Tshirts and Your Contribution

Tshirts and Your Contribution

As of now we are 1/3 of the way to meeting the needed amount of $12,000 in order to partake in this trip in September. It seems like a far fetch, but I believe that Nothing is Impossible with God. Do you believe Jesus is big enough? I choose to believe even on the days or weeks when no money is raised and seems as if I am getting nowhere. I believe.

Anywho, as a way of fundraising I am selling tshirts for $20. My goal is to sell at least 300 tshirts in order to raise at least $3,000 from tshirts. This is a large goal, but I believe that it is attainable with your help and contribution. If this goal is reached we will be HALFWAY to meeting the needed cost of the trip! Of course, selling more would be fabulous, making us further along in progress!!

What you can do is tell EVERYONE: your friends, teammates, family, high school, college campus, church, youth group, college ministry, etc!! Tell everyone! I cannot do it alone, I only know so many people and so do you…but when we link arms together and then your friends link arms together and then their friend’s link arms together then we have a huge long chain of influence not just to raise tshirts but to show people JESUS!! It’s not just about selling tshirts and raising money. It’s about loving Jesus and loving others out of our love relationship with our Father. So, I pray you link arms with me and ask your friends, family, church, school, ministry, team, sorority, etc to link arms with you too!

Please do not let distance be a problem…thankfully there is this thing called MAIL in which you can mail me money and I can mail you your shirt once they are in. Speaking of that, I need your money FIRST before I order the shirts! This is important because I do not have thousands of dollars to pay for shirts haha! To give me money you can either give me cash or write out a check to Laura Beth Harbin. If I do not get to see you then please mail me the money BEFORE March 16. 353 Castlemere Court Murfreesboro, Tn 37130

Also, if several people at your high school or college order shirts in a driving distance of no more than 6-8 hours from Murfreesboro, TN then I will gladly drive them to deliver to your campus or church, etc. If not, then please do not hesitate to still order shirts just add an extra $3 for shipping and handling!

There are three different color tshirts, each with the same design. On the front left chest there is a heart that says “love never fails”. Also, on each shirt there is a map that wraps around the side. On the map it says Habakuk 1:5 “Look among the nations and see; wonder and be astounded for I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe even if told.”

Cherry Red represents South East Asia
Daisy Yellow represents Central America
Black represents Africa

So, you can either choose your color according to a specific region you have a heart for and desire to pray for OR you can simply pick the color due to whichever you like the best.

Please feel free to copy and paste this to your places of influence so we can not only raise money but make Jesus’ name made known!

Will you link arms with me?

Laura Beth Harbin


If you would like to order a tshirt(s) please comment below, email me or text me your name, number, color of shirt and size.

lbharbin11@gmail.com
615-556-1156
353 castlemere court murfreesboro Tn 37130

NEW BLOG

Hey everyone,

The organization that I am going on the 9 month trip with has created me a blog to post on. Therefore, I will be updating on this new blog from now on.

www.lbharbin.myadventures.org

Thanks to all!

Love,
Laura Beth Harbin

Call me crazy

As many of you know I went to Swazi for a month this past summer, came back and am in college in Chattanooga. I couldn't ask for anything better...I love it here: great friends, great job as after school counselor at YMCA, volunteering at Tennessee Baptist Children's Home, school is good, fam is great, etc. Then one day Jesus asked me if I would lay it all down for Him; to lose everything in order to gain Him. He asked me if I would trust Him and give Him all of my heart. SO here I am jumping in and just trusting Jesus with the rest.

This season of life over the past 3 months has been incredible. God has been teaching me dependency on Him and ultimately been taking me so much deeper in an intimate love realtinship with him. its so beautiful and i wish i could articulate it to you, ahhhh God is such a good loving daddy!!!!!

I have the priveledge of going on a 9 Month mission trip with AIM(adventures in missions). I will leave in September of 2013 and return May of 2014. I will spend 3 months in a country in Central America, 3 in Africa, and 3 in S.E Asia. In order to do this I need to raise $12,000. I need your help to continue in the path Jesus has for me. He will provide and always has. I pray you consider being apart of that providence-whether that's actually giving, praying, or pointing me in the direction towards unique ways to raise $$$$.

Because it is so expensive, I will be transferring to MTSU for this upcoming Spring semester and attend a summer semester as well in order to save money and get ahead in school.

Please pray alongside me as this is a huge leap of faith. Moreover, please pray for my mom and dad as it's a huge transition for them as well. Pray for comfort and peace over there hearts as they watch there firstborn travel a road of uncertainty and faith. Pray for this journey we are all on together.

Thanks,

Laura Beth Harbin

615-556-1156
lbharbin11@gmail.com
www.lbharbin.blogspot.com



353 Castlemere Court
Murfreesboro, TN 37130

Post Africa...college.

Well it's been awhile since I have blogged. Life has been absolutely crazy. I haven't had a time to just stop and be still. Those who know me know that I need time to just rest and be refreshed or I shut down and am out of control emotionally.
Its been a roller coaster since being home from the people I call my best friends and the place and people group i have deep in my heart.
There are days that I'm on the mountain top. Yet i have spent several days sitting at Rock bottom.
I've felt such a loneliness that hurts my heart. I feel so alone. I'm away from the people who know me best. I'm away from a place I love most.
Life has not slowed down since Africa. In fact it's just gone faster.
I'm overwhelmed and emotionally out of control. I'm in the desert season...my soul thirsts for God in a land where there is no water!!! I'm desperate, thirsty, and hungry.
To be honest I've been running away...I have been avoiding the now by constantly living in the past of Africa or looking forward to different trips I'd like to take or heck how I can get out of college earlier. I'm not living in the here and now.
I learned the other night that God hasn't stopped writing my story just cause I'm not in Africa anymore. He's been writing more, but I have been unwilling to turn the page. I'm in denial about turning the page. I'm stuck. I have been miserable the past month because I'm not living in the here and now. I'm not stepping out and I'm running away from what God has for me now. I think what could be better than Africa and my experiences there...but I know god has more in store, better things and new things to show and teach me. He wants to love me. Im not a burden to him. He wants to show me more of him. He wants me to surrender and let go. To just abide and rest. Submit.
Pray I quit wrestling and just submit.

