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<\/a>Did you realize that even though we live in a house we own and work in an office much like what many of you work in, we don’t get paid? Well, we don’t get paid by New Tribes Mission at least. We get “paid” by faithful and generous people and a few dedicated churches that are committed to supporting us financially on a monthly basis.<\/p>\nWhy would we do this?! Because people around the world are dying and going to hell and have been doing so for literally thousands of years. The gospel hasn’t reached everyone yet and we’ve devoted our lives to being a part of a team reaching those people. And honestly, there’s not a lot of people who will pay you to do that.<\/p>\n
There are some though. The folks I mentioned above are investing in our ministry to reach those unreached people. They are behind us and we are so grateful for that support.<\/p>\n
the difference between what we thought and reality<\/h3>\n
When we decided to move from Michigan to Florida to serve here at NTM’s home office, we prayed much, analyzed our family budget at that time, and felt that we could make ends meet even as home owners here in Florida, without a huge increase in support. We needed to see a small amount of additional support come in, but in general we thought\u00a0were going to be ok.<\/p>\n
Now that we’ve lived here for two years and have seen what expenses really look like as well as have purchased a much needed, newer, more reliable vehicle, we’re seeing that “making ends meet” is tougher than we originally thought. This is not us saying we’re in a crisis. We’re not in that place. God has never once left us in a lurch. And even now, between special gifts that come in and Bethany being able to do some side jobs from home, we’re staying above water.<\/p>\n
a wise plan looks like?<\/h3>\n
But, it’s not a wise plan to ignore the need for an increase in\u00a0regular<\/em>\u00a0monthly income. So we’re being transparent with you, our team of “backers” who are praying for us, and in some cases already giving to our ministry. We’re currently living on an average of $3800 (which includes health insurance for Bethany and I)\u00a0a month and as averages go, some months are lower than that.<\/p>\n Ideally, we would need to raise an additional $1000 a month to be at a place where I believe we should be.<\/p>\n So, with this in mind, we (1) need our existing team to consider\u00a0if the Lord would allow them to give more as well as (2) to see some new people\u00a0consider starting to give. And we need every single one of you to pray and ask the Lord to inject our lives with the hope that He brings when we trust Him. We also need you to ask\u00a0Him to prompt believers to start or increase their\u00a0support of\u00a0His work through us to the unreached.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n So, will you do one of those two things? We are already so thankful for the\u00a0support and prayers we have now and are hopeful that you’ll ask God what your part is on our “team”.<\/p>\n we don’t get “paid” Did you realize that even though we live in a house we own and work in an office much like what many of you work in, we don’t get paid? Well, we don’t get paid by New Tribes Mission at least. We get “paid” by faithful and generous people and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":782,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3197],"tags":[13702,448,5,637,83592],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","category-please-pray","tag-communications","tag-ethnos360","tag-missions","tag-new-tribes-mission","tag-personal","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}what can you do?<\/h3>\n
\nGive Now<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u00a0<\/span> and then \u00a0 Pray for us<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"