I am excited to tell you about my upcoming mission’s
opportunity! As many of you know I have had a huge passion for missions. I’ve
been waiting for the last year, since moving to Tennessee, for something to
open up to go for a longer missions term. I contacted a few agencies but did
not feel confident in what I was finding.
So I continued to pray and seek God’s will and then God opened up the
door for me to go back to Webuye, Kenya. I went to Encouragement Children’s Home
in May of 2012 for a two week trip. This time I am looking to go for SIX
months--December 29, 2014 to June 29,2015. Right now the orphanage is
lacking staff which is causing the children not to be taken care of as well as they
should be. So Vic Rader, the man who started the orphanage in 2004, asked if I
would be willing to go and help manage the Center. This will include overseeing
the care of the children, helping with work on the school building and teaching
the children daily. This will be a great experience for me to be on the mission
field serving and learning how to live in another country for a longer amount
of time than I’ve done before. What it comes down to is, I want to be able to
share the love of Jesus with these children and the other adults in this
community.
A
little update on me! I am currently
working as a three-year old teacher at Grace
Children Center in Chattanooga, TN. As I have been trying to wait patiently
on the Lord for a new mission to open up, I have been serving at our church and
loving getting to know all sorts of sweet people here. I had always thought
immediately after college I would have an idea of where God would be sending me
and that I would be able to just go. However, God had different plans for me
and that was to move to Tennessee with my family and begin a job. It has been a
growing experience but also an awesome time meeting new people, working with
children, and going to new places. I am so thankful for God’s control in my
life. I do not know where I would be without HIM. I am just praising the Lord
for the work He has done in my life. I am so thankful that God has placed such
wonderful influences on my life which many of YOU play a part in!! I know that
God has the PERFECT plan for me and I can hardly wait to see what HE has in
store!
Finally, I need your PRAYERS! I take
this very seriously when I ask for your daily prayer support. I believe that
prayer is one of the most powerful resources in life. God has called us to a
relationship with Him and we need to be in prayer constantly and consistently.
As I have learned how to become more intentional with my conversations with the
Lord I have seen how my relationship with the Lord grow and how He has
challenged me even more in my life to become more like Him. I truly would LOVE
to have your prayer support.
As I am sure you also realize, I am in
need of financial support as well as encouragement. We have calculated $5000 as
the total cost of this six-month mission.
If you would like to donate towards my trip, you may do so by
following these steps:
1. Go to kenyaorphans.org
2. Select the Volunteer
tab
3. Choose the “Click to
Donate” option
4. Then find my name and
click to donate there J
If you want to send it via mail, you can
send the money with my name clearly identified to:
Encouragement Inc.
1803 Snowflake Dr,
Colorado Springs, CO
80921
If you would prefer to send me the
money directly that would be fine as well. You may email me personally for my address. If you have any questions about
finances or the trip in general please do not hesitate to ask me!
Thank you for joining me in this
journey. I will be updating my blog (http://katlynapollock.blogspot.com/ ) and also my Facebook
page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/katlynpollock/?ref=br_tf
) Feel free to follow me there OR if you would like to receive an email update
please let me know! If you have any
further questions concerning this trip you can email, message on Facebook, or
call me. I would love to answer them!
Thank you so much for praying for and
supporting me in this next step of my life.
Katlyn Pollock
