Welcome to my first blog! And my first blog post.

This is the place I will share my every thought and feeling.

So sit on down and settle in!

Just kidding 🙂

I will share some thoughts and feelings, but I won’t bore you to death with every little thing that runs through my mind. The plan is for people to like reading my blog, so I’ll do my best to make it enjoyable.

I decided to start blogging because I’m planning on moving to Honduras in August and I want to keep people updated on what’s going on there–and now, before I leave, what’s happening here in the good old U.S. of A as I’m raising support and getting ready to go.

Raising support is kind of scary. I’m moving to Honduras to teach at an academy that’s part of an organization called World Gospel Outreach. It’s not a paid position though, so I have to find people who are willing to partner with me by donating to me monthly. These people will make it possible for me to move to Tegucigalpa and do what God has for me there. I seriously cannot do it on my own.

Which is kind of cool, actually…

If I got a job here and saved up for a couple of years, I could make enough money to move to Honduras and support myself for a little while. That wouldn’t be a bad thing. However, God wants me to go now, and I think it’s better to do things with other people, so I’m going the support-raising route. If I just do it all on my own, no one else gets to be involved with me. Yeah, they could still hear about what I’m doing and care about it, but it’s not the same as actually investing and being a part of it. I really don’t want people to just give me money to give me money. If you feel like you should support me but you don’t care that much about what I’m doing, I’ll still gladly accept your support, but I really want people to connect with what I’m doing, care about it, and genuinely want to be involved.

One of my biggest fears in raising support is that I’ll share my story with people, tell them all about Honduras, and they’ll be interested in what I’m doing and excited about it, but then when I mention that I need support, they just tell me again what a great opportunity it is and wish me luck. Please, please, please, if you can help, help! It makes me think of the scripture in James 2 that says:

14 What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone? 15 Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing, 16 and you say, “Good-bye and have a good day; stay warm and eat well”—but then you don’t give that person any food or clothing. What good does that do?

17 So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.

I know that I sure haven’t given to people every time that I should have, but being in the situation that I’m in, these verses make a lot more sense to me and I can really connect with what they’re saying. Don’t just “hope” something will happen if you can actually be a part of making it happen. Get in there and do something! We can apply this to a lot of areas in life. I can apply it to wanting to be disciplined. I have a lot of trouble with that, but I do have control over it, so instead of just saying all the time, “I really want to be disciplined,” I could take some steps and work on changing some habits so that it can happen! Basically, words and thoughts are not enough by themselves. Yeah, we all wish there weren’t little kids starving in Africa and all over the world, dying of preventable diseases, but unless we decide to do something about it, it’s going to keep on happening.

Anyways, I could make this a really long post if I go into all of the things going on in my mind, but I’ll refrain and save those things for another time. (I hope to use some higher level words–like “refrain”–in my blog to make me sound smarter. But really, just to take it to the next level, you know, and be professional-like ;))

Thanks for reading my first post 🙂

I hope it wasn’t boring and that you’ll come again.

I also hope and pray that you’ll connect with me and be excited about this too!

Let’s be people with faith that produces good deeds!

If you want to check out the organization that I’m working with, you can go to www.wgoreach.com

If you’d like to donate to me, follow the link above, choose “Donate” at the top,  the fourth rectangle “Support Our Missionaries” on the next page, and then choose my name “Lindsey Speer.” If I can get a direct link to work, I’ll put it on my next blog!

If you’d like to email me with any questions or some thoughts to share, my email address is lindsey.speer@wgomission.org

Peace!