As You Pray This Week
Dear Praying Friends,
Please pray for the Cannon Beach mini-conference that starts next week on February 28. Mini-conferences are a special time for our missionaries to “come away” for fellowship and renewal. In contrast to the staff conferences that we used to have, mini-conferences are smaller, more regional, shorter, and more informal. The Cannon Beach mini-conference is one of the first ones this season – several others will occur throughout the country. Pray that the Lord will refresh and renew our missionaries.
Pray for great wisdom for our Pension Committee as it meets this week. Village Missionaries receive a pension of $12 per month per year of service. Although this is a small amount, with the decline in earnings from investments, Village Missions has to pay about $250,000 into the pension fund each year to fund the plan.
Please continue to pray for our finances. For July-January we are $120,408 in deficit in operations and $125,196 in deficit in our self-funded health plan. Pray that people would realize that when they give to Village Missions they give to Village Missionaries! 85% of our operating cost goes directly to missionaries, retirement apartments for missionaries, or the District Representative ministry. Our 12% administrative cost goes toward serving missionaries and our 3% fundraising cost benefits our missionaries as well! We have seen God move mightily in the past and He is leading several couples our way, so pray that God will move people to give!
Recently Brian and Carole Wechsler had the privilege of attending a Valentine’s Party at our nearby field in Blodgett, OR. If you would like to see pictures of this party please click here.
Thank you for praying!
