We will gladly receive and fully depend on God’s promises and provision, choosing to live simply so as to make the best use of God’s gifts.
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For several years we’ve reported something beautiful: every worker received their full allowance. This is God’s grace expressed through answering your prayers and providing through your giving. Thank you!
WMPL’s Handbook states, “We will make it our ambition to resist the elaboration of formal budgets. We do not feel it appropriate to limit our vision or curtail our activities on the basis of budgets, or estimates of pledged and calculated income.” (¶ 137) Our handbook reflects a conviction older than any of my spreadsheets: We are not governed by numbers in cells and formulas, rather, the Lord directs our work through prayer. But here’s a tension: not being limited by a budget is not the same as refusing to plan. Faith is not the absence of planning and projecting: faith is the posture in which we practice these activities.
So, what does faithful planning look like? We begin with Scripture: “The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.” (Prv 21:5 ESV) Planning can be a humble inventory of what the Lord has already provided and a reasonable anticipation of what ministry will likely require. We don’t ask you, our prayer partners, for pledges, and we’re not changing that. We do want to be intentional about how we envision the use of what God entrusts to us and communicate this to you.
Second, we translate gratitude into readiness. We thank God for his call on our workers and your prayers so that we can engage with some of the least-reached populations on earth. We want to focus on the opportunities in front of us, identify the most strategic for WMPL, utilize God’s gracious provision, and prayerfully anticipate the Lord’s harvest.
Third, we are asking every worker to sit down with their Regional Director to develop a 2026 Ministry Action Plan. This isn’t meant to be a bureaucratic exercise. It is a simple, prayerful answer to some basic stewardship questions, such as: What, specifically, is the Lord asking you to pursue in 2026? What might it take – people, time, travel, training, finances, etc. – to do that well? What might be trimmed to better use our resources? What outcomes might signal to press on, or to re-evaluate and make changes?
These stewardship plans are not intended to reduce our dependence on God. We resist being ruled by budgets. “We believe that God will provide all that we need for all that he has called us to do.” (¶ 141) However we also refuse to be sloppy with grace. “It may be that we have overestimated our need. Indeed, it may be that God does not estimate our ‘need’ to be needful at all.” (¶ 141)
Rejoice with us that the Lord continues to meet our needs for all that he has called us to do.
Pray…
- that our workers and Regional Directors will prepare thoughtful ministry action plans marked by faith and self-discipline.
- for our Finance Management Committee to make the good organizational decisions in our spending to advance the Kingdom of God.
GOD’S PROVISION – AUGUST 2025
| ALLOWANCE: Designated Support Funds: | $29,972 |
| General Support Fund: | $37,190 |
| Transfer from General Fund: | $0 |
| BENEFITS: Designated Support Funds: | $46,001 |
| Transfer from Estate Fund: | $0 |
| Donations to Benefits Fund: | $75 |
| Number of full-time worker units: | 25 |
| Worker Units with 100% allowance | 25 |
| Minimum allowance provided: | 100% |