Happy Boxing Day

   This has been a unique Christmas for me. The reason being is that I was sick the entire time. Sunday evening I felt myself coming down with something. On Monday I felt slightly mediocre. Yesterday (Tuesday) I felt like pure death. I laid on the couch and drank tea all day. It was awful. Can you imagine being to sick to eat on one of the best food days of the entire year? However the day did have its perks. Such as the amount of coffee acquired.

    Today (Boxing day) I decided to go for a walk in the woods. It has been snowing for several hours now. So it was quite the winter wonderland.

   Just in case you might have a misconception that I am enjoy this weather, you must know that I was thinking about summer most of the time on my walk. So anyways, I hope everyone has a wonderful boxing day. It has been a good one for me. This is the first year that Boxing day was better the Christmas.

Leaving soon!

     Hello everyone!
      Quick update. I am very close to reaching full support! So if you haven't sent any in and you want to, feel free to! If you have promised support and are wondering when to start sending it, now is the time. I am very excited to see how God will work using your support and how you will be blessed through it.
       Right now I am set to leave for Brazil. I am just waiting on clearance from the FBI in order to apply for my visa. Please pray that I get that paperwork soon! Once I get it, I'll buy my plane ticket and go to the embassy in NY to get my visa. So please pray that it comes soon. I am very excited to leave and this waiting stuff can be really hard sometimes.
-Chris

8 Weeks

      In 8 weeks I will be headed to Brazil if all goes well. It seems like such a long way away but I am sure it will go very fast and be here in no time! At this point I'm probably the most worried I have ever been in my life. I have to raise close to 100% of my monthly support needs this month in order to leave in January. At this point I am at 25%. So I am really learning about trusting God to do what He wants and not what I want.
     Please if you have any desire to support me on my trip to Brazil, don't hesitate! Send in the support this month! If you have questions you can ask me. Please don't feel like you need to send in $10000000's. If everyone on my mailing list sent 8 dollars a month, that would cover my entire monthly support! So please pray about it!

Desert

    So I decided to make some desert today. Here are the pictures.

Start with Chocolate Chip cookie dough. Hand made.

Add Oreos. Double-stuffed.

Now for the fudge brownies.

Plop that baby in the oven.

Do the dishes.

And the final product.

So yeah I can bake. I'm pretty decent too. Straight off of pinterest. No I don't have one. Its from a friends. Not a guy, a girl. I don't know of any of my guy friends that have pinterest.

Hello Everyone!
You all may be wondering what I have been doing since my last letter. Well good news, because I’m about to tell you. I’ll start out with my summer because it’s important.
This summer I worked with Child Evangelism Fellowship in Schuylkill county, Pa. I got to work with kids at day camps we hosted all over the county. It was an amazing time to share the gospel with many kids and get to know them. The reason I tell you is because over the summer I really came to a point where I realized that working with kids brings me some fulfillment. God has placed in my hear the desire to work with kids and help them in whatever way I can. I think this is what I’ll be doing the rest of my life. Where or how I don’t know, but I believe God has given me this desire for a reason. So we’ll just have to wait and see!
BRAZIL. Every day is another day closer to the day I leave. I get a little more excited as each week goes by. This summer actually made me even more excited to be down their working with those kids. Currently I’m working a full time job and taking online classes. Between these I’m staying very busy! I like my job, I get to work hard so that I’m tired when I get home. In the evenings I work on school for a few hours. So by the time I to go bed, I’m mentally and physically exhausted. Working is helping me to pay off some school bills that I have and save up in order to pay for school while I’m in Brazil. Taking the online courses is helping me to get used to it before I go to Brazil. It would be tough trying to start classes as soon as I got to Brazil. This way I’m already used to how classes work.
Another awesome thing about my life right now is Portuguese! I’m taking Rosetta Stone right now to learn some Portuguese before I get to Brazil. Most people don’t speak any English down there so I need to learn!
Lastly I want to give you all an idea of my support. Thanks so much! My financial support is coming in much faster than I had thought! God answers prayers really quickly sometimes. Right now my monthly support is around 60%. My setup costs are almost completely paid for as well! This includes my training, visa, and plane ticket. So again, thank you so much for your support! Lord willing in a few short months I’ll be in Brazil!!!
       If you want to help support me, there is a link on the side bar where you can give online. PLEASE!!! Don't feel like you have to. BUT don't feel like you want to but can't give enough. Every bit helps, so even if its a dollar a month it helps!

  Wow its been some time since I posted on here so I'm sure everyone is DYING to know what is going on in my life. Surprisingly not a whole lot is going on. This summer I worked with Child Evangelism Fellowship here in Schuylkill county. I loved it! It was great being able to meet kids in the county and share the gospel with them. This summer made me really excited to get to Brazil in January and work with the kids down there. Speaking of Brazil, right now I am working at a place that builds roof trusses and taking online courses. What does that have to do with Brazil? Well I'm saving money so that I can pay for my online classes while I am in Brazil. These next few months are good for me to prepare by getting used to my online classes and save up some money. Just tonight I started Rosetta Stone, learning Portuguese!! I really enjoy the language so I'm pretty excited about it.
  Please keep praying for me as I get ready for January! I'm so excited to see what God has for me there. Also if you want to give towards my trip, feel free too! Don't feel like you have give a lot. If everyone on my mailing list gave $8 a month, that would cover my support! So whether it's $1 or $1,000,000 I appreciate it all! Here's a link to give if you would like too.   http://tinyurl.com/SupportChrisMcCarthy

      Sometimes I like to have some fun doing cool stuff. Here is a video of it. Watch it fast because its gonna be super popular and then you can say you new me before I was popular.