Letter

Dear Family and Friends,

Brittney and I would love to share with you where God is leading us after we graduate from Northwest Missouri State University in May; Joe with a Bachelors degree in Accounting and Corporate Finance and Brittney with a Bachelors degree in Elementary and Early Childhood Education. God has called us into missionary work.

At this point, we will take our college education and apply it to New Mission Systems International. NMSI is a missionary sending agency that finds, trains, places, and supports missionaries through many different missionary projects. Most of the training is done from the Center of Global Outreach in Ft. Myers, FL which is its home office, and it is where we will work. We have met representatives from NMSI several times, and they are continuously asking for workers in our areas: finance and education. We assure you that the work we will do is a huge need among all missionaries, not just NMSI.

To be a little more specific, Joe will work with accounts receivable. This means he will be busy processing hundreds of checks each day. He will make sure that each gift is deposited in the bank, and it is applied to the correct missionary account. Brittney will work with their COATkids program, which is designed to train missionaries’ children to be mission minded so that the whole family can work together on the mission field. COATkids runs alongside the COAT program, which is the training program that all new missionaries begin with.

We will begin with COAT, also. COAT is designed to encourage a Christ-centered Community, while offering an Orientation of NMSI, Assessing what God has placed on the hearts of missionaries-in-training, and provides basic Training on how to be a missionary. There are three sessions of COAT each year, and we are scheduled to attend from May 20 – July 17, 2009. Lord willing, we will get to work by August, right after COAT finishes up.

In order to do this kind of work, we need to find prayer partners and financial supporters. Even before that, we are in the works of building a mailing list, and we are looking for people who would like to receive our newsletters. Among our prayer concerns, we will be moving far away from home and family and we will be sacrificing regular paychecks to volunteer full-time. Financially, the two-month COAT program will cost $5,540, and we have been given a suggested budget of $3,000 per month to raise in order to work.

Would you partner with us? We would love to partner with you and share with you how God is working through our lives and through NMSI. We really need prayer partners and monthly gifts. We trust that you honoring God as good stewards whether or not we fit in the picture at this time. If you have any questions, we are more than willing to address them. Thank you!