Support Letter

Hey I decided before I leave I should post the support letter I sent out to answer a few questions about what I am doing so here is just the text version of it:

To my family and friends,

I wanted to share with you a little about what God has been doing in my life this past year and share about where I will be and what I will be doing the next few months serving the Lord. For the last year, my life has been going through a big transition. God has really been showing me so much about Him and that I need seek, obey, and please Him alone. I am currently working at Target as a Security Guard and attending The Rock church. There have been so many learning experiences, both ups and downs that I have been through this past year that have truly helped to teach me so much about myself and experience what true joy and freedom are, and where they come from. I have experienced the power of prayer and what it can do through events like The Call, fasting, small group and getting more involved at The Rock church.

The next two months I will be interning with a group called World Servants. World Servants is a Christian organization who works all over the world serving different poorer communities through a variety of different work projects, community picnics, VBS programs, sports camps and a variety of other different ways. I will be working in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia and Tennessee, in several small, rural communities. The communities I will be working in are: West Virginia: Grafton, Bretz, Richwood, Lost Creek. Tennessee: Jellico. I will be working in these communities for a total of six weeks, and I will be driving out there to help with logistics of getting me around once I am out there. Which mean that I leave June 8, 2009 and get back on August 8th 2009! This makes me both nervous and excited at the same time. I have never been on any kind of missions trip for that long, nor have I ever driven across the country! However, God has definitly led me to this place I am at in my life right now with Him and I am confident that this summer this is what He wants me to do.

Please pray for me. I know that sometimes I underestimate prayer and the power it holds, but I will need your help with this. I have seen God use pray to transform people’s hearts after years of being hard-hearted and personally have seen Him doing amazing things through prayer in my own heart. So please if you can remember to pray for me I will need it! I fully expect to be attacked by the enemy often and in ways I cannot forsee right now. So I hope that you will join with me in praying not only for myself but for the people I will interact with over there. Whether it be people in the community, or people coming to serve from places all over the country. I will also need to raise $1400.00 for the two months. I know times are challenging, but if God has placed it on your heart I would be forever thankful. If you would like to donate to me go to https://www.worldservants.org/donation.html?cat=Intern and just fill out the form putting in my name Jared McGowan.

For all of you who pray or support me financially I will be forever grateful for your help and thank you so much in advance!! God Bless you!!

In His service,



Ps. For updates check out my new blog http://jaredmcgowan.blogspot.com/