THANKS FOR GIVING!

By Jinger Ellis

Loaves & Fishes

Your donation to the 2022 Loaves & Fishes Offering will be used to fund The Harvest Project in Brazil. The goal is that sufficient donations will be made that allow the Mata de São João Mission to provide monthly food assistance to fifteen families for two years. As of this writing, the offering has received $50,437.01.

Gift to the King

Our 2022 Gift to the King Offering is in support of our brothers and sisters laboring to share the love of Christ in the United Kingdom. We are still receiving offerings, but we have received $20,663.48 to date. Your offerings will be used to help support pastors and ministries in these different churches. It is our hope that by the end of 2023 our new mission churches will be well on their way to self-sufficiency.

Luz Stella Giraldo Marin, Director of the Colegio Americano Manizales, shares a note of appreciation for the 2021 Gift to the King Offering benefitting the “Colegios” (Colombian Schools).

“We thank God for His great blessings, including putting in the hearts of brothers and sisters worldwide the willingness to give for the benefit of families who in one way or another were affected by COVID-19.

In our school there were families who incurred debts because they had no income, and others lost their jobs because of illness. Although the school did everything possible to help these families, they were still left with financial challenges. Through the Gift to the King Offering these challenges could be mitigated. Various children were able to remain in school because of this offering.

There are several cases we can share of how this offering helped us. For example, the Lopez family received help from the Gift to the King Offering. Another family helped by this offering was the Escobars. The father is a street vendor and during the pandemic he could not work. Their income was so low they struggled to find resources to buy food. Their children stayed in school because of the Gift to the King Offering.

That is why today we want to thank you on behalf of these families and the Colegio Americano School of Manizales. Thanks to all the people who were part of this offering - for their great heart and desire to help others. God bless you and receive a fraternal hug from us.”