We have been praying for 23 days now that God would increase support from 30% to 50% and our prayer team by 20 people.  It’s been an interesting few weeks.  I prayed earlier in the year that God would increase my faith.  I knew that would mean He’d give me something to have to really trust Him about and really believe Him that He was going to do what He said He would do.  So, it’s March 23 and instead of God increasing support on March 2, we’re still waiting to see how He’s going to increase it.  A 20% increase is $1767/month.  As of right now, we know of $67/month in new support, which put us to 31%.  And we’ve had 3 people ask to be added to our prayer team.  We still have 8 days left in March and we know that because of how long it can take from when a pledge is mailed to when we find out about it, it could be a couple weeks into April before we really know what God has done with this month.  It’s definitely taking a lot of faith and a lot of trust in God to see Him through on this.

As I was praying the other day God reminded that I’m not the only one in this process who has to trust Him and have faith, those He’s calling to support us do as well.  Just as I’m walking in faith that He is going to provide the funds, those who are giving the funds to Him for this ministry have to trust Him and have faith that He’ll provide for their needs and their families along with what He’s asking them to give.  We very much believe that going to the mission field is not just about us following God’s calling, but about a whole group of people and churches responding to God’s call to take the Gospel to Asia.  While we will be the ones actually living and working in Asia, every person who supports us through prayer or finances is very much a part of the work.  We can’t do it without those people and we’re thankful for them.  So we will continue trusting God with this plan He’s called us to pray for and having faith in Him that He will bring the right people to join with us.