Hi Mike,
My name is Tara Dunn, and I was one of the mission trip scholarship recipients this year. I just wanted to say thank you so much for enabling me to help lead a trip of Freshman students to Jamaica this spring break. I know that I am not a usual candidate for this mission trip scholarship since I am 29 years old and an associate director at Wesley:). However, I cannot express enough how much I appreciated that you were willing to say yes and enable me to help lead this trip. Since I raise a good portion of my salary and my husband and I are in the midst of adopting our first child from Ethiopia, I knew it would only be possible for me to go on this trip if the Lord provided miraculously…which he did through you and Michael’s Ultimate Mission! Not only did I get to know students, but I was blessed to see their hearts completely changed as they left their comfort zones (many for the first time) and had their eyes opened to see God’s heart for the nations. Just one example was when the staff was ministering to the students on the last evening and I was able to pray for a student who had always dreamed of being a missionary. She had given up on that dream a year or so ago, but as we prayed, God resurrected her dream and I will never forget her tears of joy as she finally embraced her calling to be a missionary and allowed herself to dream again. I am so excited to continue to get to know these students and help them discover the role God is calling them to play in fulfilling the Great Commission. I hope you enjoy a few of these pictures. The first is of our team, the second is of me and a beautiful Jamaican girl and the third is of me with two freshmen whom I got to know well and am excited to continue to pour into. Again, thank you!!!
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Tara Dunn
Director of Prayer
UGA Wesley Foundation
1196 South Lumpkin Street
Athens, GA 30605
706.353.1408