight leaves from Calgary to London arriving on July 31 at 1:25 pm

July 31 - 7:20PM Flight leaves from London to Basel, Switzerland arriving at 9:55PM



Please pray that I would finish well. I want God to be glorified in ALL that I do, whether that is in packing, saying goodbyes or serving overseas.

Also, please pray that the travelling would go well and that there would be no complications with baggage and such.



Thank you all so much for your prayers and support and I look forward to keeping in touch with you all as I start this new journey in Germany!!



Blessings on you,



Brittany

Support Update!

I wanted to write a quick update and let you know how my support is coming along...

Today I recieved my weekly reports! It was amazing! A few days ago I was at 43% and today I am at 69%! Praise the LORD!

I still need another 11% to be able to buy my plane ticket but we are getting there! Thank you all for your prayers and support! They truly do make a difference!

69%  = $1492/month
31% Still Needed = $675/month
100% = $2167/month

While I'm waiting...

I will move ahead, bold and confident
Taking every step in obedience
While I'm waiting
I will serve You
While I'm waiting
I will worship
While I'm waiting
I will not faint
I'll be running the race
Even while I wait

-John Waller "While I am Waiting"

In my last post I wrote that I was currently sitting at 40% of my support. Today I am at 43% with what has been entered at TeachBeyond. Many have mentioned what they would like to give and with knowing some of those numbers I am at about 56%. My deadline to reach 80% in order for me to be able to buy my plane ticket is July 16, just a few days away.

I would encourage those of you who have already said you would like to support me to send in your forms. If you have any questions about them, or need help filling them out - send me an email at bmann@teachbeyond.org.

For those of you who have not yet thought about supporting me financially, I ask that you would pray about it. I am hoping and praying to be in Germany by August 1 to be the Front Office Secretary at Black Forest Academy. Please pray about helping send me!

God is doing great things in Germany and I can't wait to be a part of that!

"Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world - wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important - has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting is on the way out - but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity."

1 John 2:15-17 (The Message)

Cry in my heart...

As I sit in my hometown Starbucks I think about the next few weeks. It is only a few weeks before orientation at Black Forest Academy starts. I currently sit around 40% for support. In order for me to have a ticket to Germany I will need to be at 80%, at least. While the next few weeks will be spent in giving presentations and meeting with people - the next few weeks will be spent waiting, waiting on the Lord. I know that is not on my own that I will be able to go. It is not in my own strengths, abilities or in the people I know. It is ONLY by God.

While I know my deadline is August 1 to be in Germany, I am also learning that sometimes my timing isn't God's timing. This is hard.
 
 
The "title" of my post is from a Starfield song - "Cry in my heart"



Lyrics:
There's a cry in my heart
For Your glory to fall
For Your presence to fill up my senses
There's a yearning again
A thirst for discipline
A hunger for things that are deeper


Could You take me beyond?
Could You carry me through?
If I open my heart?
Could I go there with You?
(For I've been here before
But I know there's still more
Oh, Lord, I need to know You)

For what do I have
If I don't have You, Jesus?
What in this life
Could mean any more?
You are my rock
You are my glory
You are the lifter
Of my head
Lifter of this head


I feel like this is my "life song" right now. There is this yearning and hunger in my life for something more. I want God to use me. I just need to constantly remind myself to not get caught up in my "to do list" but in glorifying God through this whole process.