AUGUST 2008 UPDATE

August, 2008

THANK YOU, AGAIN, GIVING FRIENDS!

We continue to bless God and thank each of you for your continued response to our missionaries’ needs which are supplied each month from the General Fund.

I CONTINUE TO RECEIVE CALLS FROM CHURCH PASTORS AND INDIVIDUAL GIVING FRIENDS THAT YOU ARE EITHER BEGINNING TO GIVE REGULAR MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND – OR ELSE THAT YOU ARE INCREASING YOUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS.

I assure you that your offerings not only supply the needs of the Lord’s saints, but they are also abounding in continual and increased THANKSGIVINGS to God for you – both by our missionaries and by us who administer their support.
[see 2 Corinthians 9.12-15 and Hebrews 6.10].

We need each of us to GIVE to meet this on-going challenge and make life-long commitments to faithfully give so our missionaries’ needs can be met.

THIS IS NOT A ONE-TIME NEED. A ‘BUMP’ WILL NOT SUFFICE TO MEET IT. The need is NOW...it is REAL...it is URGENT...and IT IS LONG-TERM.

“Now therefore, KNOW...and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO...”
1 Samuel 25.17

Here is what we all need to do together: WE NEED TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY TO GIVE AT LEAST $37,000.00 MONTHLY TO THE GENERAL FUND.

This $37,000.00 General Fund Offering per month will come close to bringing our General Fund standard committed monthly disbursements to a point of solvency.

General Fund monthly standard disbursements are those commitments we have made to our missionaries to provide for their essential services: salary, expense accounts, hospitalization, home office overhead, etc. We make these disbursements every month. They are ‘the cost of doing the Lord’s business.’

There are other General Fund committed disbursements also – but they are not disbursed every month. They are more occasional: furlough expenses, hospitalization deductible reimbursement, 4-year auto allowances, etc. These disbursements are made throughout the year as needed, but we don’t make them every month. It still amounts to thousands of dollars each year.

OUR IMMEDIATE GOAL IS TO MAKE OUR GENERAL FUND STANDARD MONTHLY DISBURSEMENTS SOLVENT WITH OUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS – and then the other General Fund disbursements which we give our missionaries periodically throughout the year can be supplied by the funds from our THANKSGIVING OFFERING.

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$100,000.00 THANKSGIVING OFFERING GOAL
PRAY about our Thanksgiving Offering – and the part the Lord Jesus Christ is leading you to give to His mission.

PURPOSE in your heart what you would like to give.

PREPARE your offering ahead of time by laying up proportions of your offering over the year so you won’t have to make it up all at once.

And then – PRAY again...and some more – and ask the Lord to supply the funds to you so you can give it back to Him. [See 2 Corinthians 9.5-11]