Please pray alongside me. More of jesus less of me.
Jesus is enough.

I am beyond thankful for the phone calls, texts, emails and letters that I have received from people to simply invest in me, encourage me, check up on me and love on me where I'm at in this rough season of life.

Thanks for hearing me out.

Video!

Hey friends!!
Things are still going pretty smoothly with being home. I've had the opprotunity to meet with several friends and each time God shows me something more through talking about Swazi. Also, I began reading a book called "Scared" by Tom Davis. If you'd like a taste of the realities of Swaziland then this is the perfect book. It's not a fun fluffy read by any means...in fact the realities they live through sucks. There's no way around it.
Currently i've just been praying asking God what the next step is...the next journey. He's been brewing new things in me and I'm excited to see them unfold...until then I'm just waiting with Hope and treckin on in to college.
Speaking of college I've now been gathering things for my dorm. I can't believe how fast life is moving! I move in to UTC in just 2 short weeks! This is crazy!

Anywho...

I made a simple video of Swazi. Here's the link.
http://youtu.be/gSvK9k1JSmo


Thanks for the continual prayers!! Please don't stop praying for Swaziland!
Love,
Laura Beth Harbin

Being Home. Jesus is Enough.

Being home surprisingly has not been as bad as I had expected, thank you Jesus. Sure, I miss Swaziland like crazy and I miss my team(best friends) a whole lot too, but Jesus has given me such a peace. It's so weird haha, i don't know how to describe it...but He's given me such peace about being home right now and that the kids and people we ministered to throughout manzini in the carepoint and hospitals are okay. ha They're in great hands and God will never leave them or ever forget about them. I have peace.

Simply being home for 4 days God has already taught me so much. I've had so so so much time to process about Africa and I've only hit the top of the ice and boy its been so good. Daddy has been teaching me much about my time in Africa and why I was even there.
While I was there He disciplined me and grew my faith. He showed me that I am no different than the orphaned child. Just as Jesus never forgets or abandons them, so He never forgets or abandons me. That truth is for you and me too!! Jesus delights in me!
I learned that I don't let God love me. He wants to love me big, but i only let him in a little and then close him off. He wants all of me! He wants to show me new things and take me deeper in His love. He is such a loving Daddy that loves to cradle me in His arms and stare into my eyes.
I want to run to him with my arms raised high yelling "take me, Daddy, take me," just like the Swazi's did when they saw us "take me."
He's simplifying my faith....a childlike faith.
Man, God just showed me that He is enough. God didn't take me to Africa so that I could come back home with a cool story about a miracle or how people got healed and the country was revived and people believed in jesus....
Those things are great and its cool that people come back with that. However, God restrained that from me on this trip. My heart is not ready for that yet...my heart is still selfish and prideful. Jesus alone is enough! I don't need a cool story, though sometimes i still wish i had one to share with you. But Jesus is enough. I went to Africa and God showed me Jesus...and He is enough. God took me to Africa to humble me and love on me.
He showed me that it's not about me at all. It's only about Him.While i was sick and home from ministry me and God re-evaluated my passion for missions...am I in it for the glory and cool stories or am I in it solely to love on the people in front of me as a way of making jesus famous? Am I in it just to put that on my list of things i've done and mark off another country i've been to? Or am i truly passionate about this because Jesus is too and my heart breaks for what breaks His?
That was scary to re-evaluate while being in Africa. My heart had good intentions yet was in a bad place. Pride seeped in and flooded my heart...Then I allowed Jesus in and He cast it out.
It's so important to daily check your heart and ask God to renew your mind...
I learned to pray ephesians 6 every day...to put on the armor of God daily. I didn't realize how important that is until Africa where it's essential to do so daily.
Jesus is revealing so much to me right now and it's so humbling and I am beyond thankful for where He has brought me and what He has taught me while in Africa and even being home right now. His presence is so good.
Jesus is enough! Jesus is enough!! Jesus is enough!!!!!!! You don't have to have a cool story or feel anything, speak in tongues, heal people, prophecy, see visions, dream dreams...Jesus is enough!! Those things are gifts, they're not Jesus. If you have those gifts, thats super awesome, and if you don't thats just as awesome. JESUS IS ENOUGH!!!
open up your heart and let Jesus love you!! Let Him cradle you in His arms and stare into your eyes. You are His beloved in whom He is delighted in!!

Thanks for listening.
Laura Beth Harbin

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” - Mandela

Pics and videos update

Hey all!
I haven't done much at all besides lie in bed, journal, listen to music, and upload pictures and videos. Last night was the first time i got out. I went to the refuges community group and it went so well. I'm glad I went. It was good to be around a community of believers.
Anyway I still don't have words to describe my trip yet...I'm currently still processing it all and reading over my journal and all that jazz. Please keep myself and my team in your prayers as we continue to transition back into life that isnt normal anymore.

In the mean time feel free to check out some of my pictures and videos on my YouTube account as well as Facebook. Just search Laura Beth Harbin on facebook adn my pics should be public.

Love,
Laura Beth

http://m.youtube.com/#/user/lbharbin11