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My wife is 32 weeks pregnant this week.  For the non-parent males in the audience, that’s 8 more weeks until full term.  Additionally, non-parent males, it’s not a cakewalk to carry around a child that is literally snuggling with your bladder, and punching it from time to time.

Yet today we hit the road on a support trip.  I’m carting her all the way up to Asheville for a few days, and then down I-26 on Sunday to South Carolina for a couple of days.  During that time we’ll be meeting with interested folks to share the amazing things God is doing around our region, and challenging folks to partner with us financially and prayerfully. On Tuesday we’ll be coming back through Winston-Salem.  How long we stay around here is up in the air.

Here’s where you come in.  I’d love it if you’d do one of three things:

  1. If you are into praying (I hear it burns calories and is good for circulation) I’d appreciate it if you’d pray for God to lead us to the right folks with whom to partner.
  2. If you are in Asheville or the Upstate, and you’d like to hear about all that God is doing in and through us, shoot us a message to holler@benandjacq.com and let’s schedule a time.  Better yet, see where you fit into our schedule (and propose a time to meet) by clicking here.
  3. If you are not in one of those places and want to see us get back to our assignment fully funded by August (our prayer goal), put your money where your heart is by clicking here. (follow a three step process that follows.  All the cool kids are doing it)

I’m carting around a very pregnant wife and a toddler, because I think this mission is worth it.  We’re so thrilled by what God is doing, and we really want you to know about it.  Prayerfully, this can be a trip that catapults us closer to being fully funded, so that we can be about reaching college students with the greatest story ever told. Now go on back up there and click a link or two.

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Dear American Christianity: Part Two.

June 21, 2010

(to the pastors) If the congregation is not generous, it may be because you* aren’t sharing the gospel with them. A biblical way to motivate people to give is to repeatedly show them how much they’ve been given, and how great the needs are elsewhere.  A person who understands the gospel, that Jesus Paid it [...]

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Dear American Christianity: Part One.

June 17, 2010

If you’d* all give money to your church, pastors and others on staff there wouldn’t need to be bi-vocational to feed their family. 9% of North Americans who classify themselves as “born again” tithed in 2004.  We spend more as a culture on weight-loss programs or pet food than we give to the church. (source) If [...]

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If You have Nothing to Hide, Hide Nothing: a look at the financial transparency of Christian organizations.

June 15, 2010

Does transparency matter?  Not according to the likes of Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, and TD Jakes. I spent some time recently on a the website of a ministry called MinstryWatch.com (the  online database component of Wall Watchers) to see, among other things, how Campus Crusade for Christ (the ministry my wife [...]

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Let’s Prove the Numbers Wrong: a look at Fundraising in the Digital Age.

May 26, 2010

Ken Summerlin had such a good comment on my frustrated post about violence in the name of fund raising that as I started replying to it, I found out that it deserved it’s own post.  Here’s a excerpt of Ken’s comment: …Unfortunately, telemarketers and political candidates have so abused the phone as a contact medium, [...]

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The time when I most want to punch another human.

May 25, 2010

Here’s a tip:  If a missionary calls you on the phone, and name-drops a friend of yours in trying to set up an appointment to meet and share more about their ministry, it’s really best to not treat that missionary like a telemarketer in a cubicle somewhere south of Jakarta. Heck, it’s not even ok [...]

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Perspective check, 1…2…3?

May 20, 2010

I got three emails yesterday.  2 of them were people letting us know they are no longer able to partner with us financially–to the tune of -$125 per month. The other was from Piter. I was too busy wallowing in poor-me-land (or more accurately, trying to evaluate the situation to help to avoid wallowing there, [...]

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Ministry Partner Development.

April 20, 2010

We don’t like to call it fund raising.  Not because we want to trick people or call it something that fools people out of their money, but because at the most foundational level, it’s not fund raising (though funds are a great byproduct). At the most foundational level, when I call someone to set up [...]

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An Open Letter to Single People.

March 30, 2010

“I’d love to give to your ministry, but I’m single.” More than one person has laid this line on me.  I’ll challenge them to partner with us financially, and then they will (with a serious tone) tell me that the reason they don’t/can’t give is because they are single.  Like giving is something that only [...]

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When Would I Tell You to Stop Supporting Our Ministry?

March 11, 2010

Check out Exodus 36:2-7.  And take notes. I was blown away by two things: The people were so committed that they gave more than enough. The workers were so committed they told them it was more than enough, and to stop giving. I wrestled this morning with the point at which I would tell folks [...]

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