Preparations

Its almost here. May 16th is only hours away. In 24 hours our team will all be in Miami. In 36 hours we'll be flying somewhere over Brazil. And in 36 hours and 50 minutes we will finally be on the ground in Buenos Aires.

     It has been a long time coming. I first thought I might want to go on a Summer Project last spring (2010). Last summer I went on a stateside Summer Project in Vail, Colorado (here's the blog from that:  http://vailsp2010.blogspot.com/). It was amazing and I definitely wanted to do something like it again. I talked to several people who had been on International Summer Projects. It sounded a lot different but, if it's possible, even better than stateside project. The focus in International Summer Projects is a lot more about evangelism which wasn't a huge focus last year (it was definitely part of it but personal growth was emphasized). I finally decided for sure that I wanted to go in January after the Encounter conference. Then I had to figure out where to go. My first thought was East Asia but I couldn't think of a lot of good reasons to go there except for just wanting to. I was encouraged to go Argentina because it is the University of Louisville's partner location and they depend on us to send summer project-ers there. I ended up choosing Argentina and I'm glad I did.
     Then there was support raising. It's called Summer Project but a lot of the time it felt like a Spring project too. Raising the money was a lot more work than I thought it would be and it stressed me out. I was seriously worried I wouldn't get enough money in and then I would have to (ashamedly) return the money that people had sent to me. But the Lord provides. In one way or another, all the money came in!
Classes have been over for two weeks now and May 16th has slowly crept closer. And now its here.

     I'll use this blog to keep you updated on how God is working, how he is bringing the Way, and the Truth, and the Life to Buenos Aires. We aren't going to have a lot of internet access there so I probably will only be able to post like once every week at the most. And pictures won't be up here or on Facebook until I get back.
Please pray for me, our team, our travel, and all the Argentines we'll be meeting in the next six weeks. Thanks