Hey everyone. I'm down in frigid cold Melbourne at the moment and I have determined that I actually have less Canadian blood than I do Aussie, its probably about 10 degrees (maybe more and I'm just a wuss) and I am wearing long undergarments, tshirt, long sleeved shirt, jumper, scarf, touque, gloves sometimes...wooly socks...and I'm sleeping with a hot water bottle, its RIDICULOUS! haha. Anyway, in case some of you don't know I am taking on a new role on base of school leading, and I need to take a two week seminar on training and assessment that is basically designed to help me effectively transfer my passion and knowledge and funnel the speakers that we have passion and knowledge into the lives of our students. So far its pretty good, I have taken the first phase of this course and it was very boring, but also pretty useful, this course is supposed to be done over a year (the second part that I am doing now) but we are cramming it into two weeks and I will get a cerftificate for it.
It is a mandatory course so the tuition and the room and board are covered by my centre, but the flights and spending money aren't. It has been a while since I have really put a financial need out there, but this trip is actually setting me back quite a bit and support is becoming scarce at the moment, which is completely understandable and I thank you all for your continued prayers regardless of ability to give financially, its completely amazing! But I would just like to put a prayer request and a need out there that at the moment I am having to take care of some business for this next season of ministry that is requiring some financial costs and if there is anyway you would be able to help me in covering these costs I would really appreciate it and it would be extremely helpful so I could continue paying my bills with the rest of the support I am getting.
So if you could just pray for my financial situation at the moment and maybe ask God if you can fit it into your budget to help me in this specific time, that would be amazing! And if not, please help me through continuing to pray that God would finance what I do over here. I love doing it, I know its what I'm created for and God is continually confirming that I am exactly where He wants me to be!! So thank you all again for everything you support me with and your continued throughts and prayers. At the moment I am just praying about the outreach locations for the new school and I am thinking possibly India, Thailand and Malaysia, but that is depending on what the base is setting its sights on in the moment as well. And I may be leading a team to one of these locations come December seeing as we have limited staff on my school to do so.
I truly am excited for what God has for this school and how He is going to channel His vision for each life through me in this time, I just pray that I will be an empty vessel that He can work through.
At the moment we have 13 students I believe. 7 from North America, 6 from Europe, 5 girls and 8 guys (which is unique to have more guys than girls, I'm glad God is rising up some amazing men of God for this school). And the ages ranged from 17 to 29 so its an exciting and diverse bunch and we should have about 5-8 more students according to what God has spoken to me!! Praise God!
Anyway, my hands are too cold to type from down here, haha. If you would like to help financially get a hold of my mom at smarsh6216@rogers.com or 1041 Snowberry St., Oshawa, ON, Canada, L1K 2H9. Thanks so much guys!! Really appreciate it!! Blessings on you all. This is a cold cold Adam Marshall, signing off from Melbourne Australia!
2 comments:
Hey Ad,
You wuss. Obviously you are now aclimatized to Oz. I will continue to pray for you and your work down under and wherever God sends you. I'm one proud uncle. Keep warm. Love you and miss you.
Uncle Steve
Hi Adam:
We just returned from Ladore late last night and read your newest blog. What great experiences you are having. We continue to pray for you always and know that God will also answer your prayers for financial support. We had an absolutely blessed time at Ladore - the best in the nine years we have been going. We were blessed beyond measure. There were 70 the first week and 145 the second. The spirit in the chapel services and vespers was wonderful and we ourselves were uplifted. They have all booked for the same week next year which means it is full already.
Missing you greatly and love you much. Keep the faith.
Love,
Gramma and Grampa
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