Monday, March 16, 2015

The Numbers Game

Since our departure in July 2014 for our full time fundraising trip, there have been a couple of numbers floating around.

5000
8000
6500
4300
4600

See, originally, we thought we were going to go to a road allocation which would require less in monthly costs (5000) but more in one-time costs (36,000). Then we were asked to consider a helicopter allocation, which, I was last told, would bring our budget up significantly (8000). But then we found it was less than we had thought (6500)! Our one-time expenses were raised, enabling us to remove them from the funds we needed (4300). Excel hates me (4600).

 So, right now we're aiming to have $4,600/month raised. And we presently have *coming in* 54% of that! We believe that there is more that's working it's way through the pipelines now, but we try not to count our chickens until they hatch.

We need 90% of our budget to be raised before we can buy plane tickets. We're getting so close!
We're still shooting to leave in May, which is 6 weeks away!! We're planning on leaving in September. 

But we still have a little ways to go.
Please pray and see if God's got you in mind to join our support team!
A gift of $46/month will bring us up a whole percent!


As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

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