Thank You! From our partners and missionaries

Thank You! FROM OUR PARTNERS AND MISSIONARIES

THANKSGIVING EVE OFFERING

What terrific news!

I am so happy to hear of the incredible generosity of the church toward Afghan resettlement arising from your Thanksgiving Eve Offering. And thanks for your prayers for the children and their families we serve. Speaking at your mission festival breakfast about their needs and now seeing this continued outpouring of love is such a blessing. We have received well over 150 people from Afghanistan and are expecting another 100 in the next couple of months. So, your timing of this gift could not be better!

May God continue to bless our partnership to share and show the love of Christ to our newer neighbors.

Yours in Christ, Keith (World Relief Chicagoland)

I’m a little overwhelmed, seeing your news of this amazing gift from the Thanksgiving Eve Offering for MAI’s training of Christian publishers and writers serving in difficult countries at the LittWorld 2022 conference! Thank you!

We praise God for the remarkable generosity of the College Church family, and express our deep gratitude for this precious investment in the equipping of men and women who are publishing the Good News of Jesus Christ in hard places of the world.

John and Elsa (Media Associates International)

I am deeply grateful for this very generous gift from College Church that will be a great blessing for orphans and vulnerable children—especially the millions of children who have lost family members as a result of COVID. And I know that all the AFFEO (A Family for Every Orphan) team, in the United States and globally, joins me in expressing our gratitude on behalf of the orphans and vulnerable children we serve.

The Center for Communicable Diseases (CDC) now estimates that there are an additional five million children who have lost parents or caregivers, due to COVID, since I submitted the proposal to College Church earlier for the ministry of AFFEO, as a missionary of Mission Eurasia (ME). In AFFEO, we always attempt to find other family members who can care for a child, if children become parentless. And when it is not possible to reunite children with extended family, our AFFEO leaders in the nine countries where AFFEO focuses then seek to help children be fostered or adopted in caring, Christian homes. It is our prayer that these children, who have regained a family, will also have opportunity to come to know their Heavenly Father and follow Him.

College Church has been my home church for many years, and I am forever grateful for the blessing that has been in countless ways.

May God bless and guide College Church, Pastor Josh, Pastor Curt and all the leadership team and congregation in every way.

Gratefully, Anita Deyneka

MISSIONARY CHRISTMAS

You have always been so generous! Thank you for caring for your missionaries!

Blessings, Susan Perlman

Thank you for the encouraging words this morning. Knowing that I am not doing this alone, but with a multitude from College Church that the Lord has provided. Both comforting and encouraging. I’ll keep a look out for the gift.

Thank you, Jeff and Margreet Dusek

Thank you for this generous Christmas gift. Our whole family appreciates the love and kindness this gift represents.

With love and gratitude, Bruce and Becky Wilson

Thank you!!

Thad and Joy McAuley

Thank you for the kind and encouraging Christmas greetings; and thank you in advance for your generous gift to us. We really do “thank [our] God upon every remembrance of you.” It is impossible to overestimate College Church’s influence on our lives and ministry through the years. We pray God’s very richest blessings for you as outlined in Ephesians 1. May He continue to pour out his blessings so that you in turn can continue to pass them on to the whole world.

Merry Christmas to each one!

Lois and Steve Dresselhaus

Thank you so much to all of you! May the Lord bless you all!

Paul Adams

Thank you very much for your generosity. It is a blessing to be part of the College Church family. I thank God so much for your support, prayers and gifts. May God continue to bless your life. Best regards.

Jose Pablo Sanchez

Thank you so much for this gift demonstrating (yet again!) your generosity, support and encouragement. You are all a blessing to us. It was a great pleasure to be in Wheaton for the Missions Conference in October. We praise God that he cares for all the people of the entire world, and that all of us have a part to play in taking the gospel to them. We are delighted to be commissioned by CCIW and partnering in this great, eternal work.

I will take personal responsibility to see that Ann and I use this gift for something personal, not work related. I have some ideas…

Warmly in Christ, Phil and Ann Baur

We cannot begin to recount all the ways our church family has blessed us over the years! We are particularly thankful this past year as you have come behind us with such generosity and encouragement in our transition from LRI to Accessible Hope International. We are finding great joy and fulfillment in resourcing disability ministries around the world with training, coaching and funding. Thank you for your very kind Christmas gift. We are so blessed by our church family!

Thank you! Phil Smith

Thank you so much to you and to the church for this gift! We will write again but wanted to acknowledge your email. We will put this gift toward something special!

In Christ, John and Pam

Thanks once again for your special Missionary Christmas gift. It’s come at just the right time.

Our immediate family is gathering for Christmas in northern Michigan where we were given the use of a ministry guest house in northern Michigan. Both gifts together will help make for a wonderful family Christmas celebration.

Thank you! We appreciate you all.

Kind regards, Charley and Cheryl Warner

We sure appreciate your love and support for our family and your partnership with us in ministry! Thank you for this special Christmas gift...we look forward to using it for some special family outings to rest and relax throughout the year. We wish you all a merry Christmas!

Love, The Viands family

Thank you for this kind and generous personal gift. It is yet one more reminder of your care for us, and the Lord’s kindness to us through you.

This tradition is one of my favorites. I know I mention this almost every year, but I have sweet memories of walking up to the front of the church carrying gifts from the congregation, searching for the church mouse as I crossed the platform, and depositing gift envelopes in the Christmas mailbox. It was a particular delight to celebrate Christmas way before the Christmas season. And it cemented in my mind that Missions was important.

Our gift this year was a Hyperice electric massager. It caught Jon’s eye when he was buying a new pair of running shoes. It has already served us well, helping Jon work out a knot in his calf, and relieving my weary leg and shoulders muscles at the end of the day.

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

Kathy and Jon Haley