We’ve been looking at what the next few months hold and we’re at another make or break point in raising support.  We leave for training July 24 and will be gone about a month (we’re so thankful to have a friend house sitting!).  We are hoping and praying to be on a plane right around October 1.  In order for that to happen, we need to have the pretty light red bar at 100% by July 18.  Our lease is up September 30 and we need to give 60-days notice on our townhouse, which means we need to be able to do that before we leave for training.  We also need to buy plane tickets and get our shipping set up before training.  Leaving those things to after training doesn’t afford us the time we would need to get everything done to be out by the 1st of October.  Here’s the timeline we’re looking at:

1. Be at 100% of our monthly budget needs (I’ll explain this in a minute) by July 18.
2. Leave for training July 24 and get back some time during the last week of August.
3. Mid-September send our shipment out so that we get it by Christmas.  We are only shipping a few pieces of furniture and some personal items, so we won’t be in an empty house for months, but we would still like some of those personal things by Christmas time.
4. Be on a plane sometime around October 1 for our move.

So, here’s what needs to come in support-wise to make that happen.  You may notice that the bar graphs to the right have changed.  One is now at 86% and the other is at 0%.  Up to this point we have put everything we need to raise for ongoing support all into one category, but we’re breaking it up now. The graph at 86% reflects our monthly budget needs (personal/housing allowances, health insurance, retirement, travel reserve, etc.)  These expenses are a set amount every month and need to be paid at that amount every month.  We need to be at or REALLY close to this amount ($5724/month of which we have $4905.01 pledged) in order to go forward with all the moving related things mentioned above. That means that we need to see another $818.99 in new support come in by July 18, which is 45 days away.  We need to average about $140 a week in new support for the next six weeks to make that goal.

The other graph is for our ministry expenses and emergencies, which is $834/month  We do not have a set amount that gets doled out each month in relation to this, it’s more designed to build up and when we need the funds we can use them.  It covers everything from newsletters to plane tickets home if we have a family emergency to filling in if a supporter loses a job or is unable to continue supporting us for some reason.  While our monthly budget has a travel reserve line item, that really only covers enough for plane tickets back to the US when we come for Home Missionary Assignment.  If we have a family emergency we can use the funds built up in our account from the emergency and ministry expenses funds coming in every month.  We cannot count pledges towards this amount until we’ve reached 100% of the monthly budget needs explained above.So, that leaves us with a total of over $1600/month in support to still raise and about half of that needs to come in within the next six weeks.

This is where the impassioned plea comes in.  We feel a deep need to take the Gospel to people in Asia, especially those who are in areas where little to no access exists.  We feel that God has called us to HCJB Global and the radio station planting ministry in Asia-Pacific.  He has given us specific gifts and talents that we know He will use there to make Himself known throughout the nations.  Right now what is really holding us back is raising the support for HCJB Global to cover all the expenses listed above.  We’re not doing this to get rich or to live somewhere cool or for our own glory.  If we were doing something for our glory, to live somewhere cool, and to get rich, we’d pick an easier place to live, a job that will actually make us rich that we didn’t have to raise support for, and find something that would actually make us famous.  Our concern is the people who are living every day in separation from the God who created them and Who wants to be in relationship with them.  Will you join us on this journey?  Will you help make it possible for more people in Asia to know the God you have the opportunity to know?

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