Hi everyone,
This is very humbling to have to write, but we are asking for a little extra help in a few areas. Amanda and I have had a few unexpected bills the past few months on top of our monthly expenses. Josh has had some back problems the past few months and started seeing a chiropractor, but by the time he finishes in the next few weeks the total bill will be about $800. We have been living off of about $900/month for the past year and large one-time donations, which have sustained us. Ideally, we would need $1,900/month. To help pay our bills, we recently got a cleaning job for five hours a week, and Amanda also applied for a relief (substitute) teaching job, but we've had to pay about $300 in application fees, and she won't be able to start until January. Since we are on a lighter workload for the January discipleship school, we will be able to work about 20 hours a week, the max hours allowed with our student visa, on top of what we'll do for the school. We will also be planning for leading our Surf Skate Snow themed discipleship school in June 2017.
Thankfully we haven't had to move out of our current apartment in August like we originally thought, but when we come back to Australia in January after our visit to Michigan, we have to find a new place to live, which will be about $1100/month compared to the $650/month we are paying now.
The biggest issue right now is that we need more monthly support in order to pay our rent and living expenses. We are supposed to pay $1,139 in a week for our rent/staff fees by October 27th and we don't have that right now, so we are just praying for God to provide.
God has provided for us when we didn't think we'd make it and God has showed us that He is faithful, but we also cannot do it without your partnership. If you could help us out in anyway, we'd appreciate your help. Please pray for God's provision and whether or not he is asking you to play a part in that.
We love you guys.
This is very humbling to have to write, but we are asking for a little extra help in a few areas. Amanda and I have had a few unexpected bills the past few months on top of our monthly expenses. Josh has had some back problems the past few months and started seeing a chiropractor, but by the time he finishes in the next few weeks the total bill will be about $800. We have been living off of about $900/month for the past year and large one-time donations, which have sustained us. Ideally, we would need $1,900/month. To help pay our bills, we recently got a cleaning job for five hours a week, and Amanda also applied for a relief (substitute) teaching job, but we've had to pay about $300 in application fees, and she won't be able to start until January. Since we are on a lighter workload for the January discipleship school, we will be able to work about 20 hours a week, the max hours allowed with our student visa, on top of what we'll do for the school. We will also be planning for leading our Surf Skate Snow themed discipleship school in June 2017.
Thankfully we haven't had to move out of our current apartment in August like we originally thought, but when we come back to Australia in January after our visit to Michigan, we have to find a new place to live, which will be about $1100/month compared to the $650/month we are paying now.
The biggest issue right now is that we need more monthly support in order to pay our rent and living expenses. We are supposed to pay $1,139 in a week for our rent/staff fees by October 27th and we don't have that right now, so we are just praying for God to provide.
God has provided for us when we didn't think we'd make it and God has showed us that He is faithful, but we also cannot do it without your partnership. If you could help us out in anyway, we'd appreciate your help. Please pray for God's provision and whether or not he is asking you to play a part in that.
We love you guys.