~The Plan ~мой план~

For those that have been wondering here is what I'm thinking. I'm planning on being in Russia by the fall of 2011, because I won't have the money until then, and there are a lot of things here that I need to take care of first. Besides that there was a time in my life where I had no job and no place to go. As a result I couldn’t afford to pay my loans and the government banned me from leaving the country until they are paid in full. I also have a super high payment because I didn't pay right away. So starting in Jan. I'll have about 1000 a month extra that I never had before. That's what I'll save for school if I choose to go that route. I'm also waiting on people in Ulan Ude. I've been praying a long time at where God wants me to go . At first I told almost everybody that I was going to St. Petersburg instead of Voronezth since I have a lot more friends and people that I know there. Though after looking at all of my journals and things since I left Ukraine and praying a ton I'm not sure. I could go to St. Petersburg, or Voronezh easily, but Ulan Ude intrigues me. Besides the fact that I've been praying for the right place to go and that I'm willing to go anywhere my heart lies in reaching more of an unreached area. Anyways they contacted me out of nowhere and told me that they think that I should go there and gave me an opportunity to work with some of the villages around that area. The weird thing is that I don’t really know any of them there other then the person that contacted me there and one of my friends that is from America that used to be a missionary there. Other then that I basically know nobody. Currently I’m looking for a school to teach at, or to go to there. I was told that there are schools there and how much they cost, but they didn’t tell me the name of it. Overall my heart is torn between different places. I could totally see my self going to St. Petersburg , or Voronezth, and being with some of my friends and their awesome ministries. Though I could also see myself following my heart and going to a group of people that I don't know at all and going from there. Overall, where ever I end up as long as I have food, shelter, and water I'm good. I also know that God has been working in my life and allowing certain things to happen even if it took my ex gf breaking up with me, a semi-world wide flood (well at least of my city), somebody dying in my immediate family, and so many other crazy things to get to this point. Sometimes I just like to say one way is the only way, but God knows my heart, and he knows what is best even though I may be stubborn at times. I know that through working like crazy the last few years selling a ton of what I had and so much more I'm incredibly close to paying off all of my debts. I would gladly risk everything for the chance of changing a child, or person’s life even if it's somebody I don't know. There is nothing like changing a person's heart from what may seem completely hopeless to showing them the true hope found in Christ and Christ alone! So in a nutshell I’m hoping to find the perfect place where I can teach/go to school for about a year, or more, and learn the Russian language a ton. With this I hope to use everything that I went to school for and what God has gifted me in to follow my dreams. In the long run I would love to do all, or a combination of the following in the future:
1. Help with a small village in the more unreached areas of Russia, or if God calls me elsewhere and start a church program that focuses on bringing troubled youth, orphans, etc. into the church and leads them to Christ.
2. Maybe do something like what Hudson Taylor did. My heart is really in this area. I never truly knew it until God changed me forever one summer with the help of a little foster child. My whole focus, major(s), etc. were changed forever. Though they were always focused on Russia and Ukraine I never truly knew how amazing working with the adoption and foster care system in an inner-city could be!

If anybody has any questions feel free to ask me and I’ll be happy to tell you. Don’t forget the fact that every kid needs a parent, or someone to look up to! You never know maybe God maybe calling you to a ministry like that! Stop, pray and try new things. You never know where your spiritual gifts may lye until you truly try anything and everything!