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Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Aug 18, 2006 10:39:37 GMT -5
Hey guys! For a little over three years my family has been fully supporting a national pastor in Tanzania Africa. God spoke to our hearts during a missions conference at our church about supporting a pastor. To fully support a pastor is $110 each month. At the time, we really did not have an extra $110 laying around but we believed God would provide. God has not failed us, the support has been there every month for us to send to our pastor. Each quarter we receive a report from Peter (our pastor) telling us about his ministry for that quarter. The following is the latest report:   As you can see, the Kingdom investment I am privilege to make on a monthly basis has a great return. Every report we receive from Peter shows many people are saved through his ministry. We wait for each report in anticipation of reading it to see how many more people have come into the Kingdom. So why did I bring this up? Glad you asked.  I wanted to see if anyone is interested in joining with a national pastor like I have and/or see if there is enough interest to support a pastor as a clan (donations would be separate from clan server donations). Let me outline the program for you. Each pastor (from Africa, Eastern Europe, or Asia) has 4 sponsorships each month: two for ministry, one for outreach, and one for training. The amount of the sponsorships are $35 (x2), $25, and $15 respectively. Money is sent directly to Gospelink and they forward it to the pastors. So for $110 each month, a national pastor is fully sponsored. Gospelink sends 80% of the money to the pastors and uses 20% for overhead/expenses. Gospelink has a strict accountability program to make sure the donated money is being used for the purpose for which it was donated (staff members actually go and meet face to face with each supported pastor). If someone wants to give their pastor more than the regular monthly amount, 100% of the additional amount (over the monthly amount) is sent to the sponsored pastor. The program is flexible. A person can take on one sponsorship (for ministry, outreach, or training) or any combination of the sponsorships. I know the program works because i have seen it with my own eyes and have personally met pastors who receive the support. So is anyone interested in supporting their own missionary? Is there enough interest in the clan to support a missionary as a clan? Post your questions or conformations and once we see what kind of response we have, we will move forward. For those of you who want to support your own pastor, let me know and Ill walk you through the process. Thank you for your time and may God bless. Marson The above, due to its nature, was approved for posting by the LC and Peace. |
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Post by Dancer-=Of-God=- on Aug 18, 2006 13:19:57 GMT -5
I think it's a great idea and we should defenetly give it a try to support atleast 1 pastor. Add a paypal button in this thread and let's see how it goes.....if we somehow don't reach the monthly goal of 110$ we can see from there. 1417 souls saved in a couple of months, that's amazing brother  |
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Post by ForChrist-=Of-God=- on Aug 18, 2006 13:37:58 GMT -5
I think it's a great idea and we should defenetly give it a try to support atleast 1 pastor. Add a paypal button in this thread and let's see how it goes.....if we somehow don't reach the monthly goal of 110$ we can see from there. 1417 souls saved in a couple of months, that's amazing brother  I agree with Marco. Bro Jeff a.k.a. [shadow=red,left,300][glow=red,2,300] †_FC_†™[/glow][/shadow] |
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Post by Armies-=Of-God=- {Josh} on Aug 19, 2006 9:48:55 GMT -5
I cannot belive 1417 people received Christ with 1 church started and 3 villages he help to evangelize  I have nothing to say exept good job to the people down their helping them.  |
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Post by Ace {Tim} on Aug 19, 2006 22:56:24 GMT -5
Thats amazing
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Post by vivificus on Aug 21, 2006 23:35:02 GMT -5
Just think if everyone would do the same as you Marson!! What a different world it would be. Keep up the Great work.
Nick
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Post by Dancer-=Of-God=- on Aug 24, 2006 16:03:44 GMT -5
So are we gonna get trough with this or are we waiting for more input ? if so someone (..within the leadership maybe) should fill in a form, post a donation button for a paypal account and make the payment for each month. Any takers ? If you should have questions on how to set up a paypal donation link let me know and i'll point you in the right direction.
