I just want to take a minute and tell everyone what happened before the weekend!
...So, wednesday night comes... Landon and I are calling people and sending e-mails trying to raise support so that we can at least stay until December to finish out our lecture phase of our DTS. So far, the teachings we have been getting and the counseling we have received from the staff here has really prepared our hearts for serving the nations and loving each other more. As a newly married couple, I have found that this place is probably one of the best places to receive marital counseling and to grow more and more in Lord together as a couple. To sum it all up- we just weren't ready to go home. Without all our tuition in they were going to have to put us on a plane over the weekend back home to Nashville, but we just knew God had called us here for this time and that somehow- someway we were going to get all of our tuition in on time.
Thursday morning comes and we feel confident. We needed to raise over $3,500 and with only a few precious hours left to do so... then, our leader came up to us before class and asked our permission to put the amount we owed on a white board for the class to see... And we said "yes, that would be ok." Before our leader brought out the white board he gave our class a quick testimony of the father heart of God, and how to give is to be like Jesus and its making way for Him to work through us- It was a really great message. Then he asked us all to pray about how the Lord would have us give to one another and he brought the white board out with not only our name and amount on it but three other people's names and amounts as well. Landon and I started praying, I felt like the Lord wanted us to give so I asked him "what and whom?" then Landon leans over to me and told answered my question. We only had $40 cash on us and we felt like we should give that to a fellow classmate. After only a minute or two of our names being on the board, Landon walks back to sit next to me, and the next thing I know I look up to see how much we owe and to my astonishment! Our names are GONE! They weren't on the board ANYMORE!
All I could do was cry! Someone- everyone, had given to our debt and it was paid for! Landon and I were so amazed! All we could do was cry and praise God! This was such a huge sign for us that God REALLY did call us here for this season and is going to provide for our every need in our every time of troubles! He is so faithful to me and is such a good Dad.
The next day Landon and I walked into class so happy and abounding with joy in the Lord. Then, one of the staff members says that they needed to talk to us... we were a little unsure at first... What could have gone wrong? Then, she whips out the finance report and looks up at us. Then she says, "not only was your tuition completely paid for, you only have $7,264 left to raise for your entire outreach. People over gave and you already have one of your plane tickets to go to China paid for!" Landon and I started to cry again! This was just SO GOD!!! And He was telling us that not only does He want us to stay on for this lecture phase, but He also wants us to complete our DTS and GO to China. He is SO GOOD!
I just wanted to take this time to thank everyone who has given or is giving to our mission trip. We really couldn't be more grateful! God is so good! He has given us the desire of our hearts- to be parents! And is calling us out into the nations to bring His greatest news~ The King is alive and He loves the people of this world- no matter who you are:)
A Warrior for the King,
Bekah and Landon McCall
Monday, October 29, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Westward Bound
Dear Friends,
It has been a wild 3-5 weeks for me and Landon. Packing up and moving our family across the pacific ocean because of a word we heard from the Lord has not been easy... but I don't remember God promising me or Landon that it would be when He asked us to do it. I also haven't heard the version of the story of when God spoke to Abraham and said, "Hey Abraham, move your family on foot across a desert to a destination I will show you years from now, oh and hey! Don't worry- It'll be easy." He asked us, we heard, we listened, and obeyed. I think that is all He requires of us isn't it? To be listening for Him and to obey Him when we do hear Him. I have been so encouraged by everyone, telling me how faithfully I have been following the Lord in what He has asked me to do... But the truth is- I am deathly afraid. ALL my hope is in Him and His quest to lead my life. He tells me to have faith and to lay all my burdens down but I sometimes find myself not letting go of my burdens because I want to have responsibility and a say about what happens in my life.
God comes to me in these moments and reminds me... You gave me your life when you were 5 years old- and I have always come through for you, I have never forsaken you, and have never stopped providing for everything you could every possibly need. Now, I have brought you to this place right now... its ok to cry, its ok to be unsure of your surroundings, because I've got you! I know the way home.. Dad loves you!
Landon and I keep asking ourselves: "What could be the reason God moved us here?" and we have found so many good reason to be grateful for our circumstances. God has surrounded us with loving, God fearing, generous, faith-filled people here. He is growing our hearts and expanding our walls of security. He is humbling us to the floor and is taking back all that the enemy has stolen. He is giving us the greatest gift.
As I wrote about in our last blog update- my security has always been found in provision and knowing where everything I need is going to come from. Well, my earthly security has been taken away to make way for the Lord- the King of all provision! Amen?!
Landon and I need to raise $10,000 for our mission trip to East Asia and we need to get at the very least $5,000 in by this weekend so we can reserve our plane tickets. We know this is a huge sum of money but God has ALL the money in the world and Landon and I are building our faith! We do believe God has something for us in East Asia- something He very much wants to have happen, so will you partner with us? Lets build His Kingdom in a land that He very much loves!
If you feel led to this link would be the fastest way to give:) Thank you!
Signed,
A Warrior for the King
Bekah and Landon McCall
It has been a wild 3-5 weeks for me and Landon. Packing up and moving our family across the pacific ocean because of a word we heard from the Lord has not been easy... but I don't remember God promising me or Landon that it would be when He asked us to do it. I also haven't heard the version of the story of when God spoke to Abraham and said, "Hey Abraham, move your family on foot across a desert to a destination I will show you years from now, oh and hey! Don't worry- It'll be easy." He asked us, we heard, we listened, and obeyed. I think that is all He requires of us isn't it? To be listening for Him and to obey Him when we do hear Him. I have been so encouraged by everyone, telling me how faithfully I have been following the Lord in what He has asked me to do... But the truth is- I am deathly afraid. ALL my hope is in Him and His quest to lead my life. He tells me to have faith and to lay all my burdens down but I sometimes find myself not letting go of my burdens because I want to have responsibility and a say about what happens in my life.
God comes to me in these moments and reminds me... You gave me your life when you were 5 years old- and I have always come through for you, I have never forsaken you, and have never stopped providing for everything you could every possibly need. Now, I have brought you to this place right now... its ok to cry, its ok to be unsure of your surroundings, because I've got you! I know the way home.. Dad loves you!
Landon and I keep asking ourselves: "What could be the reason God moved us here?" and we have found so many good reason to be grateful for our circumstances. God has surrounded us with loving, God fearing, generous, faith-filled people here. He is growing our hearts and expanding our walls of security. He is humbling us to the floor and is taking back all that the enemy has stolen. He is giving us the greatest gift.
As I wrote about in our last blog update- my security has always been found in provision and knowing where everything I need is going to come from. Well, my earthly security has been taken away to make way for the Lord- the King of all provision! Amen?!
Landon and I need to raise $10,000 for our mission trip to East Asia and we need to get at the very least $5,000 in by this weekend so we can reserve our plane tickets. We know this is a huge sum of money but God has ALL the money in the world and Landon and I are building our faith! We do believe God has something for us in East Asia- something He very much wants to have happen, so will you partner with us? Lets build His Kingdom in a land that He very much loves!
If you feel led to this link would be the fastest way to give:) Thank you!
https://apply.uofn.edu/OnlineAppDocs/OnlinePayment.cfm
Signed,
A Warrior for the King
Bekah and Landon McCall
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