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I have a financial deadline of $2,000 this weekend so we can buy flights for the trip. I am close to reaching this goal, please consider partnering with me now to reach this goal.

World Race Films shoot

It’s mid October and I am at the halfway mark of my time here at Adventures in Missions (AIM) preparing for my videography mission trip in January. The trip, Kingdom Journey’s: Storytellers, is shaping up really well. We have three teammates committed and I am working on recruiting a couple more specific people to round at the small team at about five or six.

We have refined the vision of the trip to be a 12-episode docuseries to come out weekly on YouTube. We will be curating a collection of stories about AIM long term missionaries, participants, partner organization and locals bookended by our team’s journey to find them. We will be traveling west starting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia through Thailand and ending in Myanmar (Burma). We will be using specific AIM partner ministries as starting points and allowing the spirit to lead us to specific stories. We are looking to leave for the trip the second week of January.

Building a brand new trip has been an incredible learning experience. It has felt like both a scavenger hunt and an obstacle course. All the resources are here, but there isn’t a straightforward manual of how to start a new trip. I have had to step-by-step, person, by person, figure out what steps to take to get everything done – all while not even knowing what exactly to get done in the first place. Along the way each new discovered step was more often than not met with a little hurdle to jump over.

On the whole, planning and creating this new experience has been very enjoyable. I have learned about admissions, mobilization, logistics, finance, insurance, ministry contacts, route crafting (I don’t think that’s a real term) and so much more. It hasn’t been easy, but I have felt supported and encouraged by leadership and my peers.

I have been working inside the film room in the marketing office. While here I have gotten countless other opportunities to grow and serve the ministry. I have be heavily involved with World Race Films, a team that creates a thought provoking, Christ-centered film every other week. I have also been involved in marketing, coaching racers in storytelling and have gotten to speak a few times a training camps about vlogging and how to share your testimony.  

Time here has been incredibly valuable, fruitful and busy! I want to thank everyone that has encouraged me so far in this lofty goal. We are less than three months away and there is still so much to do. I have a lot of funds to raise still and have to be honest that this has been the hardest part of the whole process.

I have not raised very much money yet, because honestly I haven’t really asked very many people. I have found a lot of pride in my heart in this area, I haven’t wanted to ask for support. I want to humble myself now and ask for help in reaching my first goal of $2,000 this weekend. I have never come down to the wire on a deadline before because I have never felt shame in asking for financial supporters before. So I want to put down that lie and be obedient to this Kingdom dream.

Please consider partnering with me on this project. You can do so with debit/credit card by clicking donate on the right hand side of this blog. You can also contribute with a check made out to Adventures in Missions (with my name in the memo line) and mail it to:

Adventures in Missions, PO Box 742570Atlanta, GA 30374-2570


Thank you for all your support, encouragement and prayer. Make sure to check out some of the projects I have done in my time here.  

Julia

One comment

  1. These videos were powerful and spoke to the way your giving your life to God and, in turn, bringing value to your days. I’m honored to watch you do it, and I’m inspired to keep pushing down the road to California that you help me set off on. I hope to cross your path again, and I hope it’s soon. God bless this journey that you’re on!

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