Year-end Financial Needs
In two months, we’ll complete our five-year anniversary as your missionaries to the nations and the next generation! Throughout that time, we’ve been able to update you as fully-funded missionaries. However, as we near the end of 2017, that is no longer the case and we need your help. Our growing family, increased impact and ministry expenses, and gradual supporter attrition has left us with a
$28,000 to raise above our normal monthly giving by December 31
st.
Will you please help us with a year-end gift beyond your normal giving? Your faithful generosity makes stories like the story below possible.
To make your tax-deductible donation to support our work in the gospel, please follow this link or mail a check (with 'Luptons' in the subject line) to:
MTW
P.O. Box 744165
Atlanta, GA 30374-4165
Meet Sam
Sam is a senior in high school who has attended our ministries for the past year and a half. Sam struck us as a jovial kid, who was non-religious, but who seemed content with his life. Then one night last spring changed that perception as one of our interns found Sam on the verge of ending his own life. Since that time, we’ve rallied around Sam, prayed for Sam, and asked Sam hard questions about goodness, contentment, reality, and faith in Jesus.
A month ago the text message came: “Hey can you talk today? I know it’s on short notice, but it’s very important.
I believe now, more than anything.” How thrilling to follow up!
Is Sam a follower of Jesus now? Not yet. His belief is in an infinite, personal god, but not yet in the God who put on flesh and blood to live among us and save sinners. It appears that God, our God, is at work in Sam’s heart. He’s even reading the Gospel of John. Pray that Sam (whose name we changed) would meet the One he feels stirring in his heart.
Pray that Sam would meet Jesus. And while you're at it, pray for the Sams of all ages whom we serve as they search spiritually this Christmas season.
With deep gratitude,
Andrew with Laura Kate, Fox, Evie, & Lucy
Our annual Thanksgiving community meal was a big success. A little too big, you might say. We'll need to have multiple shifts next year to fit and feed the nearly 500 in attendance at this important outreach event.
Andrew and Kelly Baxley welcomed their little boy this week. Silas Scott Baxley came into the world bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Thanks for praying for a healthy delivery and a good experience in a new culture, language, and hospital system for our new teammates!
These MKs have a great friendship. This was their attempt at a sleepover, which lasted about an hour with five kids under age five in a tiny room...
