And our goal has...

WE SERVE AN AWESOME GOD

who has worked through some amazingly faithful people.

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January 23, 2025

 

I am left in awe of the way in which the Lord has moved so many, that in two short months we have exceeded our financial goal of $11,000. The current figure is an amazing $11,316.50 (including a $1836.50 balance from 2024). And that is against a projected budget of:

 

 

BUDGETED EXPENSES:	EST. COST	ACTUAL
MALAWI: Member Care African Bible College Staff
Feb Round Trip Airfare (for 2) to Lilongwe, Malawi @ $1900/person	$3,800.00	$3,315.42
Miscellaneous/Unanticipated 10%	$380.00	$159.84
Sept Round Trip Airfare (for 2) to Lilongwe, Malawi @ $1900/person	$3,800.00
Miscellaneous/Unanticipated 10%	$380.00
LIBERIA: Member Care African Bible College Staff
Round Trip Airfare (for 1) to Monrovia, Liberia (1 trip)	$2,000.00
Incountry bus Monrovia to Yekepa (round trip)	$200.00
Miscellaneous/Unanticipated 10%	$440.00
	$11,000.00	$3,475.26

Thanks to those who have so faithfully and prayerfully sacrificed on any number of levels to participate in this ministry of care for missionaries.

So far we have been able to come in under the budgeted amount which may allow us to schedule yet another trip to Thailand to pick up where we left off there. (A follow up trip to Thailand will also allow us to begin to plan for a community mission trip to Thailand and perhaps Cambodia in 2026.) And any additional funds received will go toward that - or any emergency trip which may arise.

As excited as we are, excitement also seems to be building amongst the members of the Holliday Alliance congregation where Glen serves as Mission Coordinator, as well as amongst our increasing contacts and support from congregations like the Shallow Well Church in Sanford, NC, and its members.

Theses trips allow us to visit with and care for missionaries, in the countries we visit, who are brought to our attention. So far that has included a dozen different agencies. (Does your church have a missionary they’d like to have visited? Drop us a line and give us some details and we’ll see what we can do to make that happen.)

The bottom line is that, at this point we see this as an ongoing project which will occupy significant amounts of time, travel,and ongoing support. There are, in some circles, concerns about short term engagements such as these, but hard statistics and anecdotal observations demonstrate clearly that outside engagement of a consistent recurring short term nature can have tremendous positive results when done well. See Short Term Positives Here

It is our hope and prayer that lives will be changed, not just those whose lives will be immediately impacted through member care services, but those who participate through supporting that kind of effort. Not all are called. Not all can go. Not all should go. But those who don’t can easily facilitate that going for those so called. And we are over the moon thankful for folks like you who make it a point to steward the resources God has provided to help others hear the good news, be nurtured in the truth, and become mature believers and world-changers themselves.

Carol and I leave in less than three weeks. We’re excited and hope you are too!

In Him Who is Able!

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