A New Season.

I know this update is long overdue. 

I wish I could explain my apparent disappearance from social media, but I cannot. 

I needed to take a moment to breathe and figure some stuff out before I came back to lay my heart on the table once again. 

Due to circumstances out of my own control, I am not able to go to Georgia in October. 

And I am heartbroken. 

But it is for the best I suppose, seeing as yesterday marked 100 days left in Calgary before I depart to Thailand and a new season of my life. 

To all of you who donated, I am forever grateful. 

I was able to raise $434.56 toward my plane ticket. 

Though I am no longer going, your faithful giving is not in vain. 

Every last penny will go to the funds I need to raise for Thailand. 

So THANK YOU. 

You all know who you are, 

and you have blessed me in an indescribable way. 

Today also marks my 23rd year of life. 

I was thinking back on all the incredible experiences I've been able to have in my short life. 

I thought back on all of the laughter and all of the tears. 

What a life I have been given the privilege to live. 

At age 23, I can say that I have traveled the world. 

31 countries to be exact. 

I have set foot on six out of the seven continents

I've swam with sharks and cliff jumped in Thailand. 

I've ate mountains of pasta and gelato in Italy.

I've pet a llama in Ecuador, and danced under the stars in Kenya. 

I've fallen in love with orphans in Swaziland and nearly sweat to death in the unrelenting heat of Cambodia.

I've already lived more than some people get the chance to. 

And I am so grateful. 

So as I watch the wind blow and the orange leaves flutter around me, 

I remember that change isn't always so bad. 

That a new season can bring with it blustering winds and cold nights. 

but the sun still shines above my cloud-filled vision. 

The sun is always there just waiting for an opportunity to burst through the storm. 

And that's where I choose to put my trust as I walk head first into this new year of life and this new season ahead of me. 

URGENT: Sanity Needed.

I've officially reached the hard part of all of this. 

The part that I have to consciously choose every single day to trust that God understands my needs,  and He desires to fulfill them. 

I've wondered so many times in the last few weeks if God really will provide all that I need to make life in Thailand a reality. 

There are still so many things that need to come through and so many things that I need to pay for. 

My visa application is a particularly big part of this. 

With no visa, I can't be in Thailand at all. 

And honestly, 

 right now it looks as though I won't have enough finances to actually go. 

But, I am trusting that I heard His call correctly. 

I am trusting that there are people somewhere out there that will want to come alongside me and fight with me for the freedom of those in sexual slavery. 

I am trusting with all my heart that I didn't make a giant mistake signing the next two years of my life away to His purpose. 

I don't mean to say that God has not been providing. 

He has already been providing in incredible ways. 

Like when my camera died a month before I'm supposed to be taking a photography class, and having no funds to buy a new camera. 

How do you take a photography class and then move to Thailand to do photography when you have no camera? 

But literally, within a few weeks, I had over $1,000 to buy one that is a massive upgrade from what I had. 

He is so faithful. 

But, I say all of that to actually direct your attention to something other than Thailand.

I say that I've reached the hard part of all of this, 

but honestly, this whole season at home has been really hard. 

And I feel like I've been nothing short of a hot-mess the whole time. 

I've been praying for a while for an opportunity to go to Georgia and visit many people from my beloved W squad. 

I desire nothing more than to hug them and worship with them and just BE with them once more before I move to Thailand and I most likely won't have the chance to see any of them for a long while. 

I feel like I need to be with the people who understand my heart more than anyone else, 

the people who became my best friends as we traveled the world together. 

I feel a little embarrassed about it, 

but yesterday morning, I literally woke up sobbing because I had a dream that my former team/squad leader had come to see me. 

I woke up with an ache in my heart and I went throughout the day with a constant lump in throat. 

I kept saying "I just miss him so much" 

And I do. 

I miss everyone so much. 

And I feel like it is essential to my preparation process and to my sanity that I go to them if possible. 

So. 

I have the opportunity to go and to be on the serve team for a World Race training camp that is coming up on October 11-19. 

Not only will I be reunited with my squadmates,

but also with a powerful woman I had the pleasure of leading in Kenya. 

I will also have the incredible opportunity to pour into and serve the next generation of World Racers. 

In order to make this happen, I need to book my flight ASAP. 

The general cost of a flight to Georgia is $700.  

And that is where you come in. 

I fully believe that God can and WILL provide,

and I believe that this is something that I need to do before I leave for Thailand, therefore it is part of what I am fundraising for. 

I am pulling on my faith and believing with all that's in me, that He is faithful. 

I need to tell AIM if I am coming by Monday, September 23rd. 

Which also means I need to have a flight booked by Monday. 

If you would seriously consider donating, I will be forever grateful. 

NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL. 

You can donate by clicking here,

Or if you have internet banking, by email transfer : allisonpriz@gmail.com

If you can't give even $5 (no shame, some people actually can't),

please, PLEASE be in prayer over this. 

Intercede for all the funds to come in by Monday. 

Once again, a thousand times over, THANK YOU to all who have given so far. 

Because you were faithful, the world will be changed for good.