Give Until It Hurts

How can I be faithful to write to you without again including an opportunity for you to financially support either this ministry or this ministry, both recommended by a senior SB mission leader who lived in Yemen? Would each of you who are reading this choose one of these two ministries and give something that you would consider to be "sacrificial" (Mark 12:41-44)? You may not think that you are rich but compared to these precious Arab image-bearers of their Creator... you are. God has blessed us Americans so that we can be a blessing to others. But we need to be able to discern between our needs and our wants. 2 Corinthians 8:9, 13-15 says, "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake, he became poor so that you by his poverty might become rich.... For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. As it is written, 'Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.' "

Before summer, we prayed for work opportunities for our 3 youngest kids and God provided. Petra is working fast-food and hopes to begin a cleaning job when she gets her driver's license soon. Henry is working in concrete as he did last year. Nehemiah is working two half days on a farm & looking for more work.