We are currently over 68% of our committed monthly support, we are just 7% away from getting to our (minimum) required committed monthly support of 75%. That means we need about 4 more fingers (Fingers is a reference to the past couple of blogs). We have about 7 weeks to go until we leave. We need our paperwork in order to finish the official en-route process in addition to the remaining support. So when you look at your hand, think of us. Just four more fingers ($100/mo./ea.)! And when you look at the calendar think of us (7 days a week): 7% more in just 7 weeks!
All of this is very surreal to us, we never thought our support would come in by this time. We remember the conversation we had with our Pastor when we started this endeavor, he said it would take us almost 30-36 months…we looked at him and said we are praying for 18 months…he said that we had greater faith than him… now God said, I WILL raise your support in 12 months, get ready! Truly everything has been on His timing and has been done by people He has moved to partner with us. Our God has continued to humble us in great ways. We are excited, anxious, and overwhelmed with the things that have to fall into place by the time we leave.
-PRAY FOR OUR PAPERWORK TO BE PROCESSED IN TIME.
-PRAY FOR THE REMAINDER OF OUR SUPPORT TO COME IN, and whatever support we receive over the 75% we see as a total gift and blessing from God because we never planned to be at 100% support.
SAVE the DATE!
- On January 4th, 2015 we plan on having a “send off” service in New Jersey at Calvary so we can say good-bye to our east coast family.
- On January 14th, 2015 we plan on having our commissioning service along with Seth’s ordination service at our home church in Pennsylvania, Harvest.
We will give the specifics when the time comes closer, but we want to give everyone a date to put on their calendars. PLEASE NOTE: EVERYONE IS INVITED to these services.
Keep the tally of fun facts about us on deputation (we have):
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- Slept in over 95 beds
- Visited 19 states
- Put 40K on our car, which now has 203K.
- Put over 11K on Seth’s mom’s car.
- Visited 2 countries (not counting Seth’s missions trip).
- Seth has skipped over 15 nights of sleep due to driving.
- Connected with over 55 churches
- Been in the car for 39 days (hours totaled thus far).
Your feet to the unreached of PNG, Seth and Nicole Stokes.
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