This time next week...

...I will be in Thailand! 


This past week my visa finally came and I officially bought my plane tickets...which means I will be leaving SOON! This Sunday, August 5th I will leave from Philadelphia and begin my journey to Thailand. Please continue to pray for me this week as I pack and get things ready. 


Also please continue to pray for me as I sort through the mixture of emotions and feelings as Sunday becomes closer and closer. After a weekend of celebration, prayers, and also many goodbyes, I have been struggling through the many opposing feelings of sadness, fear, anxiety, excitement, eagerness, confidence, etc. 


This morning I read in Acts 18: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city." God knows we will fear. He knows my fears and my anxieties, but He doesn't promise to take them away. What He does promise is that He will be with me, and His presence is what will give me confidence and peace.


Rest in that with me this week and please pray with me as I get ready to leave in just a few days. 

The countdown continues...

...less than 3 weeks to go!


Please continue to pray for the preparations, financial support, and that my visa will come in time. I have been asked some questions lately so here are some updates/answers: 

• Financial update: my goal is to have half of my year's funds ($6,000) raised before I leave. So far I am a little over halfway to this goal. Please help me reach this! You can support me financially by giving a one time donation (through the link on the right) or by becoming a monthly supporter. 
• To donate monthly: email gail@freedomstones.ws to sign up for automatic withdrawal. 
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I have been beyond blessed over the past two months to see how God has raised an incredible support community around me. Thank you for doing this with me : ) 

What’ere my God ordains is right…

…His Holy will abideth,

I will be still what’ere He does,

And Follow where He guideth.

He is my God,

Though dark my road,

He holds me that I shall not fall

Wherefore to Him I leave it all.

…this song has been my theme lately. It’s been an emotional roller coaster preparing to go to Thailand. There have been plenty of moments crying out in anger to God, asking why He wants me in Thailand- doubting His care, provision, and desire for my good. There have been moments of disbelief, questioning how I, Kelly Jacoby, can truly help these women who have seen injustice and poverty like I have never known before. Yet there’s also been times of singing these lyrics, knowing that this is exactly where God wants me to be, and because of that, “though dark my road, He holds me that I shall not fall” and this is exactly where I need to be.

In one month I am boarding a plane to Thailand, a country I’ve never been, with a language I know three words of, and people who will hopefully soon become my close friends and community in a dark world.

But for that to happen, for me to board that plane in exactly one month, I need you. I need your prayers, because as things usually happen in my adventures, I am wondering if everything will come together and plans will really happen as they are supposed to. I have yet to secure a visa. Today I received the information on the people who will help me with this and am praying that it will come by August 5^th.

I need your prayers:

·         Pray everything with my visa will go smoothly and it will come by August 5^th.

·         Pray all the other details will come together- my plane tickets, my Cambodia visa for job training in my first two weeks…

·         Pray for me: that I can remain abiding in Christ and trusting in His cross, as I go through the emotions of getting ready to leave.

I also still need financial help. Thank you for everyone who has supported me already. I have been so blessed by the way God has been building up community and support around me. I ask that if you have not already supported, please consider donating financially.

Thank you all for doing this with me and joining my community. You are a blessing.

 …and please join me in singing this. Whatever our God ordains IS right.