In 2020, as a family, we set a goal of raising an ADDITIONAL $2020 a month of recurring monthly financial support. It was a big year of campaigning everywhere and we were trusting the Lord to provide what was needed for us to live and work sustainably.
Well, 2020 ended up being quite a year and because of the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic, we weren’t able to do much of what we planned to work towards that goal. We had travel plans canceled, a fund-raising dinner indefinitely postponed, and in general, had to re-think our plan.
BUT GOD (as is always the case) worked in unexpected ways in spite of what we had to cancel or not do, and added significantly to our monthly support team and we finished the year having reached a little over $1300, or around 64% of that goal. Sweet, right?!
Now as we’re a few years from 2020, our monthly financial needs have increased due to recent year’s inflation as well as additional school tuition for our children and some other needs of theirs, and so realistically our new goal needs to be more like $3000 a month. That means that we’re meeting 43% of our goal (Oct 2022).
We don’t like to talk about money much less talk about amounts of it, but we’ve found that God uses support raising to also raise and strengthen our faith. So here we are. Our situation is very similar to that of most missionary workers around the world. We trust God to bring and help us build relationships with His people, believers from all over and at times, whole local churches, who will regularly give to meet our monthly and yearly financial needs. We do not receive a salary from the organization that we are members of. The gifts given to meet our needs are managed by Ethnos360 and after taxes, insurance and incidentals are taken out, the gifts are passed on to us as monthly support which is what we live on.
So, if you’re one of those ones that God is leading to start giving, we’d love to hear from you. You can send us an email
You’re not just providing for our monthly, weekly and daily needs, you’re first, giving of your heart to God and we trust Him to provide for us. If he’s not leading you to give to us, we are 100% ok with that. But, if He is leading you to give (or you just want to), we welcome you to join us as we serve the Lord working to see the unreached people groups of this world, reached and having a chance to know and love their Creator.