Prayer Needs
Here’s the latest news from David and Sandy Echols July-September 2012
Back Home in Namibia After a great three months in the USA, we arrived back in Namibia on August 15th and it has been good to be home! We've been busy getting settled back in. We've been moving the rest of the way into our new house on the YWAM farm, setting up the new Three Measures office and laying foundations for the new work.
Pray for wisdom & guidance as we begin a new ministry Pray for workers to come join us in Namibia Successful fundraising for the new ministry Pray for our work permit renewals
Special Dates
August 15— - Back home in Namibia
August 16— - Nine year wedding anniversary
September— - Beginning discipleship groups
January— - Tentative date for first job training school
The Echols' new home on the YWAM farm
New Beginnings As you just read, we have a lot of new things going on. We are in the same community, but are finally ready to kick off the new church planting/community development ministry, Three Measures. We plan to have discipleship groups going by the end of September; please pray for these groups as they are the foundation for our church planting efforts. We are also tentatively planning to begin a skill training course as early as January. Pray for the planning and preparation of this school, especially for wisdom and direction as we David & Sandy in the new plan what to teach, how to go about it and Three Measures office who should attend. We are very excited about what is coming & we hope you are too. For more information about Three Measures visit the new website at www.3measur.es or davidandsandyechols.blogspot.com.
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www.3measur.es
David & Sandy Echols – 3940 Oberding Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 80911 –david@davidandsandy.org Youth With A Mission
Support
Furlough We realy enjoyed being able to spend time with so many of our family members, friends and partners in the USA over the last few months. It was also a blessing to visit with the churches who are behind this ministry. You are all amazing! Thank you to everyone who shared a meal with us or Reese meeting his namesake gave us a place to stay during the (Mr. & Mrs. Reese) in Missouri visit. Look forward to seeing you all again 2014.
We would like to give a big thank you to those who responded to the one time needs listed on our last newsletter. Thanks to a couple of generous people we were able to replace David's broken laptop while we were in the US. Also, we are well on our way in furnishing the Three Measures office. Thank you!
Work Permit
More good news, throughout the course of our furlough we had some more people commit to monthly support, bringing us closer to our needed level. Thank you again! We also have a couple of churches in Missouri considering joining the support team.
Our first week back in Namibia was a busy one, working to get our work permit renewal application turned in to Home Affairs. Our current permit expires next month and we are asking for prayer for a quick response from home affairs without any complications.
Unfortunately while we were Stateside we also lost $500 of monthly support due to people losing jobs. This has dropped us below the support level that we were at before furlough.
The Echols Family
Please consider joining the work of Three Measures here in Namibia. If you would like to help us get back up to budget return the included response card or contact us at: support@davidandsandy.org.
Our family is doing well and we are really enjoying life on the farm. It is quiet and we have a good community of people around us; Sandy even has some other mothers around with young children. Reese has two teeth and has started crawling since we've been back. He is adjusting pretty well, although he's still not sleeping through the night. Prayers for that would be appreciated.
Budget Personal (including food, housing, etc)……….$1,450 Ministry………………$1,300 Benefits (Health Insurance, Savings)………………….$500 Administration……….$150 Total Monthly Need $3,400 -Current Monthly Raised $2,365
Total Remaining Need $1,035 Contributions are solicited with the understanding that YWAM-SF has complete discretion and control over the use of all donated funds. Please make checks payable to Youth With A MissionStrategic Frontiers, or YWAM-SF. All gifts are tax deductable and are requested and/or received with the understanding that YWAM-SF has complete discretion and control over the use of all donated funds
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