Financial Update

Getting Close

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Only by God’s amazing works:

Progress Map
(A geographic representation of how much support we still need in order to move.)

 We’re getting pretty close to our goal!  The Lord has ‘floored us’ with some huge, generous, unexpected commitments this week.  

Approximately $250/month is the minimum still needed as of this afternoon.  Keep praying for October 9th – Columbus Day – that’s this coming Monday!

Still waiting on the buyer for our house to show up at our front door any moment now!! (And with the way God is responding, this could very well be.)  Again, this will only happen by God’s grace and His perfect intervention.  

The sale of our house seems to be the most pressing need we have right now.  Could you please pray throughout this weekend?  Ask the Lord to send the right person, ready to make an offer by Monday!  We join you in praying boldly.

More updates will follow this one right here on HandsHeadlines.  These updates should give credit to the Lord for specific answered prayer.  Already, some stories we have to share are truly incredible.

Of course we won’t leave you hanging on Monday – we’ll try our best to send out another email and post the progress update here.  Other posts could come before and after Monday, but we probably won’t notify everyone by email for these.  If you’d like to find out how to see automatic notices of new posts on HandsHeadlines, go to this page on our site:  https://handsheadlines.com/2006/07/05/whats-rss/


Thank you, thank you, thank you for praying!!

Orlando Move

Seven

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Just one quick week before October 9th.  We’re still pretty much at the same place as we were last Friday.  

Even though time is short, we’re still asking God for our faith goals to be accomplished in the next seven days.

No doubt we’re gonna praise and thank Him regardless of what happens by then.  Let that be crystal clear.  He’s done so much in us and for us up to this point.  It’ll be the biggest Columbus Day celebration we’ve ever had!

Family

Tech Game

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Tech Clash at Hand House
At the Hand house, you can not simply root for “Tech” or cheer “Let’s Go Tech!”  Which Tech?  Which state?

Last Saturday Georgia Tech played Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.  As many of you know, Shannon went to Virginia Tech (aka VPI for Virginia Polytechnic and State University) and is still quite a HOKIE fan.  Yes, exactly:  what IS a hokie bird anyway??  I went to Georgia Tech – home of the Yellow Jackets.  OK, so our mascot is a bumble bee but at least it’s an identifiable species!

Well, suffice it to say that I felt a little outnumbered when game time rolled around!  How convenient that my wife and all of my children (notice I said MY) were completely clad in Hokie attire.  What was I given to wear to support my team?  A nineteen-year-old ball cap!  (You can barely distinguish the faded GT in the photo) That was it.

But hey, it was enough.  The score says it all:

image credit:  espn.com
Nice!

Financial Update

Keep Praying

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Just Ten Days till Columbus Day!

We’re hoping to celebrate Columbus Day – for the first time ever, maybe 🙂 – and certainly like never before.  After pursuing the Lord for these faith goals for many months, we’re still hopeful that He will supply the remaining needs by October 9th.  Yet, there’s still a long way to go – a miraculous amount to be accomplished in such a short time.

Pray for the Lord to do even more than this list asks, but here are the basics:

  • Ask God to respond in ways that make Him the center of attention – and will remind others of His true character and purposes.
  • Specifically, by October 9th, pray that the Lord would choose to provide the right people to give joyfully.  We currently still need a minimum of $746 in monthly commitments.
  • Not only pray that God will provide the right people, but also pray that we would be able to talk to these people in person.  Pray that when we call people, we would not get a voicemail message, but get to talk.  Also pray we could talk to many face to face.
  • Would God use you to answer some of these prayers?  Let us know if you can introduce us to someone who would like to learn more about what God is doing in our ministry (no obligation to give).  
  • If you are already giving regularly to our ministry, would the Lord have you increase your giving?  Perhaps even by $10 or $20 per month or $100 per year?
  • Another huge need is for God to supply a buyer for our house here in Mableton.  We aren’t able to look at houses in Orlando until our house here sells.  Pray that the person God wants to live here next will see our house and give us an offer by October 9th.
  • Pray that the Lord would prepare us to move.  We feel prepared but there are hundreds of details that must be taken care of. 
  • Pray for our whole family to walk closely with Jesus.
  • Pray that we would praise the Lord for His pure greatness, regardless of what happens on Columbus Day.



So, To Recap:

image credit: Rob Williams, orangejack.com
1)  Minimum Support Needed:  $746 in monthly commitments (or annual equivalents).  Works out to just about 10 new people at $75/month.

2)  House:  Would like to have a buyer by October 9th.
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As of this morning, here’s where we’re at:

(Not geographically, but as a representation of how much support we still need in order to move.)

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For those of you who like to do the math:  Orlando is about 450 miles from Atlanta; We’ve seen the Lord provide $1,654 out of the needed $2,400/month in additional support; . . . so the corresponding ratio yields 310 miles traveled out of the total 450.

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