{"id":1874,"date":"2012-06-21T14:43:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2012-06-21T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:45:15","slug":"update-on-financial-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Update on Financial Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have recently learned that our Ministry Account has gotten very low and will remain low or in the red the remainder of our time this year in Ecuador.\u00a0 You may ask, \u201cBut Joel and Kim, how could this be?\u00a0 You have said that you raised all of the support that was needed for your budget and you\u2019ve raised the additional amount that was needed for your 5 month extension?\u201d Yes, you would be correct in your questions and what we have explained about what was raised in the past for what was budgeted.\u00a0 And for that we are compelled to give you all an enormous and grateful THANK YOU for being such wonderful and gracious supporters that have met our needs every time that we have asked!!!!<\/p>\n

The time has arisen again in which we need to ask for help.\u00a0 This has come about not because of the lack of support but because of an overage in spending.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the overage in spending has been out of our control.\u00a0 Things have been more costly for us than what was originally anticipated and for that reason we have gone above the amounts that were budgeted and for what we had raised support for.\u00a0 We prayerfully decided early on in our time in Ecuador that even though we knew that this was going to be the case that if we felt that God was calling us to these ministries that he would meet all of our needs, including those financial ones, even if they went above what was originally planned.<\/p>\n

Let us give you a few examples.\u00a0 We were given a budget of $150 per month for our transportation costs.\u00a0 Well, over the last two years we have had average monthly transportation costs of $425.\u00a0 We were aware of this excess but we decided that God and the National Church were wanting us to serve in the Camp in Santo Domingo and with our most recent Field Study, so we felt that we should keep doing those ministries and he would provide.\u00a0 A second example would be Kim\u2019s recent news that she needed to take a couple of classes in the States.\u00a0 She just got back from a week in Chicago taking a Covenant History class and she\u2019ll be taking a Covenant Theology class in July in St. Paul, MN.\u00a0 These classes have come about because of the fact that we are applying to be Long-Term Missionaries and return to Ecuador!\u00a0 This is exciting for us but also it\u2019s an additional expense.\u00a0 She will have had over $3,000 worth of expenses once everything is said and done for taking these two classes.\u00a0 If you are wondering why she\u2019s not waiting to take them until we return to the States in November, it\u2019s because of the timing for applying for Long-Term Missionary Status and seeking Consecration as Long-Term Missionaries in June of 2013 instead of 2014, which would delay our time getting back to Ecuador.\u00a0 The third and final example is the fact that we have continued taking Spanish classes on and off when we were able to.\u00a0 We had originally only budgeted for the first 6 months.\u00a0 This hasn\u2019t been a major expense because we haven\u2019t done it an extraordinary amount of times but it is an extra expense nonetheless.<\/p>\n

People have often told us before that they would like to have an idea of some of our different costs so that way they can support us specifically for one or several specific items.\u00a0 Well, we provided a list of some of those items below to help you if you would like to support a specific cost.<\/p>\n

We wanted to again provide the ways in which you can support us financially.\u00a0 Those are: 1) Send a check to: Covenant World Mission, 8303 W. Higgins Rd., Chicago, IL 60631 and specify that the check is for \u201cJoel & Kim Delp STM Account\u201d; 2) Provide a one time or recurring gift online by clicking here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/mission\/jkdelp\/#more-4857<\/a><\/p>\n

Lists of costs that have caused the over expenditure<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n