I Love Fridays!!!!!!

I am sure your first thought is "Of course, who doesn't love Fridays?" But my love for Fridays has taken on a new meaning as we have been part of MAF and began building our support team. Each Friday we receive a report from the MAF office of the donors that have come along side us in the week and have given support to our out going or monthly fund. Sometimes it is just one new supporter, sometimes more. But each Friday I am reminded anew of God's faithfulness in bringing people along side us in this ministry. Throughout the week we share our story and the exciting ministry that MAF does around the world. Then on Friday, He is faithful to show us again, how He is using our words and our time to encourage people to be a part of this ministry with us. As Psalms 36:5 states: "Your loving kindness, O Lord, extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness reaches to the skies." and Psalm 100:5 "For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations." He truly is a faithful God and we are privileged to serve and honour Him in all we do and say. ~~~ Sarah

Not a whole lot has changed since my last post, we've had a couple more co-pilot coffees which were very encouraging. However, there are a few things that I wanted to post about that are up-coming sometime in the not too distant future.
  
     First we are going to begin an online campaign that will hopefully bring in more supporters with whom our most common connection is online (facebook mostly).  We're still trying to come up with a catchy name for this campaign, any suggestions are welcome.
   
     Secondly, we are planning a larger than normal co-pilot coffee designed to catch  anyone within our local Church (Forest Baptist) that may be interested in our journey and what we're doing, with whom we haven't been able to connect with personally yet. Sarah and I are most comfortable with the smaller (8-10ish people), but we REALLY want to make sure that NO ONE feels overlooked or missed. So we have decided to hold this larger coffee night in a larger venue.... the fellowship hall at Forest Baptist. Here we hope that ALL feel welcome and can come and get excited with us about what God is doing with MAF.
    
     Thirdly, we are in the planning stages of doing a community wide (Forest area) event. A more formal dessert night actually put on by MAF (date yet to be determined, end of March Break?). For this we hope to contact other local Churches, put an ad in the local paper, posters in shops, etc. So if you're in the Forest area, keep a lookout for these notices, spread the word, and please attend if you can. If you're reading this and you're not from the Forest area, we are always itching to meet with others in other communities.... yes we'll come to you! MAF is up to some exciting things, we're excited to be a part of it.... we're looking for others to get excited with us.

     And THAT is what is on our minds for the near future. Till our next post... Nathan and Family out.

Hope everyone has had a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.... Welcome to twenty fourteen!
Our holidays have been extremely busy this year, things are finally beginning to level out. We have had our first co-pilot coffee (basically a dessert/coffee get together).  It was a great evening, and was a good first run at our "presentation". It also confirmed why God has called me to MAF as a mechanic, and not PR :) However, despite my ineptitudes, God has continued to provide new members to our ministry partnership team. Thank you to all who have joined us so far. We have now hit 5% on our monthly support and 11% of our outgoing amount. We will be having another (probably small) dessert night tomorrow night, Jan 3/2014 at 6:30 at our house... all are welcome.