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| Our family of five |
Crunch time! OK, here’s how things stand with us: We have
raised almost half of our monthly support, which leaves –naturally – the other
half of our support to raise. A nice round number to use is $2000 per month in regular, pledged support – that’s what we still need. We have gotten a number of one-time
gifts and multiple donations from monthly givers, but the most important number
we’re tracking is monthly pledges.
We have had the opportunity to speak to a couple of our
home-church Sunday School classes in the past couple of weeks and have another
engagement lined up for this Sunday. We’d love to say that we gained several
more monthly supporters from each, but if we did, we don’t know about them. We
have another one lined up, then less than a month and a half to raise the rest
of our support. If that doesn’t happen…
Before we talk about Plan B, let’s talk about August 10th.
On that day, the first tuition payment to Ginny’s school is due, so we’re using
August 10th as a decision deadline for ourselves. The question isn’t
if we will have enough money to make the payment (we do), the question is if we
will have enough support raised to make the physical move to the Bronx in time
for school to start. If we don’t, then we won’t make the payment because we won’t
be moving this Fall.
Plan B is pretty simple: Don’t move to the Bronx yet.
Hold off for at least a semester, perhaps a year, until we can raise our full
support. We would remain at our church and job and keep Ginny in her current
elementary school for 1st grade. We don’t know how delaying a year
would affect Ginny’s spot in the school in New York – that’s something we still
need to find out, though we imagine she’d simply have to apply again in the same
way she did this year. Let us say this, though: Even if we do resort to Plan B
and don’t move this Fall, we will still move to the Bronx, just at a
later date. We believe strongly that God has called us there, so we’re
going. We just don’t know when.
We’re torn about which is more daunting to us
at this point: staying or going. It’s kind of a toss-up right now. Raising another
$2000 a month and then moving in a whirlwind to the Bronx would be absolutely
insane. But then, the thought of staying for another semester or year after all
the buildup of the last several months seems just as formidable.
PLEASE PRAY. We need more supporters! We need more faith and
trust and belief and boldness and…. The list goes on and on.
PLEASE GIVE. We need YOU! We ask you to pray about coming on
our support team. We need all the prayer support and financial support we can
get! Simply email us and we can get you all the information you need.
Thank you for the support, love, and encouragement you have
already given! It means the world to us.
