Learning how to care for your support team

In November I taught a Support Raising seminar in Kilkeel, N.Ireland with Tibi, a colleague from Romania. We had 25 (mostly) CEF workers from (N.) Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Kilchzimmer attend the seminar. I was greatly encouraged by this time of helping other workers build their own support team. This type of practical workshop-training for our full-time workers is something I really enjoy doing.

We asked some of the students, "What are some significant things you have learned through the seminar?" Here's some of what they said:

• "Learning to depend on God, yet being willing to take responsibility that I must share the need."
• "My primary goal in deputation is passionately sharing about what God is doing, rather than pleading with people to give me money! Makes it more of a joy than a burden."
• "I thoroughly enjoyed the classes, the 'biblical perspectives' on support raising. I was amazed at the number of references to money/support in the Bible."
• "I enjoyed learning how to write a prayer letter. After taking to Gary, I worked for 2 hours on a new prayer letter! "
• "To continually look to the Lord for the resources needed (vertical) and not to focus on the horizontal."

They're all praising God

I have lost count of the number of times I have watched this since I first saw the full message over a year ago. The boys were also fascinated by it, so we jumped on their interest and read this to them in the evenings before they went to sleep: Indescribable (Illustrated Edition): Encountering the Glory of God in the Beauty of the Universe by Louie Giglio