An "ordinary" Sunday...NOT!

Yesterday morning was crazy in our house. Men's breakfast, invitation to meet a missionary at another church, financial presentation at our church...we were going in different directions and I felt frustrated. (I like my Sunday morning leading up to Sunday School and the worship service to be calm as I prepare and anticipate receiving something from the Lord). We had also received word on Friday that we were still $400 short in shipping the ambulance off to Costa Rica and that was weighing on my heart. We arrived at the other church early enough to get to meet the missionary, Jan, and talk for a few minutes before the service started. Things became "wild", not Jan, but GOD. We had so much in common, that we all knew, this was a Divinely-appointed meeting! Jan is a short-term missionary to Costa Rica working in an orphanage about a half hour from El Jardin, the camp. Her and her husband operate a retreat center/camp not to far from our town. Weird...we had never even heard that there was a retreat center in this area. The service began with worship music and their choir, and then Damascus Road, a singing group. I received through the worship music that preparation I had lacked before leaving my home. We were introduced to the congregation as missionaries before the offering and the Pastor told them that we needed to leave to attend our church. Before we left we were given cash by Jan and the church promised a check to match her gift. The total was $400. It reminded me of this verse, "My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue; but in deed and truth". I John 3:18

Ministry Needs for serving in Costa Rica

Ministry Update
Right now we have two very specific needs and each is equally as important. We need people to come alongside of us and commit to praying for us, regularly! You see, it's not like we feel we are necessarily fully equipped to be missionaries, but we know we feel called, and so we believe that God will do the equipping! We will update you through this blog and a newsletter that we hope to soon launch on things to pray for. We'd also like to pray for you too, so if you have a need that we can join you in praying over, please let us know.

Those who would commit to supporting the ministry financially with monthly support. In December we were at 28% of our monthly support. We are happy to report that we are at a solid 33% now, but we still have a long way to go. In September we launched our "131 x 30" campaign asking people to join our "team" by committing to support us in the amount of $30/month. Some have been able to give more, but with a lot of people doing a little, we are now in a "97 x 30" campaign, to God be the Glory! We still need to raise $2,935 a month in support. We believe that God wants others to be involved in this ministry by sending us to Costa Rica with an entire "team" of supporters!

Would you consider "joining us" on the mission field, becoming our teammates in Costa Rica by supporting us each month? You can join the El Jardin Team by informing Global Outreach Mission that you would like to support us. The address is Global Outreach Mission, PO Box 2010, Buffalo, NY 14231-2010. Please specify on your check or an attached piece of paper that the funds are for "Ken & Sherri Dundon". Global's web site is: www.missiongo.org

God is "at work" in Costa Rica!