And now for something completely different.
I’m going to break away from all of my normal postings here for a minute of your time because there’s something very important happening in my family right now.
Me and my wife (Mary) work for a missions organization called Pioneers who sends out missionaries all over the world. We work in the home office, but there are people in a bunch of different countries and their goal is church planting movements. They work in coffee shops, as teachers, in the jungles, and whatever they can do to meet people and introduce them to Christ.
I work with the Communications team working with printing jobs and newsletters and such, and my wife has been working in the Finance department for 4 years now, and has been offered a new opportunity. Pioneers has short-term missions opportunities for college-age, young adults called The Edge. In 2006, my wife was involved with a 2-month trip that went to India (a trip which as soon as she got back I proposed!). That “short” trip really changed my wife for the best. She came back with a renewed spirit, a new outlook on God’s word, and an excitement for missions!
In November(ish), a job on The Edge coordinating team opened up, and she’s been offered it. This would be a position helping to setup these young adults for their short-term, summer mission trips. Coordinating with our field missionaries to get places for them to sleep and all of their paperwork and all of the other details that go into these trips. She’s extremely excited about it, but she needs your help!
Yep, you probably guessed it, you’ve heard all the key words to set you up for this, but here it is: She has to raise support for this position. The support will include her salary and any travel that she may need to do as they go around to different colleges and occasionally overseas.
She’s been fighting this bear for a while now, but she needs your help! She’s currently at 28% and needs to be at 75% by June 1st so that she can start for the summer! They need her in the position, but don’t have the funds for her to make the move! There are over 150 young adults scheduled to make an Edge trip this summer and her help is vital to the mission.
Would you prayerfully consider supporting my wife in her efforts? Any little bit helps to get her there, and prayers are accepted as well (but they don’t necessarily move up the percentage… ha!)!
If you’re ready to give and only want to click one link from here because money is burning a hole in your virtual wallet, you could check out: http://pioneers.org/give and Mary’s account number is 100882.
If you’d like to know more about her, what she’s doing, how to give, and everything, I’ve convinced her to start a blog. Mary’s Musings.
Don’t worry, she’s cool. And, if you support, you can sign up for an monthly email newsletter and/or quarterly print newsletter, and get a thank you card!
