Sunday, September 11, 2005

Deputation in Maine

Although we spent most of our time in Maine at Shannon's parents' place (shown here) doing yard work and homeschooling the girls, we did manage to squeeze in visits to four churches. We had a nice prayer meeting in Andover at Calvary Bible Church where we were able to share what God was doing in our lives. On Thursday, we went to the missions prayer meeting at our home church in Mexico, Maine, First Baptist. They also gave me an opportunity to share brifly what God was doing in our lives. Then on Sunday we visited Beans Corner Baptist Church and spoke to the missions committee chairman in the morning. Finally, we ended the day in West Buxton at Trent Boyd's church where I was given the whole service to speak.

Our official support level now stands at 25% based on the amount of monthly support that has been pledged from individuals and families. Keep in mind that this is 25% of the $2000 per month we are supposed to raise above and beyond what PACA is going to cover. This figure, so far, does not include financial support from any churches. We are quite encouraged by the financial progress we've seen. We feel quite confident that the churches will help us out between $500-$1000 per month which would put us in the 50-75% range. However, it takes churches a lot longer to commit to a dollar figure since they have to go through committees and often church votes before money can be committed.