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Urgent Prayer Needed

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Previous Post – Much Ado About Judgment

As many of you have already heard from my Facebook or Twitter stream (or perhaps from watching the news), our friend & community member Michelle Funderburg had to fly home to Denver to be with her family to face the tragedy of two deaths.  For reasons unknown, her 12 year old cousin shot and killed his parents, then attempted to kill his two younger siblings.  The details are horrific, made more shocking by the fact that the boy had never shown any signs of such violence or anger before.

Please keep them in your prayers.  Thankfully, they are part of a large and supportive family who doing their best to bring the surviving children through this, as well as doing what is best for the boy who committed the acts.  This will be a journey of many years, so your prayers are very appreciated.

With Michelle’s permission, I also wrote a reflection on these events called “While the Blood Dries: Loving Our Enemies” at Tony Campolo’s Red Letter Christian site.  Stop by there and share your thoughts in the comment section.

Finally, as you can imagine, an emergency ticket to fly home to Denver without notice is rather costly.  Most airlines have discontinued their emergency rates, so it has cost Michelle a great deal of money.  As a missionary relying on support, this was a huge hit to her financially.  If you would like to help out, please feel free to contact me.

Tags: Missional
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Help Us Build A Family – Adoption Needs

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Previous Post – Romanticism, Familiarity & Faith

Several years ago, after living through a tragic miscarriage, the unexpected abortion of child we had planned to privately adopt & several other failed attempts to start our family, Kim & I made the decision to pursue adoption from Ethiopia.  At the time, the time line was not expected to be more than a couple of years tops.  That was five years ago.

The past five year have been filled with anticipation, impatience, longing and joy.  Then, just before this last Christmas we received the call from the agency.  We were going to be adopting a beautiful 3 year old boy- Micah James Nigatu Arpin-Ricci.  After so long, the relatively brief wait until we bring him home (hopefully around November) seems an eternity.  We long to share our life with this precious gift of God.

This rapidly approaching event, however, also brings with it the many challenges.  The biggest we face is the cost.  As long term missionaries, we’ve live our lives very simply, managing to live on far less than the average couple, finding ways to subsidize our missions support whenever possible.  The expense of adopting is significant for most people- for us it seemed impossible.  However, to start our family, we would have paid double!

So many of you have already been very generous in your faithful financial support of us as missionaries (which also works to our child’s long term well being).  And many of you have also stood with us in our adoption fund raising endeavors.  We would like to ask you to stand with us again, as we now face some significant costs to finish this journey and bring our little boy home.

Please visit Adopt-a-Pixel to donate directly to this journey.  The remaining costs represent more than I receive in missions support in a single years, so it feels daunting.  However, we know that God provides, often through amazing people like you.

Thanks so much!

Tags: Adoption, family
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