I've raised 86% of my budget for next year! This means I can be on campus full-time during New Student Outreach in a few weeks. With committed monthly gifts, one-time gifts that have already come in, regular one-time gifts that have come in for the last 3 years that I can probably count on, and my escrow (unused money from last year), I've got $43,000 raised. I need $7,000 more, so please ask God to provide. I'm closer than I've ever been to being paid my full salary and having enough money for all my ministry expenses.
In the last 6 months, my area director, Josh Howell, encouraged us to live in holy discontent about unfinished fundraising. Way too often, I shirk fundraising, not really thinking of it as part of my ministry. I've allowed my fears and doubts about God providing to paralyze me. But I don't want my students to think that God can't provide. I don't want to see new Texas A&M staff struggle to raise funds, only to give up and finish their commitment to staff underpaid and overstressed. And I don't want to neglect ministry to donors and potential donors by failing to ask them to give sacrificially to God's Kingdom, either my ministry or elsewhere.
As I've lived in this holy discontent, I've seen God spur me on and provide in unexpected ways, stretching my faith. And strangely, the holy discontent about fundraising has led to contentment in my whole ministry - God will be faithful!
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