thanksWe’re so grateful for those who are jumping in to help reach the matching fund goal. One friend wrote, ” I would like to be the first person to give $100 towards your matching gifts.  I will get that to you before the end of the year, a little busy right now with the convention and a couple of other things, but I will be the first to commit to give you $100, I think this is my first time to give, should have done it along time ago!” We’ll eagerly await the time when God empowers you to fulfill your intent. Thank you!

In the meantime, other gifts arrived…

  • $50 from Eddie & Alice Smith Ministries (See Item #2 above)
  • $100 from friends in Elkhart, IN
  • $25 from William Carey Library Publishers
  • $100 from Advance Global Coaching (See Item #1 above)
  • $100 from a great friend in Pennsylvania
  • $100 from FMF Perspectives, Irving, TX
  • $100 from a mobile TESL team in Meridian, ID
  • $50 from a Wycliffe worker
  • $15 from Lingua House in Vancouver, WA
  • $500 from super friends in the great state of Alaska
  • $50 from anonymous workers with GEM
  • $14 from ISA, thanks to trip cancellation insurance purchased by Jim and Roxanna. Pick up the very best trip insurance by going to… http://www.missionaryhealth.net/brigada.htm

Now thanks to the gracious matching gift by an international church in the Middle East in celebration of the Missional International Church Network Annual Conference, this $1204 has become $2408! Their sacrificial giving has doubled in value, bringing the grand total giving for 2009 to $7103.57. Remember, we only accept $17,120 for 2009. Not a penny more. But that means we still have $11,300 to go. $770.81 still remains in the matching fund gift… so the first 7 or 8 “True Friends of Brigada” to send in $100 will see their gift doubled. Will you help please? If so, we’d be very grateful.