Tracking our Monthly Ministry Support

We have been so blessed and encouraged by all of those who have partnered with us in this ministry.  Our one time, out going fund is up to 90%, which is so amazing.  Thank you so much for coming along side of us with your gifts for our ministry with MAF.  We are also excited to see how God is at work in providing for our monthly support as well.  Recently we came up with a new way to track our monthly ministry support progress and encourage our supporters as well.

$7200, that is the amount it takes to support the average MAF family for a month while overseas (and we are as average as they come J).  Divide this by a rough average of 30 days in a month and it takes $240 to support us for one day. What does this mean? It means that for every $20/month of support for our MAF ministry that we receive ($20 x 12 months = $240), we can “mark off” one day of the year as having been “supported”. When 365 days are marked off, our MAF ministry is fully supported and we can head into the field.

Part of the relationship with our supporters is prayer, they pray for us and we pray for them. So as someone commits to support us in our ministry with MAF, one (or more) of these stickers will symbolically represent the day they are supporting us, and the day we will be praying for them.  Most people like to choose birthdays, anniversaries, and other special or significant days, the options are endless…. well up to 365 anyways J. The number of stickers on the calendar is fairly accurate but most of them are placed there arbitrarily because they represent supporters before we developed the calendar, so if you are a supporter, one of these stickers represents you. We’d encourage you to pick a day and let us know, we’ll be happy to move the sticker and add that day to our prayer list.  We will be praying for every financial and prayer supporter whether you give us a day or not, so you’d might as well give us a day that’s important to you ;)