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Maybe I should have stayed home, I thought, bobbing my head to the music, scanning the party for familiar faces. When my friend invited me to come watch her husband’s band play at a retirement dinner for local teachers, I figured it would be fun. But now I just felt out of place. It didn’t help that my mind was somewhere else, worrying about the situation I was in.

 

I’m the director of Eaglecrest Alaska Missions—a Michigan nonprofit that helps needy families in the Mat-Su Valley of Alaska. It was almost time for our 10-week summer program to help needy residents with yard work, build sheds, paint homes. Typically we don’t have enough volunteer staff—maybe 10 if we’re lucky. This year? We had double that! I was incredibly grateful, but there wasn’t enough room for them on campus. To accommodate everyone we’d needed to utilize our bus—and I didn’t know anyone with a commercial license. I kept my worries between God and me, praying every day for a solution.

 

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