Posts Tagged ‘giving’

Only God …

Friday, November 20th, 2009

God was already working.

Before we even wrote to you Thursday … before we decided Wednesday to pay our daughter’s $1,1162 college bill … before she even came to us with her need … He already had an answer in the works.

Yesterday, a couple who knew nothing about our need gave $1,000 to our ministry. They started the process to give before we even knew we had the need.

We’re certainly very thankful to them. We’re thankful you prayed. And what’s really thrilling is what this says about the way God works to glorify His name.

Thanks for being with us on this sometimes scary, often thrilling adventure!

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Change her view of God

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

You don’t want to deny your kids opportunities, right?

That’s why it troubled me so much to have to tell my youngest daughter we couldn’t help her.

After a disastrous first year of college, she had to appeal to re-enroll this semester. Now she’s getting straight As. But Sunday she told us she needed $1,162 to pay college bills today, or she cannot return next semester.

Well, Julie and I have been working for years just to pay off bills from when our oldest daughter was seriously ill. Even with $24,000 in annual income, we’ve made progress on that for five years. But the last two months we went backwards, piling up more bills, mostly because our ministry costs have increased 400 percent in the last three years. We had to tell Brynna we couldn’t help.

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Dioso apotopibisiacuenetsi penaneconitsia-exanaenexa pibisiacuene pexanaewi

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Luis, Selmira and their two daughters

Luis, Selmira and their two daughters

Please don’t ever doubt that your gifts are important.

Luis was about to travel from his remote village in Colombia to the city to help missionary Mark Cain translate God’s Word into the language of his people, the Guahibos. A couple in the USA heard about that, and decided they would give so that Luis’ wife, Selmira, could go with him.

By American standards, (more…)

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A different kind of rich

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

You gotta figure God is trying to tell you something when you come across the same biblical truths in the course of a day.

Earlier this week my devotions took me to 1 Corinthians 1, where I read from one of my Bible translations, “Through Christ Jesus you have become rich in every way …. Therefore you don’t lack any gift ….”

And reading that, I thought about (more…)

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One project almost complete

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Thank you for praying about a couple of our ministry needs. So far, $730 has come in and another $500 has been pledged toward our next trip, leaving a need of $270.

We are also in need of $9,865 for ministry equipment before our next overseas trip, which could be as soon as this fall.

You can give online, or find out about other options >>

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