I'm gonna be off to LAUP in five days! This Sunday I'll be shipping off for a month and a half, living right in the inner city and working with Homeboy Industries. If you're not familiar with them, they're essentially a gang-intervention organization, but you can look up their full purpose at their
website. (There's also a book,
Tattoos on the Heart, written by Homeboy's founder. It's seriously amazing.) In particular, our team will be working in five different departments: (1) curriculum, (2) tattoo removal, (3) catering & gardening, (4) IT, and (5) development. I'm not sure what that last one is, but I'm feeling pretty excited about all of them.
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This is definitely going to be a rough couple weeks, and not just because I won't have phone or internet access, but because I've realized that I am afraid of being uncomfortable. It's not like I run screaming from metal folding chairs, but that deep down, I don't want to have to trust God to provide for me. I want to have a house I feel is big enough, a car that's reliable enough, and a bank account stable enough that I can feel safe on my own. I'm not going to get that at LAUP. Until August 3rd, my team and I are going to receive $5 per day to cover all our day-to-day expenses. Food, gas, laundry, unexpected car repair... We're all going to survive, obviously, but I am definitely going to have to learn how to trust God in a much more concrete way than I've ever had to.
Speaking of jarring segues, if you're interested in sending me letters (or receiving them), my mailing address will be this guy:
Gordon Lee
Homeboy Industries
Los Angeles Urban Project
P.O. Box 31190
Los Angeles, CA 90031
They get delivered to us once a week, so don't flip out if you write me and don't hear back for a couple weeks. I'll respond to you as best I can with the time I have, but at the very least I'll write you back at least once.
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I'll post another one on here just before I head out with more specific prayer requests, but the big one I have for right now is that God would keep preparing me, my team, the LAUP participants, and our mission fields for the work that He's going to accomplish. It's going to be hard one way or another, and I figure it's better to have Him there than not.
SDG,
-Gordon Lee
P.S. I forgot to mention: I'M TOTALLY ENGAGED. Holy snap, you guys. I cannot tell you all just how excited I am to get married to the most amazing woman who's ever existed, and turns out she doesn't mind too much either.
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On an unrelated note, did you know weddings take a lot of work? Hoo boy. I feel like I should have seen that coming.
