It is not really in my nature to solicit financial support. That sounds a bit odd considering that when I started working for Amor that was the only way I was going to earn a paycheck. But it is true I have never been very comfortable at asking for money. It is probably the reason I am so bad at fund raising. But, that is exactly what I am going to do.
Over the years Amor has gradually changed the way I have been paid so that now I don’t have to rely on your financial gifts to maintain a steady income. Unfortunately, I have to admit that that has made me lazy in my support raising. Like I said I was never very good at it and I relied heavily on my wife to supplement my pay in order to get by. But now that my pay does not fluctuate with the gifts you supply I really have let my responsibility for fund raising slide. As a result those that support me have dwindled to a faithful few.
You see, even though I now have a fixed salary the money for that salary needs to be raised by the ministry. Amor allows us to raise support to supplement our income an additional 10% to encourage us to continue raising support to cover our salaries. It should be easier for me to do. I no longer have to try to get people to support and to partner with me. Instead I get to ask people to join the efforts of a ministry that I truly believe in.
I love this ministry. I have loved it from the time I went on that first mission trip. I loved it the day I joined the team, and I love it eight years later. Why you may ask. Well, I have a one word answer to that question, “hope”. There are many things that Amor does and many of them are never seen by our participants. We are not just a house building ministry. We are a ministry that serves a group of pastors the likes of whose faithfulness is rare to come by. It is through these men and women that God offers hope to not only the physically poor but also to those poor spiritually.
I have also had the honor of seeing so many people, who come to serve by building homes, find hope in a world that seems filled with greed and selfishness. Hope that the world can see real change when injustice is so rampant.
So if you are so inclined please join us in this mission of hope. Really that word should be love. For it is out of God’s love that we have found hope and it is out this hope that that we find the strength to love. So if you are inclined to join us in this mission of love. Please do so.
You can donate online at: http://www.amor.org/give
If you what to support me specifically you can do so online here: https://www.amor.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=444
