Five Dollars becomes Ten Thousand

The night I went to our weekly sorority business meeting and announced the internship I was going to take for the next fall and how much money I had to raise, I asked my sisters if anyone of them would like to give towards my support raising. This meeting was the first time I had spoke about my trip and asked for support. I passed around an empty envelope, should anyone like to give at that moment, along with a paper to write mailing addresses on if they would like to receive my support letter. The paper came back rather full which was a heart-warming feeling. But that envelope came back to me with a lone five dollars in it, and to this day I don’t know who gave that bill. All I know is that when that could have been a rather depressing start to my support raising, I knew straight away that this five dollar bill would be just like the five loaves of bread that Jesus turned into food for five thousand people. Three months later that five dollars, God has multiplied into 10,000. Many of my ASA Zeta Phi sisters have helped me out financially, and I am so grateful to them, and thank you especially to the anonymous giver of my first five dollars of support! If it were not for those who offer what they have, however small the amount, God would have nothing to work with in the first place.

Yet another excitement is that this $10,000 was based on an estimate of having to stay in a sort of glorified hostel which cost quite a bit. I have now been blessed with a host family in London to stay with; thus, the estimated total cost is back down to about $8,000! Whatever I don’t end up needing for myself I will be donating to eMi to distribute to whatever project cost is most needed! Thank you once again to everyone who has supported me in this mission!

Luke 9:12-17
Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside and find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here." He replied, "You give them something to eat." They answered, "We have only five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd." (About five thousand men were there.) But he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each." The disciples did so, and everybody sat down. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to set before the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.