During the last few months my online faith team outreach has lost major funding. We have paid the bills and kept the webpage going and growing, but salary needs have literally gone begging. Just as the ministry is poised for explosive growth, the money for salary slows to a trickle. Enough for ministry, but not for salary. 

 

Last month I sent out this email:

 

 

God has humbled me. I don't like these kind of requests, but this is exactly what I believe God was leading me to do.

 

I have looked for writing jobs, for projects in communications, for photography and design projects, and for Press Agent gigs. 

 

In all, I felt torn between God's calling and God's prevailing silence.

 

Then, in the midst of silience, came the unexpected. Donors responded with promises of August gifts, churches contacted me to speak, and a friend who is developing a new product called me to consult as a press agent. 

 

The silence was just making room for the unexpected. We are not out of the woods, by any means, but God is present and faithfull. 

 

I certainly identify with Jacob, who, overwhelmed with loneliness and alienation and anxiety, laid down on a rock to sleep. Then in his sleep God woke him up. It changed everything. When morning came his first words were, "Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it."

 

He's there... whether we know it or not!