Hello, my name is Savannah Stuart (the one in the middle with a beam of sunlight across my face :). I am a second-semester sophomore at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, CO. My major is Kinesiology and Exercise Science, and my goal is to finish out this year without having to increase my debt then go on to share my gift with others when I graduate. For that reason, I ask for your time in pray during this season. If through your prayers, you feel God leading you to donate, I want to thank you in advance!

Since the beginning of coming to school here, months after starting my freshman year, I began to struggle financially with the overwhelming school payments. Yet all along, I have felt a nudge to continue coming back, even when I don't want to admit it. Through the striving of working long hours on campus, planning out my homework schedule rigorously, taking the opportunity for lower cost housing, and beginning to take on another job off campus, yet still not being able to pay for school; how could this possibly be God's plan? Why is He continuing to pull me back here?

Of such questions, I am not sure. All I know is He has provided for me in the past in ways I hadn't expected, in ways I hadn't even wanted. Reaching out to my parents to let them know that I wouldn't be able to pay for school the rest of the semester and asking them to take on the rest, was something I never wanted to do. Yet in the process, my relationship with my parents, especially my dad, grew in a way that I hadn't expected. I was able to witness the saving and caring love of the Father through my own father.

Was making a GoFundMe in order to reach people with my story and request in prayer and donation something I saw myself doing? No, not exactly. But I can see that even through this, it is the Lord providing. He is teaching me how to lean on others when times get hard. He is teaching me that He can call me into things that I could never do on my own, I need others to support me. He is teaching me that times may get hard and no matter how hard I fight on my own, He has given me an enormous community to depend on.

Thank you to all my friends and family for your support thus far and for the ways I know you will be there in the future! Again, I first ask for your time in prayer and if by the leading of God you feel inclined to donate, there is a recommendation of $50, or WHATEVER you can give. I could not ask for a greater gift than your prayers lifted to our Father. And if that is exactly what you can give, I ask that you pray that God will provide me with wisdom in order to follow His will. I ask that you also pray that I will have the patience and the peace to be able to watch and listen for his voice. Finally, I ask that you pray that God will continue to provide me with opportunities to use the gifts He's enabled me with for His purpose. God is doing wonderful things in my life and yours! Thank you :)

If you would like to know any more about my story so far, feel free to reach out with any questions!