blog.capturingcourage.org: TIME, HERE, ITS NOW!

Cyndy Lavoie
blog.capturingcourage.org
Building People Encouraging Lives

TIME, HERE, ITS NOW!

The picture of preaching and praying to many in Africa, was given to me some 30 years ago. Not recalling the exact age that I was at the time, this image has been with me so long that it feels that it has simply always been there.

My past ten years have been about preparing and establishing personal and corporate infrastructure to carry the work, with the Lord telling me over a year ago to take the picture of going to Africa off of the shelf in my minds eye; the time was getting closer.

Some years back I was impatient. Impatient to know when the releasing would be I cried out, "When?" only to come to understand that I needed to wait, as once released and begun the journey would come fast and furious.

And so I've been waiting, and biding my time with any number of great things to do and further preparations to be had. I finished off my coach training and began building that as a business. I joined forces with Maximum Impact Training & Development, bringing professional development to teams and managers, business's and non-profits.

At Max we hosted a one-day women's leadership conference in 2011 called Defying Expectations. A stunning day to say the least. I was keeping busy. Yet always in the back of my mind, the knowledge that one day would be the timing to step into a specific speaking and praying that would take me to parts of the world I had never been.

If anyone had asked me last summer when that might be, I'd have said that it was another two to three years off at the very least, but more likely five.

Boy was I wrong.

There seems to be this thing with waiting. We often and always feel like we are waiting for something, a lot of times a lot of things. Waiting and waiting, and like a watched pot the darn thing never boils.

Well, waiting for me in this specific thing, is over. And I am still adjusting in some ways.

I must say that it is very strange to have been waiting for years and years and years and all of a sudden-like to find oneself here. HERE, NOW, its TIME

A 30-year vision, 10 years of deliberate getting ready, internally and out, and it is now time.

So I've stopped everything else I am doing outside of Capturing Courage International, I've shut down my coaching website, and am no longer with Maximum Impact.

God is up to something in Africa, and I've been invited to be a part of it, and I'm taking up the offer.

Looking back on my life with all of its good, bad and the ugly, I realize that every single part, EVERY SINGLE PART, every seemingly random experience and thing I've ever done, has all added up to one amazing preparation for this call and opportunity.

I've not been told and warned and prepared for this job to respond halfheartedly once it shows up. If it is time, then I am jumping. Full bore, forward ho!

And there is something you could help me with.

While there have been any number of generous folk who are helping me out in various ways as I transition into full-time ministry work, with others donating specifically to Uganda trips, these are simply not long-term sustainable plans.

But there is an answer: ADVANCE Daily

A daily email from the desk of Cyndy Lavoie, going out on a subscription basis of $2.99 per month.

And with a few thousand subscribers I am more than set to cover my home expenses and traveling to Africa; extending spiritual restoration, deep inner healing and freedom and leadership development to individuals, communities and nations.

But I don't have a thousand subscribers... yet!

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Thank-you to each one of you for your support in reading this blog. We are blessed at CCI to have many, many people who are encouraging and praying alongside us. Without your prayers we would not be able to do all we are doing.

For the many of you who made it out to a Uganda Story and Pic time, again thank-you for your blessing of presence over us, and your continued partnership through prayer and encouragements, wisdom and provision.

If you are interested in attending a Story and Pic time and are in the greater Vancouver BC area, simply private email me to let me know, as we are looking to have another of these in the next while.

cyndy@capturingcourage.org

Looking ahead, 2012 will have four trips to Uganda, and possibly a couple other countries as well. God-willing, four weeks from today I will be in Uganda for a months journey bringing deep spiritual restoration and leadership development to ten communities, churches and pastors.

A week ago the funding for this particular trip was at 2%, and it is now at 49%.

Praise the Lord!

Please continue to keep myself and Capturing Courage International in your prayers.

We are loosely a group of about 23 people, and covet your prayer support as we go forward into all that the Lord may have through us. Please keep us in your prayers, with many blessings back your way! Thank-you so much

A bit of a different blog today, thank-you for reading to the end and blessing me so very much with your presence and support, God's best to you today.