Miraculous Financial Provision!

In a dramatic display of His provision, God has met our financial need in ways that can only be described as “breathtaking”.  

In February, we shared with you that we were facing a “Fiscal Cliff.”  Because much of our initial support was in the form of large donations spread over two years we were going to be below 50% of our required monthly support on August 1.  We were informed that we must return to the US at that time, and would not be permitted to return to Germany until we were once again at 100%.  The gap was nearly $6000 per month.  

We did not know how long it would take to raise that much support, but we were confident that God did – and that He is always faithful.  We asked you to pray that we would be able to return to Germany by October 1, in time for our one-year anniversary service.  We knew that it would take a huge work of God to accomplish such a goal!  But as our friend Darryl Evetts likes to say, “God was gettin’ ready to show off!”

Over the course of the next 10 weeks, God began to move in powerful ways.  People around the US and Europe began to respond with commitments to support the work in Darmstadt.  Then our sending agency informed us that they were decreasing our required support level by nearly $1000 per month based on our actual expenses over the past two years.  In addition, the CIF congregation has taken a great step of faith to get behind the mission – a step toward the day when the church will be completely self-funded. 

The miraculous bottom line is this – by the middle of May (in just three months!) God had provided, through His faithful people, enough support that we were given permission to purchase our return tickets to Germany!  It was so astounding that I had to keep going back to my spreadsheet and make sure I hadn’t added something incorrectly.  It was like when Peter was released from the Jerusalem jail, and stood at the door knocking – the church had been praying for his release, but when it happened, they couldn’t believe it! 

We will be back in plenty of time for our one year anniversary service, and we can add to that celebration this amazing demonstration of God’s hand upon this work.  We can’t begin to explain to you how amazing this is – it sometimes takes people years to raise the support God provided for Darmstadt in just weeks!

Please, PLEASE, join us in thanks to the Lord!  This was a powerful example of Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know I am God.”  In this case, God showed that it is not about us.  There are times we are called to act, and there are times when God wants us to “let go” and allow Him to “show off”.