Sarah and Keane

If you read Keane’s blog post on Friday, you found out that we were at 62% of monthly pledges needed. We created a potential breakdown of how we could be fully funded if we received certain pledge amounts, and in this scenario we needed 23 individuals to support this ministry on a monthly basis.

Just wanted to let everyone know that, two days later, we are at 67%! We thank God for continuing to answer the prayers of so many people. We trust God and his timing, and while we don’t know what the future holds or even where we will be living in four weeks, we know that God is good, that he intimately knows this situation, and that he will take care of us (even if that doesn’t look the way we always want it to look!). We are praying that God’s will would be done. Thank you for praying with and for us!

So here’s a revamped breakdown of our support needs. If we received the following monthly pledges, we would be fully funded.

2 people support us at $25 a month (down from 15 people!)
8 people support us at $50 a month (down from 25 people!)
7 people support us at $100 a month (down from 15 people!)
1 person to support us at $150 a month (down from 2!)
1 person to support us at $200 a month

Here’s another support-raising update!

We have hit 62% of the monthly pledges needed. In addition, we have raised the entire $12,000 needed for start-up costs in moving to Germany. Praise God!

We continue to need monthly pledges of $1,694 in order to be totally 100% funded for Germany. New staff orientation at BFA begins in just over 3 weeks. We are praying to God to supply these needs!

For the visually inclined out there, here is one possible scenario in which we could reach our goal of being 100% funded.

If we received the following monthly pledges for support, we would be fully funded!

4 people support us at $25 a month (down from 15 people!)
9 people support us at $50 a month (down from 25 people!)
8 people support us at $100 a month (down from 15 people!)
1 person to support us at $150 a month (down from 2!)
1 person to support us at $200 a month

Some people have expressed a desire to financially support us but have been hesitant to offer what feels to them like a “small” amount. Friends, you have no idea the impact that a $10, $20, or $30 monthly pledge can make. We believe that God calls people from every economic background to give, and we believe that he sees that generosity and blesses it. We are so blessed by those who generously give, even if the actual amount seems small. You are our ministry partners no matter what, and we love and appreciate each one of you.

If you would like to become monthly partners, please click this link. If you have more questions or would like to meet and discuss this, please email us at keaneandsarah@gmail.com and we would LOVE to meet with you.

You would not recognize this apartment. All the parents were in the past week and made a massive dent in the great packing challenge. My parents are staying this whole week and then driving my car back to North Carolina, so they have been hard at work doing everything from packing to cleaning the bathroom to taking us out for one last meal at Mai Thai.

Sunday night, however, we were planning on taking a break from packing to go out to eat in the city with my parents and our good friends Jim and Caitlyn. They needed to make a “quick stop” at a friend’s house to pick something up…which turned into a huge, beautiful, German-themed going away party for us! All of Keane’s frisbee friends from the past 5+ years were there. There were brats and polka music and even an accordion! Our hearts are so full. Thank you, everyone, for making us feel so loved! A special thanks to Malz and Chris, who were the most amazing party hosts ever.

We will miss you all!

Hello dear friends and family,

It’s been a little while since we gave y’all an update on support raising. We have that and a couple other things to announce as well!

We are at 55% of our monthly support needs! Two weeks ago we were at 37%, so this is really encouraging news, and we are so grateful for the ways in which God has been calling both friends and complete strangers to join our support team. There is still a long way to go until we can purchase our plane tickets (we need 90% for that to happen), but we know that God is in control and we are praying for his will to be done in this and every situation in our lives.

We were greatly encouraged by a weekend retreat with our church’s young adults group. We were up on a lake in Northern(ish) Wisconsin…surrounded by lovely nature and wonderful friends…it was a good weekend of games, reading by the lake, tubing, and eating meals and s’mores together. This weekend, we are really looking forward to seeing both sets of our parents in the same place!! We will be getting lots of help from them in packing up our apartment as we anticipate moving out at the end of July.

We have two very quick announcements to make:

1. We are speaking at our church’s prayer meeting this Wednesday at 7pm! Please email us for more info: keaneandsarah@gmail.com
2. We are thinking about putting together a group of people that we can email on a weekly basis with prayer requests. We love sharing some general prayer requests with everyone through our newsletters and blog posts, but we sometimes have very specific things that we need prayer for that week, and so we would like to be able to email those things out to people every Monday. If you’re interested in that, please shoot us an email at keaneandsarah@gmail.com or leave a comment on this post and let us know!