Out of the frying pan and into the fire

In just four days I will drive the 3 hours - a small step, but a leap of faith - to Crowley Lake, CA, where thus is the beginning of so many things for me. Though already the growth process is long underway. It amazes me that just when you think you are safe, something else comes along to challenge and poke you out of your comfortable position.
I received word yesterday that two of the young ladies who had signed up for the program withdrew. Another of the young ladies signed up will not be here until December, so that leaves only one other girl in the program for the fall. One. Simultaneously our other male staff member is having trouble getting his visa into the states (he is from Australia). So here we are just weeks away from Masters starting, we have a program full of guys, but our male staff member is having trouble getting here. I am here and ready to go, and we don't have any girls! Life can be such an irony.
Just when I thought I was safe from the insecurity that nips at faith's heels, I find it chasing me again. But I am choosing anyways to have faith despite what I see. Life is a series of faith-building circumstances, as sometimes we go out of the frying pan and into the fire. In such situations faith is a fight more than ever.
This situation seems impossible - financially we are in a crunch. It is disheartening and discouraging. It makes me feel like I've lost my purpose. But what is the truth? Faith is working in this circumstance. Faith is the substance of what we are hoping for, the evidence we have now of what we do not see yet.
Can I forgot what I have just so recently seen? How I felt when I first began this journey? I felt unneeded, and even like I was imposing. All I wanted was purpose in my life - something to set my hands to where I felt needed and useful. I can still here Tom Lonsdale's words, "we need you, we just don't know it yet." And it proved to be true. I know we will see again the proof of God's hand working for the best in our lives. And in the end God's best and God's plan is always worth the journey.
So I am leaping into any entirely insecure looking circumstance, walking in faith that because God holds the situation in His hands, the future couldn't be any more secure. Who says being a Christian is boring? Living the life of faith is living life on the edge baby! Daniel 11:32b, "...but those who know their God shall be strong and do exploits." I know my God - at this point fear only makes the journey more exciting =)
Prayer Requests:

• Matt & Abby Don (Master's Commission Directors) - This is their first year taking full leadership of the program. Pray that they would not be discouraged or disheartened by our current circumstances or by what they see. Pray that they would be filled with courage, faith, and wisdom.
• Joel (The other staff member) - Pray that he would have favor to get his visa in time! That he would not be discouraged as well in the mist of circumstances that are opposing all of us.
• Students - We still need students, especially girls. Pray that God would open up divine connections, and that He would make a way for the right people He has called to be a part of this program to get here.
• We need new tires for one of the Master's Commission vehicles.
• Please pray for our staff team that we would have eyes to see what God is doing, and to completely let Him reshape what He wants it to look like this year.