Trip Fundraisers

Dear Sixty Trip Followers,

                When I first announced my upcoming walk across Tennessee months ago, several  people asked me if I was doing this as a fundraiser. My answer initially was ‘no’, but the more I thought about it, I didn’t want to waste a trip just in case I was able to help some that truly need help.  So, though my walk is not officially a fundraiser, I do ask that every one of you please consider at least helping out.

                So, I will briefly summarize each and show how each can be reached. All three have one thing in common, a strong desire in their ministry to follow biblical standards and to be as Christ centered as possible.

                Compassion International and World Orphans are two ministries whose goals are to help orphans in the poorest areas of the world by pairing them with churches in countries around the world.

www.actforcompassion.com/60trip   (As I spoke to a man named Nenio at Compassion who helped me set up this account, he shared with me that he was sponsored for 12 years by Compassion Int. and was led to be a follower of Jesus by this ministry and is now pasturing a church in the Phillipines.)

 https://worldorphans.kindful.com/campaign/davids-60-trip

If people would like to give by check please have them make it them out to World Orphans and put "David's 60 Trip Campaign" on the memo.

                The third ministry I have picked is one I have been personally involved in for 12 years now as a volunteer speaker. It is Voice of the Martyrs. It was started when founder, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian pastor, was arrested shortly after WW2 just because he was a Christian leader and was imprisoned for 3 times for a total of 14 years. He was tortured and isolated for much of this time. After arriving in the US, Richard and his wife, Sabina started VOM as a support and prayer ministry to all Christians around the world who are being persecuted, harassed, imprisoned, and killed for their Christian faith.

                VOM provides funds for people whose spouses are either in jail or prison and are not able to get a job within a territory that has a Christian minority population. Many times, after attacks and bombings of Christian churches and homes, injured Christians are left outside of Emergency Rooms to die because the hospital leaders will not allow admittance of Christians. VOM Medical travels the world to help put these people’s lives back together again. Also, VOM provides Bibles by the hundreds of thousands all over the world, and also seminary training for new believers.

To contact VOM, simply call Barbara Matlock at 918-337-8015 and tell her you want to donate to David’s ‘60trip’.  To learn more about VOM, go to www.persecution.com .

                Please consider contacting one or all three of these ministries and give what you can. David

ps. I am not asking any of you to donate any certain amount, if any. But if you are touched by any of these needs, you may want to consider a 'per mile' pledge. I will be roughly walking 130 miles across Tenn. so you may consider $.10 a mile, $1.00 a mile. $10,000 a mile, or simply donate $10, or $25, etc. But don't feel that you have to do this in any way.