Thrivent Financial recently announced that they will be discontinuing the GivingPlus program and will be replacing it with a program called Thrivent Choice. GivingPlus will continue to operate through the end of 2009. GivingPlus is a supplementary gift program available … (read more)
“The Mission’s financial policy believes and assumes that God is faithful, and may be counted upon to provide in every way, both spiritually and materially, for the advancement of his kingdom’s work around the world” Mission Handbook, 113 Let me … (read more)
At the end of February two of our long-term missionaries to Pakistan left the field and have returned to life in the United States. Both of these women have faithfully served at Christian Hospital Tank (CHT) for many years. Jan … (read more)
“How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?” – Romans 10:14 Recently my wife and I were … (read more)
"And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19) For the World Mission Prayer League, 2008 has been a year of financial extremes thus far. At the end of January I … (read more)
Working in the business office is encouraging in many different ways. There is the contact I have with our missionaries. Even when finances are especially tight, I am amazed to see how many of my colleagues are unfazed. They do … (read more)
Back in December I wrote a little bit about the recession and the effect that it might have on the World Mission Prayer League. At that time there was quite a lot of fear concerning the future. It was on … (read more)
The month of May ended with the general fund $38,897 short of the amount needed to pay all of our missionaries 100 percent of the target allowance. We used $20,860 from the estate fund to supplement allowances. Sixteen of our … (read more)
David McCullough – a Pulitzer Prize winning author who has written several best selling historical and biographical books such as Truman, John Adams, 1776, and The Johnstown Flood – did not set out from an early age to become an … (read more)
And they woke him and said to him, Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, Peace! Be still! And the wind ceased, and there was a … (read more)