Thursday, March 1, 2012

Prayer Letter

I've decided to start posting our monthly ministry prayer letters here. Some of you may already receive them in email or printed form. We never tire or hearing how you pray for us and maybe how some of our ministry stories affect you or ways that you see God working in your lives! We love comments :)


Dear Friends and Family,

Thank You!  Thank You!  Thank You!
Those written words do not seem to be enough to express how grateful we are for the response we have received since making our financial support needs known to you.  We are so encouraged that our monthly support has increased by 7%.  We have received over $400 more in monthly support. 
Some of you have begun giving for the first time.  Thank You!

Some of you have increased your faithful monthly support by $5, $10, or even more per month.  Thank You!

We also received many generous year-end donations that allowed us to almost reach our entire goal for July through December.  Thank You!

While we rejoice in the way the Lord has provided for our financial needs, we still are not fully supported.  Please join us in praying that God would continue to raise up new people that would be excited to partner with us in our church planting efforts among the urban poor.  We are now at 72% of our monthly goal.  We believe that God can provide the remaining 28% or $1000 per month that we need to be fully supported.  We could share many stories with you of how God has provided financially for us with perfect timing and we trust He will continue to do so!

We know many of you love our ministry, but also love hearing about our two little boys.  Benjamin turns three years old this month!  It feels like he is ready to walk out the door to kindergarten already with the thoughts and ideas that he comes up with.  We are always a bit amazed by him!  Nathaniel is 15 months old and still a squirmy bundle of joy.  He loves following his brother everywhere he goes and gets all the attention with his cute dimples and ready giggles.  Anything Ben can do, Nate thinks he can do too!  I wonder where he gets that?

Serving Christ Among the Urban Poor,

Ryan, Amber, Benjamin and Nathaniel Carter

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