EMERGENCY!
From David Walters
Hello every one of you that know and love our ministry. May 8th was my birthday, where I reached the grand old age of 84. Kathie is not too far behind me, she will be 78 this November, you would never think it. Most people of our age have retired and if they have been successful, enjoy their retirement and not only live off of their pensions, but also their investments.
Just to let you know we have no investments, no pensions from this government and no medical insurance. We made several investments in the past many of which were recommended by pastors we respected, but all of them went down the tube. We finally woke up and got away from “Christian Crooks” at a cost.
By the grace of God we are still around. At the height of our ministry I was away 42 weekends a year including six overseas trips and six national conferences. Later, Kathie began to travel a lot more as I slowed down. Today neither of us can travel every week to minister, it’s too much.
Kathie still seems to work 24/7 on her phone and laptop ministering to people from all over the world. Apart from my writing, occasional speaking engagements, imparting my anointing and vision to younger ministers, (we are all called to minister) I also try to do the housework, because Kathie has been gone a lot. It's a challenge as we have a large piece of property about 3000 square feet on two and half acres. This is where we have our home and offices.
Our Property is old by American standards, built in 1975. It continually needs repairs, updating and maintenance. A smaller place would be more economic, but then we would have no room for offices and the storage of our books and office equipment. I.E. computers and printers. We are not ready or able to retire from traveling yet, as we do have financial challenges.
On my face book I had about 225 people wish me a “Happy birthday.” Many wrote prayers which said, God would continue to bless and open doors and prosper me, which I appreciated. Of course. I’ve had those messages sent to me countless times. So here comes the crunch:
We have around fifteen faithful monthly supporters. Some of which are able to give larger amounts and others small amounts. If it wasn’t for them, we would have a really hard time.
Today the profit on our books and CD's are minimal, usually just a couple of dollars as we want our books to be affordable. Just a little more than enough to get more printed when needed. We do better on E-Books and E-CD's for which we thank the Lord.
A few nights ago, God woke me up and showed me the mistake we were making. Kathie has thousands of followers on her mail list, and several thousand on her face book. She gets hundreds of emails from her "duckies" who have been hugely blessed by her ministry. She usually spends half the night helping people, yet ninety nine percent don’t ever support us financially. Yet many of our followers are getting revelation and teaching which has really set them free from religion and bondage.
As the Holy Spirit began to show me what to do, I got excited and couldn't sleep anymore. If a good number of people would commit to $20 a month, (which is far less than most people tithe to their church) we would quickly solve our problems and do the things we have to do. We could clear our debt, maintain repairs and upkeep to our property and still be available to do some mission trips and continue to fund our school in Kenya.
Some of you want to be part of a more intimate group and get more personal instruction, so Kathie is thinking about that too. Also there are many people who love our ministry who no longer support a local church and don’t regularly support any ministry.
“If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?” (James.2:16)
There may be some that will respond to this message by saying, "One should never ask for help, but just trust God for their needs." But Jesus said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be open unto you." So we are asking the "Christ in You" to help us.
I then realized how successful ministries do very well financially, they have committed supporters, who are "partners." So this is our plan: We need 400 "believing, believers" who love our ministry, to commit to donate $20.00 a month for one year. That’s only.66 cents a day. We are not asking anyone of you for a fortune, just finding 400 of you who are willing come on board and help us end our financial problem and continue to be a blessing to everyone.
May God Bless You.
David & Kathie
From David Walters
Hello every one of you that know and love our ministry. May 8th was my birthday, where I reached the grand old age of 84. Kathie is not too far behind me, she will be 78 this November, you would never think it. Most people of our age have retired and if they have been successful, enjoy their retirement and not only live off of their pensions, but also their investments.
Just to let you know we have no investments, no pensions from this government and no medical insurance. We made several investments in the past many of which were recommended by pastors we respected, but all of them went down the tube. We finally woke up and got away from “Christian Crooks” at a cost.
By the grace of God we are still around. At the height of our ministry I was away 42 weekends a year including six overseas trips and six national conferences. Later, Kathie began to travel a lot more as I slowed down. Today neither of us can travel every week to minister, it’s too much.
Kathie still seems to work 24/7 on her phone and laptop ministering to people from all over the world. Apart from my writing, occasional speaking engagements, imparting my anointing and vision to younger ministers, (we are all called to minister) I also try to do the housework, because Kathie has been gone a lot. It's a challenge as we have a large piece of property about 3000 square feet on two and half acres. This is where we have our home and offices.
Our Property is old by American standards, built in 1975. It continually needs repairs, updating and maintenance. A smaller place would be more economic, but then we would have no room for offices and the storage of our books and office equipment. I.E. computers and printers. We are not ready or able to retire from traveling yet, as we do have financial challenges.
On my face book I had about 225 people wish me a “Happy birthday.” Many wrote prayers which said, God would continue to bless and open doors and prosper me, which I appreciated. Of course. I’ve had those messages sent to me countless times. So here comes the crunch:
We have around fifteen faithful monthly supporters. Some of which are able to give larger amounts and others small amounts. If it wasn’t for them, we would have a really hard time.
Today the profit on our books and CD's are minimal, usually just a couple of dollars as we want our books to be affordable. Just a little more than enough to get more printed when needed. We do better on E-Books and E-CD's for which we thank the Lord.
A few nights ago, God woke me up and showed me the mistake we were making. Kathie has thousands of followers on her mail list, and several thousand on her face book. She gets hundreds of emails from her "duckies" who have been hugely blessed by her ministry. She usually spends half the night helping people, yet ninety nine percent don’t ever support us financially. Yet many of our followers are getting revelation and teaching which has really set them free from religion and bondage.
As the Holy Spirit began to show me what to do, I got excited and couldn't sleep anymore. If a good number of people would commit to $20 a month, (which is far less than most people tithe to their church) we would quickly solve our problems and do the things we have to do. We could clear our debt, maintain repairs and upkeep to our property and still be available to do some mission trips and continue to fund our school in Kenya.
Some of you want to be part of a more intimate group and get more personal instruction, so Kathie is thinking about that too. Also there are many people who love our ministry who no longer support a local church and don’t regularly support any ministry.
“If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?” (James.2:16)
There may be some that will respond to this message by saying, "One should never ask for help, but just trust God for their needs." But Jesus said, "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be open unto you." So we are asking the "Christ in You" to help us.
I then realized how successful ministries do very well financially, they have committed supporters, who are "partners." So this is our plan: We need 400 "believing, believers" who love our ministry, to commit to donate $20.00 a month for one year. That’s only.66 cents a day. We are not asking anyone of you for a fortune, just finding 400 of you who are willing come on board and help us end our financial problem and continue to be a blessing to everyone.
May God Bless You.
David & Kathie
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