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MISS NEW YORK USA

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Hi,
I wouldn’t normally ask this but I really need help to fulfill this mission I feel the Lord put on my heart. When I was a little girl I overcame heart surgery i only surrived because of Jesus My Grandmother prayed the whole time I was in surgery that i would come out alive and well a couple of years later she prophesied "You’re going to be Miss America.” My dream ended there like many others in my family, I went into puberty and gained a lot of weight. I soon started dieting and working out and lost the weight but I was not living for the lord. In 2016  the lord decided to pick up where he left off and continue this work that he had fr me. In 2016 I heard there was a local pageant in Tioga County that paid 1,500 dollars for first place. I had never been in one, so not really knowing what I was doing, I entered it wearing a bridesmaid dress and flip flops from Boscov’s. I didn’t even make the top three pick. I learned quickly about pageant shoes and the right dress and cocktail dresses and what kind of bathing suit that particular pageant required. I went to Tom’s and got a 400 dollar dress. After talking with Tom, he sponsored me and took $100.00 off the dress. I won a Queen title. Then I started winning more and more. Miss New York State USA pageant, which pays 80,000 for first place winner, saw my picture and asked me to apply. Then I won New York Miss Legacy simply by sending them 3 pictures. I won $500.00 and a crown and sash, the most professional ones I’d ever won. But I started to find out that Christians don’t understand pageants. A Pastor’s wife said right to my face that it was “Vanity.” I was crushed! I am not a vain person. I started to find out that this pageant thing could be a ministry. The girl who beat me when I wore the flip flops the first time was a born-again Christian and three of us actually prayed before the pageant! As I started winning, I was always given the opportunity to speak and I would always speak about Jesus, how I love going to church and that I do outreach and want to start my own special needs pageant. But then, I started to wonder, “Is this really God?” Is it vanity like that lady from the holiness church said, where they wore their hair up in buns and long dresses down to their ankles? If this isn’t the Lord’s will I don’t want to do it.” Then I heard about a camp meeting in Virginia where the Lord does miracles and signs and wonders. I went and stayed there for a few days. It was free, rooms are free, meals are provided free of charge and at the end of the service these ministers all have the gift of prophecy and they would tell you things they could never possibly know themselves. I went up for prayer on the second to last day there and the Pastor from another state prayed over me. He said “The Lord has spoken something for you to do, even when you were a child to do this thing for Him. Yes it is of him, walk through the doors he has begun to open for you.” I fell backwards, which I later found out they called being “slain in the spirit.” The Lord also healed my bunions supernaturally and it was no longer painful for me to walk in heels. I got a miracle. And now I knew! This is my ministry. This is the Lord having me do this and it is definitely His will and His path for my life. So He has given me this boldness to ask for help. His word says, “You have not because you ask not,” and “Ask and it shall be given to you.” And when people give, it shall be “given to them a good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over shall men give unto their bosom.”
My need is great, that I have to have 1,500 dollars for the entrance fee to win the Miss New York USA pageant in Westchester, plus the means to stay there, food, the trip there and everything. Plus a winning dress and accessories. This is not vanity. This is of the Lord. My ability to reach souls has been so increased, especially since camp meeting and I feel I am called to be an Evangelist. I believe your giving to me is the same as your giving to “Samaritan’s Purse” or in the offering at a Joyce Meyer Women’s Convention. If you could bless me with a gift of whatever you feel comfortable with you will have your name put in Miss New York USA's professonal magazine and you will be announced on the commercial of their television show, which will be aired on the Fox network. This is not a small thing and we will reap souls in this adventure together. I believe you and I will see people in Heaven that we don’t even know and we will inquire of them and they will tell us, I received Christ through that pageant you spoke at in Westchester, or when you prayed for me in White Plains. We never know how God is using us. So thank you for your help.

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Kathryn Fitzgerald
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Binghamton, NY

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