{"id":8766,"date":"2023-01-05T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2023-01-05T13:42:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:42:14","slug":"more-support-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=8766","title":{"rendered":"More Support Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>It probably comes at no surprise to you that over the last couple of years the support for the Delp Family as Serve Global personnel with the Evangelical Covenant Church has slowly been dropping since the covid pandemic and the ensuing economic turmoil that has followed.\u00a0 Our support has dipped to its lowest point of 85% recently and seems that is our current support level.\u00a0 As missionaries in Ecuador, we are supposed to remain 100% supported and up until a couple of years ago, that had not been a problem.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>As you all are evaluating your finances in the new year 2023, we wanted to ask you to consider to either starting or increasing a monthly commitment to support us.\u00a0 We are planning on our next Home Assignment in 2024 but until then we need to try to have our support not continue to decline and hopefully we can have it improve.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>We know that all of you are praying for us and our ministy and that still remains the most important!\u00a0 Thank you so much for your faithfulness in praying and giving these years.\u00a0 We did just want to let you know about our financial support situation.\u00a0 Click the picture below to start a new commitment. (We did include some instructions below)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giving.covchurch.org\/personnel-detail\/JoelandKimDelp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8767 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/DSC5340-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/DSC5340-750x500.jpg 750w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/DSC5340-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/DSC5340-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/DSC5340-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/DSC5340-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The giving page for us is a little bit confusing.\u00a0 If you are wanting to start a new monthly commitment, this is what the website will look like when you click on the link above:<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8768\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/Giving_Page-750x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/Giving_Page-750x356.jpg 750w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/Giving_Page-1024x485.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/Giving_Page-768x364.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/Giving_Page-1536x728.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/01\/Giving_Page-2048x971.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Once you get to this page, just put the amount that you want to donate monthly in space before &#8220;Give&#8221; that is below our names.\u00a0 Once you do that, click &#8220;Give&#8221; and you will be directed to a page where you can enter the rest of the information.\u00a0 On that page, make sure to check the check box that says &#8220;Recurring&#8221; so that way you can set it up as a monthly donation.\u00a0 Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=8766&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It probably comes at no surprise to you that over the last couple of years the support for the Delp Family as Serve Global personnel with the Evangelical Covenant Church has slowly been dropping since the covid pandemic and the ensuing economic turmoil that has followed.\u00a0 Our support has dipped to its lowest point of &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=8766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,60,72],"tags":[171,24649,24650,24651],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry","category-prayer-requests","category-updates","tag-evangelical-covenant-church","tag-ministry","tag-prayer-requests","tag-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More Support Needed - Delplog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=8766\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Support Needed - Delplog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It probably comes at no surprise to you that over the last couple of years the support for the Delp Family as Serve Global personnel with the Evangelical Covenant Church has slowly been dropping since the covid pandemic and the ensuing economic turmoil that has followed.\u00a0 Our support has dipped to its lowest point of &hellip; 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