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Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Aug 24, 2006 20:50:15 GMT -5
thanks for the enthusiasm! i figured we would wait to see if anyone else was interested. i take it very serious because the preacher will leave his means of earning an income to preach full time. that means that he is dependant on the donations EVERY month. i would hate to get started and only be able to last for a couple months. right now i cant personally afford to support another pastor and i would like to be in a position to do so if we were to try it as a clan that way if it fell through after a couple months i would still be able to continue the support. also, if there is not enough "clan" interest, i would encourage you to consider supporting a missionary directly and you would get to know him and receive the letters from him (and maybe we could go to africa together some day to meet your missionary). ill leave it open another week or so to see what happens.... i may set up a paypal link and use the funds received (if its not enough to support a pastor) to send as extra funds to my missionary or send to gospelink to help support pastors that are orphaned (people were supporting them and for one reason or another quit sending in the money) |
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Post by ForChrist-=Of-God=- on Aug 24, 2006 21:31:49 GMT -5
I don't know how much help I could be financially but I am in support of this as a clan project. I am sure that there are those among us who are able to offer financial support of a missionary. This clan is becoming more and more the body of Christ rather than just a gaming clan. And that's a great thing! We even had a small worship service after bible study tonight! Bro Jeff a.k.a. [shadow=red,left,300][glow=red,2,300] †_FC_†™[/glow][/shadow] |
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Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Sept 4, 2006 9:26:47 GMT -5
ok, we will give this a shot and see what happens..... ill use my personal paypal link for the time being. we will see what comes in and make a decision on what to do with the money once we have accumulated a little. ill contact everyone that has participated and we will go from there.  cant figure out how to get the paypal link to work... any suggestions?  |
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Post by Dancer-=Of-God=- on Sept 4, 2006 12:10:59 GMT -5
ok, we will give this a shot and see what happens..... ill use my personal paypal link for the time being. we will see what comes in and make a decision on what to do with the money once we have accumulated a little. ill contact everyone that has participated and we will go from there. cant figure out how to get the paypal link to work... any suggestions? All we need is your email you use to log in on Paypal. We can log in on paypal and make the payment trough your email adress. Maybe Jeff can tell us how he set up that Paypal link on the forum mainpage. |
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Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Sept 4, 2006 16:07:00 GMT -5
email for paypal is LIYAsDad@ars-repo.com
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Post by Dancer-=Of-God=- on Sept 4, 2006 16:42:47 GMT -5
I was offering help for setting up a paypal link few posts up but I'm as clueless as you are. Found out there's a big difference in thinking you know something and actually knowing something lol.  |
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Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Sept 4, 2006 17:03:26 GMT -5
I was offering help for setting up a paypal link few posts up but I'm as clueless as you are. Found out there's a big difference in thinking you know something and actually knowing something lol. hehe |
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Post by Peace-=Of-God=- on Sept 4, 2006 21:49:46 GMT -5
ok, we will give this a shot and see what happens..... ill use my personal paypal link for the time being. we will see what comes in and make a decision on what to do with the money once we have accumulated a little. ill contact everyone that has participated and we will go from there. cant figure out how to get the paypal link to work... any suggestions?  Hmmm, I think I know someone who could set something up for you like that . Check out the bottom of the main page of the forum now! |
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Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Sept 6, 2006 19:39:08 GMT -5
sweet!!  thanks Jeff  .... cant wait to see what comes in.. hope we can fully support a missionary as a clan! |
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Post by ForChrist-=Of-God=- on Sept 7, 2006 1:01:23 GMT -5
I think this is so kewl! Thanks for setting that up Peace! May God bless this vision. Bro Jeff a.k.a. [shadow=red,left,300][glow=red,2,300] †_FC_†™[/glow][/shadow] |
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Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Sept 7, 2006 20:40:16 GMT -5
May God bless this vision. i think HE is beginning too!! in the last couple days i have received donations of $50 and two others totaling $35 that are not officially in the account at this point. now, that fires me up!  the reason the $35 is "not officially in the account" yet is because in my lack of foresight, i gave a paypal address that goes to my personal account that is not set up for debit/credit card transactions. i set up a second account and emailed the donors asking them to resend the donations to marson@networktel.net (which is set up for debit/credit card transactions). so keep those donations coming..... paypal cash donations to liyasdad@ars-repo.com and debit/credit card donations to marson@networktel.net. thanks a million! on a side note: lewis nelms of gospelink called me today to let me know the support packages for the pastors are ready to go out as soon as sponsors are found. i shared with him what has been set up at our forum and told him we are shooting for a full sponsorship. he will be checking back with me toward the end of september to see how its coming. he gave me a quick rundown of the progress made this summer at the bible college: 85 buildings started and 95% complete (they are still awaiting the arrival of the shipping container that contains all their supplies) and he also informed me they may be eligible for a grant of $800,000 and he is expecting to hear from that in the near future. i told him i could not wait to see what has been done next june ;D |
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Post by Peace-=Of-God=- on Sept 8, 2006 0:04:14 GMT -5
Just an update, if you haven't seen the bottom of the main page yet ... there are now TWO RED BUTTONS in the bottom right corner, clearly labeled ... be sure to choose the correct button for the source of the funds that you're using for your donation. And thank you to all have jumped on the bandwagon thus far -- may God richly reward your sacrificial generosity in giving to His work!  |
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Post by Missionary-=Of-God=- on Sept 16, 2006 14:18:50 GMT -5
another update..... here is a log of donations that i will keep current. when we get a couple hundred bucks we will figure out what we want to do. if anyone has any questions please let me know. -=Of-God=- Missionary Donation Log |
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I wanted to see if anyone is interested in joining with a national pastor like I have and/or see if there is enough interest to support a pastor as a clan (donations would be separate from clan server donations).
Thanx Andrew 
I have nothing to say exept good job to the people down their helping them. 
