-Provision-

My team is leaving for Italy in 15 days (wahoo!!). As of Friday, we still needed $13,000 for our trip. Rather scary. We were starting to feel a little more confident, though, because we had 2 fundraisers planned for this past weekend: Krispy Kremes and a can/bottle drive.

Saturday morning, I left school at 5:30 with three of my teammates. We followed our mapquest directions to a T and they sent us completely the wrong way. Lame.

We finally got to Krispy Kreme about 20 minutes late (good thing they give you a 1 hour window!). I walked up to the counter and explained that we were there to pick up our 150 dozen fundraising doughnuts. The lady disappeared to the back room, came back out and said "I'm sorry, we don't have an order for this morning."

Great.

After some communication with the general manager and the fundraising department, they told us they would make our doughnuts - but it would take about 2 hours. We said okay because we had no choice, but, in truth, we were a little disappointed because it meant we would lose out on our two biggest selling hours - 8 to 10am.

We got the doughnuts (which barely fit in my car) and drove back here. We get to our location and it's dumping rain. Here in Oregon, the rain has to be rather crazy for us natives to say that it's truly dumping. But we got set up anyway. We didn't sell anything for the first hour. By noon we'd only sold about 20 dozen doughnuts. Discouragement was setting in pretty heavy.

We came together as a team and prayed and when we said "Amen" there was a line of 4 cars waiting for doughnuts from us AND the rain had stopped.

Throughout the rest of the day, the rain pounded, the wind blew like crazy, we had hail, thunder, everything. The last 2 hours were sunny. We had 2 dozen doughnuts left so we decided to pack up and we'd try to sell the last 2 dozen here at school. One of the girls prayed right then and there that God would help us sell that last 2 dozen. No less than a minute later, someone pulls up and asks for 2 dozen doughnuts, if we have any left. Praise GOD! We made $600 from the sales and $300 in donations. $900 in 12 hours. Praise God!

Then Sunday we spent the day doing a can/bottle drive. I honestly didn't think we'd make much. At our meeting Sunday night, my treasurer and I counted the money and we made almost $400. Wow!

Then we gathered up everyone's support checks that they'd gotten throughout the past week and we had another $2,200.

So...in 2 days...God gave my team $3,500.

It was just so amazing to see all of the road blocks that Satan was throwing up in front of us (the doughnuts, getting lost, the horrible weather, discouragement) and watching our great God tear every one of them down.

SO COOL.

And then we had a meeting Sunday night and I had each of my teammates share something that God has taught them since starting the preparations for this trip. It was so cool to see how He is working in their hearts.