JULY REPORT

THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
We thank God for every one of you who gives the offerings which supply the financial necessities our missionaries have to conduct their daily ministries. Humanly speaking, you are the means by which they continue to serve.

And, ESPECIALLY TO YOU WHO CONTRIBUTE MONTHLY TO OUR GENERAL FUND! The General Fund is the “common storehouse” from which we disburse the monthly maintenance commitments we have made to our missionaries.

THE ‘ESSENTIAL MONTHLY TRANSACTIONS’ [EMT or Tier 1 General Fund Disbursements] WE MAKE TO OUR MISSIONARIES WITHOUT FAIL EACH MONTH [as the Lord provides through you] CONTINUE TO EXCEED $42,000.00 PER MONTH.

{These standard commitments and disbursements are besides the other more periodical commitments/disbursements we make to them during the year AS NEEDED [PRN or Tier 2 General Fund Disbursements]. FOR EXAMPLE: we will disburse about $17,000.00 over the course of 2010 for Furlough Transportation expenses for our missionaries who are due scheduled furloughs.}

Included in these standard ESSENTIAL MONTHLY TRANSACTIONS are:
$20,426.00 for salaries
$10,950.00 for standard monthly expense accounts for housing and ministry expenses
$1662.50 to publish their newsletters and reports in these Mission Sheets
$9245.94 for hospitalization premiums.

THAT AMOUNT FOR HOSPITALIZATION PREMIUMS REFLECTS A RECENT 10% INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR – AND WE ARE PLANNING TO ADD ANOTHER ONE OF OUR FAMILIES TO THE PLAN WHICH WILL INCREASE THE MONTHLY PREMIUMS BY ANOTHER $1000 PER MONTH. That means we will be paying more than $10,000 every month just for hospitalization premiums.

This month’s General Fund offerings are down from previous months’ offerings. This month, General Fund offerings are a little less than $25,000.00.

If we don’t have enough funds remaining in last year’s Thanksgiving Offering to supply that deficit and still hold us over to the end of the year, we will need to begin making deductions in the missionaries’ monthly deposits to meet that monthly deficit in the upcoming months.

WE NEVER WANT TO OVERLOOK THE FACT THAT REGARDLESS OF THE CONTINUOUSLY ONGOING NEED TO INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS – YOU WHO DO GIVE...ARE GIVING TO PROVIDE WHAT WE HAVE! And, for that, we bless God and thank you!

We are always calling on God, trusting God, and expecting God to provide the needs His servants have – but we also want to keep you informed how each of us can respond to His grace by giving back to Him! Grace to you all!