+ 7 - 13 | § ¶May-June Newsletter 2009
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
It's very exciting that my wife is 6 months along, because this is her first Mother's Day! However, I am still very happy to say; "Happy Mother's Day" to all you supporters/friends that have played a motherly role in my life and in the life's of many others (of course, including your own children)! Anyway, good job - for all your hard work, including carrying your babies for 9 months, as I know better now, that it is very difficult work! Blessings and thanks for all your work and mothering:)
Introducing Bi-monthly Newsletter
We have been doing a great deal of soul searching—as it seems to be part of a Christian’s life almost daily, but part of our soul-searching always includes missions. A few of our dreams were “smashed” when Tanya lost her job in April. We have been saving money for our mission and the land purchase, but now we need to scale back a bit. Therefore, we have decided to send out a Bi-Monthly Newsletter, instead of monthly. What does this mean?
It means that we have to trust God and our supporters more. We know it is work just to send a check, if you send it monthly, so we tried to make it easier with our self-addressed envelope that we include every month.
However, you can always convert to automatic withdrawal from Checking or Credit Card by going to: www.bgitulsa.org
Supporting—and the Land.
To support automatically, you will need to go the BGI website and then click on Ukraine on the Map or find MISSIONSUPPORT (Rick Schwendinger) in the ministry list on the right side—(or click here http://www.bgitulsa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=798&DataID=35>If you do this process once, it can save you a lot of time and stamps in the future and you won’t have to worry about receiving a “self-addressed envelope” every month. Our newsletter costs about 100 dollars a month to send out; therefore this will help keep costs down to save for the mission.
Last year, we spent about $10,000 out of our pocket for ministry expenses, with travel, preaching, newsletters, office supplies, etc. This year we will spend the same or more, as we are traveling farther and farther to churches to raise support. However, we managed to save enough to purchase that 25 by 100 meters of land 40km from Kiev on a nice road, from our personal income (not including the land money given to use). However, we need to use expense money from the General/moving fund 4 travel. Keep praying!
Current prayers!
Pray for our government/leaders!
Prayers for Roy Shambow—healing!
Prayers for supporter’s successes!
Prayers for Pastors and churches to grow in Mission’s giving!
Prayers for ShopWurld, its success and that Charities prosper!
Prayers for orphans and orphanages.
Prayers for Services in May/June—driving to Kansas City and Maryland. Possible trip to Tulsa, too.
Prayers 4 investments and land!