Over the past year and a half Selene and I have discovered that raising support is challenging--to say the least. We have also discovered that we cannot complete this process without help. We have learned that there is three models or methods of support raising:
- Praying exclusively (Hudson Taylor) trusting that God will meet your needs.
- Praying and making your needs known (George Mueller).
- Praying, making your needs known and asking (Dwight L. Moody).
Daily we have prayed for God's guidance, direction, wisdom and discretion about raising support. We have made our needs known. And we have also asked individuals and churches with humility and gentleness about joining our support team.
Many of you reading this are already supporting us. For that, Selene and I are extremely grateful. We are asking those in this group to prayerfully consider increasing your support. Some of you reading this have pledged to support us but have not yet begun doing so. We want to encourage you to follow through with that commitment and start supporting us at this time on a monthly basis. The majority of you reading this are not (at this time) supporting us. For you in the last category Selene and I want to challenge you to prayerfully consider supporting us. One thing that you all have done which we have benefited from was pray for us. Thanks so much for that!
A very dear friend of mine once told me that I should never be afraid to ask God's people for (God's) money to do God's work. I can honestly say that typing this email is not easy for me. However, we believe that God is calling us to serve Him in Mexico and we need your help.
The need? Only roughly 7% of Mexicans claim to be Christian. The vast majority of Mexicans are not only living in financial poverty but spiritual poverty and darkness, without hope. Many cities/villages (in the Chicago-land area alone) are saturated with churches that proclaim a conservative Gospel. Many towns/cities in the republic of Mexico have no churches that proclaim a conservative gospel.
Perhaps some of may be offended by the content of this blog. Of course that was not our purpose. The purpose of this is to get you to close your eyes, bow your head for a few moments and ask our Father if He would have you support us--and in what way. Our target date to leave and have our support raised is August of this year. That leaves us with less than eight months to raise our support. Romans 10: 14-15 reads: "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
Your financial gifts will allow us to live in Mexico. Your prayers will enable us to carry out the ministry God is calling us to! Remember monthly supporters who give small amounts (25-100 dollars) make up the majority of our support team. You don't have to "give big" to support us.
With genuine and deep humility,
Karl & Selene Strittar
We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Latin America Mission, P.O.B. 52-7900, Miami, FL 33152-7900 (with a note that it's for the Strittar family).
Or by internet: lam.org Go to donations/missionary appointees/Strittar family.
Or click on this link to go directly to our LAM family bio:
http://shop2.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/lam.storefront/EN/product/757716
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