A visual of God’s ‘more than enough’ provision pouring out to us, breaking out over the dam.Many dear friends and family members have been pouring into us faithfully these last 10 months since we officially began raising support for our mission work in Los Angeles amongst the urban poor. We have been blessed financially and materially, encouraged emotionally and spiritually and watched over, walked with and prayed for by more people than we can even count. We are so thankful for every person’s contribution. God has called us to a great task and we cannot accomplish anything meaningful without our friends, our brothers and sisters in Christ—that is the design of the Body.
The waters behind the dam (prayers for spiritual and financial blessings) have been steadily rising. Many of you have been praying and giving and watching excitedly as our needed financial support has gone from 20% to 30% to 40% and on…our goal for the end of April was 70%. Yesterday, the
dam broke!
A World Impact board member, whom we don’t even know, responded to our need (as shared with him by our director in Los Angeles) to get us on the field and church planting in Los Angeles as soon as possible. He pledged $2,600 a month for a year. We would have written this update yesterday when we heard the news, but Fabiola and I were in shock…in fact it hasn’t fully set in yet.
We are now changing gears as we prepare to transition as quickly as possible to Los Angeles (more to come on that later). Praise the Lord!!!
We credit this amazing news not only to God’s faithfulness and your generosity, but also to the many months of prayer stored up behind the dam (see the extra section of quotes on prayer below). We think back to the personal emails, calls and visits we’ve had with words of encouragement and faith from the Lord—birthed and bathed in prayer. We also remember with humble awe the thousands of people in Mexico praying fervently for us and the needs of the people in Los Angeles just a few weeks ago. Our time has been used well these last 10 months…God has spoken to our hearts at many levels and has continued to teach and train us valuable lessons in this season. Our prayers—yours and mine—have been heard and answered.
We still need, if not more than ever, prayer for all that is ahead of us. While our focus now will primarily be on our move, saying good-bye and beginning the work the Lord has put on our heart in Los Angeles we cannot forsake, and ask your prayers for, the need for continued and new financial support. Our God can move mountains. Without an army of monthly supporters and prayer warriors we’re not in a position to be able to minister long term. Since this gift will last only a year we ask that you’d pray for 25-50 new monthly supporters to gradually take the burden and bridge the gap of this $2,600 over the next months.
Building a strog base is critical.Pray with us that we'll be able to continue to build a deep and wide financial support base to enable us to minister to the lost and huring of Los Angeles.
We're on the road. We'd hate to have to stop or turn back to figure out how to fill in the gap.
Thank you for rejoicing with us and continuing to love us and pray for us in this exciting season.
Thankful we serve a BIG God,
The Wolyns
Chad, Fabiola, Rebecca and Justice
AWESOME!!!! Elated for you guys and all that God has for you to do in L.A.
ReplyDeleteMan, I admire you both and your persistence and faithfulness in the Lord. Exactly the kind of people who need to be on the mission field.
Oh how I wish we were able to step in and make up for that guy! But I'm continuing to pray that God would increase our income to allow room for supporting you. Hallelujah!