Friends,
It's been another long week but we have seen the Lord's hand working on our behalf. We have had some additional monthly support come in this week; we now only need $455 a month in monthly support and we still need about $14,000 in cash.
We know that this is an insignificant amount to God; we know that if it is His will for us to go to Tanzania we will go. Please continue to pray with us that God's will for our lives will be accomplished. We have about four weeks left to raise the remainder of our funds.
If He speaks to your heart to become a ministry partner with us; please be obedient and let us know as soon as possible.
Blessings to all of you!
Joyce
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Progress Report
Dear Friends,
We have come to the end of a very long week and we want to give you a report so you can continue to pray for us. We know we have many prayer partners praying for us across this country and in Tanzania and for that we are grateful.
God has brought in $7000 of our cash budget this week; we still have $15,000 more to raise to reach the minimum amount we need. Also, $200 of the $800 in monthly pledge support has come in.
Our deadline of July 31st looms ahead of us and will be upon us before we know it.
Thank you for your love and support; pray for a good harvest of funds for next week!
Blessings
Joyce
We have come to the end of a very long week and we want to give you a report so you can continue to pray for us. We know we have many prayer partners praying for us across this country and in Tanzania and for that we are grateful.
God has brought in $7000 of our cash budget this week; we still have $15,000 more to raise to reach the minimum amount we need. Also, $200 of the $800 in monthly pledge support has come in.
Our deadline of July 31st looms ahead of us and will be upon us before we know it.
Thank you for your love and support; pray for a good harvest of funds for next week!
Blessings
Joyce
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Waiting...
Waiting is one of the hardest things we have to do in life; Americans especially are an impatient lot and we have grown accustomed to having things instantly. The human population as a whole are by nature impatient; it must be interesting for the eternal God who has always been and always will be to listen to our complaints about "waiting".
Tim and I are now in the "waiting" mode. Since our meeting last Wednesday we have been in a flurry of activity. We have now notified every church/pastor in Michigan and Southern Missouri about our July 31st deadline; we have called, emailed, or sent a letter to each one. We have emailed our list of family, friends and missionaries. We have followed leads given to us and we have called a number of churches/people in several other states. In all, we have made about 800 contacts.
Now we must wait and pray; we have to believe that the God we love and serve can speak to the hearts of people on our behalf. Our future is, has always been, and always will be in the hands of our Lord. We will accept the future that He has for us; even if it is not the future we want for ourselves.
Thanks to each of you for your prayers on our behalf; we will continue to update you.
Be blessed today,
Joyce
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Good Things are Happening
Dear Friends,
We want to update you on events of the past few days. If you read the earlier postings you know that we have a deadline of July 31; we need to have all of our cash ($26,000) and the remaining 25% of our monthly pledge support ($2,200) completely raised.
Yesterday we met with leadership to discuss some options; they have heard from the National Church in Tanzania and from the missionaries and all of them have said that we are desperately needed in Tanzania. Because of this and the fact that we are 13 year veterans, we were given the choice to make some personal concessions to cut our budget.
We believe that God wants us back in Tanzania and we also believe He will provide for our needs if we will step out in faith. With this in mind, we allowed our budget to be cut down to the bare necessities and a large part of these cuts were in the area of our personal salary.
After the cuts, we now have 90% of our budget raised; we only need $800 more in monthly pledge support to come in by July 31. We still need to raise $22,000 in cash; there was very little we could cut from the cash budget.
We believe God is going to honor our willingness to cut our personal benefits, including our retirement fund, and will bring in the funds we need before July 31.
Please pray with us and if you are able to help with monthly pledge support or give towards our cash budget, please contact us at tim.jarvis@agmd.org .
Blessings to all of you!
Joyce Jarvis
We want to update you on events of the past few days. If you read the earlier postings you know that we have a deadline of July 31; we need to have all of our cash ($26,000) and the remaining 25% of our monthly pledge support ($2,200) completely raised.
Yesterday we met with leadership to discuss some options; they have heard from the National Church in Tanzania and from the missionaries and all of them have said that we are desperately needed in Tanzania. Because of this and the fact that we are 13 year veterans, we were given the choice to make some personal concessions to cut our budget.
We believe that God wants us back in Tanzania and we also believe He will provide for our needs if we will step out in faith. With this in mind, we allowed our budget to be cut down to the bare necessities and a large part of these cuts were in the area of our personal salary.
After the cuts, we now have 90% of our budget raised; we only need $800 more in monthly pledge support to come in by July 31. We still need to raise $22,000 in cash; there was very little we could cut from the cash budget.
We believe God is going to honor our willingness to cut our personal benefits, including our retirement fund, and will bring in the funds we need before July 31.
Please pray with us and if you are able to help with monthly pledge support or give towards our cash budget, please contact us at tim.jarvis@agmd.org .
Blessings to all of you!
Joyce Jarvis
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
People of Faith
Hello everyone,
I had a very long talk with my oldest daughter, Jenn, yesterday; it did my heart good. First, because I only talk to her a couple of times a month and so I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with her. Secondly, it did my heart good because sometimes you wonder as a parent what kind of an impression you made on your children as you raised them and what they remember about their lives.
My daughter spoke to me yesterday about a conversation she had with a co-worker a few days ago. She told them that she was raised in a family of faith and she watched her parents help people in need all her life. She remembers that her parents loved people and lived to help people; that we were people of faith who trusted God to meet our needs because we were faithfully trying to meet the needs of others. She said something like, "Mom, I know everything is going to be OK; God has done so much for us already and I know He is going to take care of this too."
We still need about 24% of our support by the end of July; we have been calling and leaving messages with churches and pastors. Our financial status has changed little since the last blog I posted; however, we are choosing to live as people of faith. We trust God with our future just as we have always trusted Him in the past. Whether we go to Africa or not is not dependent upon our efforts; it is in the hands of the God who is faithful and trustworthy. Today in my devotions I read Psalm 121:1-8, read it and be blessed.
In Him,
Joyce Jarvis
I had a very long talk with my oldest daughter, Jenn, yesterday; it did my heart good. First, because I only talk to her a couple of times a month and so I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with her. Secondly, it did my heart good because sometimes you wonder as a parent what kind of an impression you made on your children as you raised them and what they remember about their lives.
My daughter spoke to me yesterday about a conversation she had with a co-worker a few days ago. She told them that she was raised in a family of faith and she watched her parents help people in need all her life. She remembers that her parents loved people and lived to help people; that we were people of faith who trusted God to meet our needs because we were faithfully trying to meet the needs of others. She said something like, "Mom, I know everything is going to be OK; God has done so much for us already and I know He is going to take care of this too."
We still need about 24% of our support by the end of July; we have been calling and leaving messages with churches and pastors. Our financial status has changed little since the last blog I posted; however, we are choosing to live as people of faith. We trust God with our future just as we have always trusted Him in the past. Whether we go to Africa or not is not dependent upon our efforts; it is in the hands of the God who is faithful and trustworthy. Today in my devotions I read Psalm 121:1-8, read it and be blessed.
In Him,
Joyce Jarvis
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