A Year of Transition: Please, Please help us!

   In II Corinthians 8, the apostle Paul, after having commended the brethren for financially beginning a good work (v.10), then said, “But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.”

As I sit and write this article, I am simultaneously thanking God for His goodness in allowing me to be involved in the Open Door Ministry. I am also in deep appreciation of all the supporters, both individually and congregationally, who have shown enough faith and trust in me to specifically contribute to us toward the Lord’s cause. I am even more intensely thankful for the Walnut Street church of Christ in Dickson, Tennessee; because you see, they stepped out in faith to become our sponsors and financially invest in a significant way in order for me to enter the Open Door Ministry fulltime. I am thankful to the Hillcrest church of Christ in Dunmor, KY for all they have done and are doing in making it possible for me to be involved in the greatest work on earth; engaging in the ministry of reconciliation.

Brethren, I am not fully funded and need your help to continue. It is urgent that I raise the balance of funds needed for me to do this work for the Master. I need more funds in order to make more trips, participate in more benevolence, and to do the most effective work for Christ Jesus in planting churches and saving souls. There are multiple ways to financially participate with us and I can enumerate those options for you if you will bless me with that privilege.

Right now is prime time for me to intensify my efforts to complete our funding. We are now into early fall and this is the time congregations are beginning to formulate their budgets for 2011. There is no time to waste. Souls are at stake. Millions upon millions are lost without the Christ and our aim is to get to them as efficiently and quickly as possible.

It takes money to do mission work. There are two ways in which you can help me the most in this regard. First, either as a congregation or individual, can you financially participate with us? I request that you approach the elders where you are on our behalf and see if they will allow me to visit them and introduce this work to them. I have a Power Point presentation that will excite you about what God is doing with us! Second, I have found that without the assistance of faithful dedicated Christians we cannot get the job done. Your financial fellowship is really needed at this time!

So, in the mold of what Paul taught the Corinthians, I have begun a good work, but I am now going to “finish doing it also.” God bless you as you contemplate these sentiments. Please pray for us that God will bless us and we can raise the needed funds to do this work.