Run Out of Town

There seems to be a common theme in westerns. It seems there is one family making trouble for another family, and doing their darnedest to make sure the outsider family realizes they are unwelcome.  They want to make sure those outsiders realize they are getting run out of town.  In a sense it seems we are getting run out of town...but in a good way. 

Why?  We have a purchase agreement on our house!  This is really exciting, I know many people that have been sitting on their homes just waiting for them to sell.  Mine never had a chance to go on the market, the buyers found us and wanted our house.  God does not always work this way, but maybe he knows we need some extra nudging.

I love the story of Nehemiah, as I have said before, because it seems to parallel our story so well.  We heard the news of the needs at Rancho Ebenezer, we responded, and God has been opening doors.  This was not always the common experience of prophets and heroes of the Bible, it may even be the exception, just think of all King David went through before he became king.  Let's look how it just all falls into place for Nehemiah:

Nehemiah 2:7-9 (NIV)

⁷ I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates, so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah? ⁸ And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted my requests. ⁹ So I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me.

To be honest I thought  my home would hold me back from getting on the mission field,  I was afraid it would not sell, or we would have to give it away to get rid of it.  We have a very nice home, but there are lots of nice homes not selling.  I was afraid I would get our support raised and have to wait to sell it.  So as of November 1, we will be homeless and all that worry was just a waste.

Up to this point, we were looking at a nice slow uphill climb. But now the momentum has switched and we have crested the rise.  Now, we need help to make sure our support is in place.  Our Goal is to be in Honduras on or before February 1, 2014.

If you can help us financially, we would really appreciate your gift. We are currently at about 25% of our monthly supporters which maintains our family's monthly needs, but we are still low on our start up account that will help with our family's initial travel to Honduras and language school.  WGO requires us to have 80% of our support committed up front.  

If you cannot support us please keep reading and keeping track of what is going on because we also need prayer warriors.  Even Nehemiah did not have a smooth path the whole time, and prayer is very important. 

This month you can praise God with us as He works to run us out of town!  Maybe, we are supposed to do more than just walk in obedience...

Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV)

 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, ² fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.

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If you have any questions email me at matt.nevala@wgomission.org