Sooo, not sure know if you know this or not, but I love missions and overseas travel :)
Over the past 5 years I've had the
opportunity to travel to Mexico, Israel and Guatemala. Each of those
trips were basically just given to me- and God provided for me to be
able to have those amazing experiences of traveling and being a
missionary in a short term sense.
I recently have become acquainted with
several people who work with a ministry in Evansville, Indiana whose
primary mission is to reach the people of Myanmar. Uncharted
International has been working in Myanmar for more than a decade, and
has been bringing the people in that country to a saving knowledge of
Jesus Christ. This is a small excerpt from the ministries web site about
their work in Myanmar:
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"Myanmar is a country located in Southeast Asia. Buddhism is the
major religion practiced there, 90% of the Burmese people are Buddhist;
4% are Muslim. It is also has portions of the country listed as one of
the top 10 least reached areas of the world. Myanmar is a country with
one of the fewest number of foreign missionaries living there. Myanmar
is the poorest Asian country with the average yearly income at $1900.
There are about 1,700,000 orphans in the country and Myanmar has the
highest number of children in the sex trafficking trade."
The ministry being done in Myanmar
- 8 orphanages with over 363 orphans
- 1 Bible College with 82 students and 12 faculty teachers
- A clothing factory to provide skills for our high school and college students.
- 13 church planters with over 100 house churches….and this grows every year!!
Vision and Goals
To win the lost, make disciples of Christ and raise up new leaders to
multiply churches. We hope to have 1,000 house churches by 2018.
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I was excited to learn
about
Uncharted International because I love missions, I love traveling
and most importantly I love telling people about Jesus and sharing His
love with them! And on top of all of that, I have a family who is
basically giving me half of the cost for a trip to to to Myanmar in May
2013!
When I first heard about the trip in May, I was excited but pretty
much assumed I wouldn't be able to go, because it is about $3000. Then
when I was told half the cost would be covered if I could find a way to
come up with the other half, I began getting really excited!
Between working about 30 hours a week, and going to
school full time- it's been really difficult for me to sit down and
organize some formal fund raising events. I am normally very opposed to
support letters, because I hate soliciting people for something that I
want! But as I prayed and thought about it, I realized the only way I'd
be able to go on this trip is if I did choose to step out, and see if
there were some people who would want to come beside me and help to make
this happen! I definitely do not say that to pressure anyone in any way, because
if people are unable to financially give, I know that there will be support
from people in prayer which is equally important!
So, if you find yourself reading this little blog post, all I ask is that you'd prayerfully consider helping me make this
trip a reality! I need to raise/make $1600 total, and then the trip
would be fully covered! If there is any more information you would like
about the trip, or the missions organization, please don't hesitate to
ask! And thank you for taking the time to read this! I am very excited
to see if God opens up this door for me to be able to travel to Myanmar!
Blessings and love!
