His Dwelling Place

As we are totally at the Lord’s direction, through the year we are in continual prayer as to where and what He wants us to minister. As the Holy Spirit reveals this to us, we connect with our host pastor in that nation and ask them to pray about our coming. We never go to any place we are not first invited. We do not solicit places to minister. We leave that up to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

As we are continually contacted by Pastors in various nations via social media, we will vet them for about two years before we agree to go minister. This helps us to determine their motive for inviting us and the ways in which we might serve them.

We have host pastors in each nation or region of a nation. They arrange all the physical needs. They set locations, venues, accommodations, and invite pastors and those to be in attendance. They arrange food, housing and transportation.

This is all done in conjunction with our approval as to what our budget will allow. We are in constant communication.

We have host pastors in each nation or region of a nation. They arrange all the physical needs. They set locations, venues, accommodations, and invite pastors and those to be in attendance. They arrange food, housing and transportation.

This is all done in conjunction with my approval as to what our budget will allow. We are in constant communication.

Our funds come from those believers who have a heart to give into this ministry. These funds provide for the ministry that takes place.

Any short fall to what we raise, plus our own personal living comes out of our social security and a small retirement fund.

The funds given for missions go directly to the mission trip. None of the given monies go for any overhead. Our personal expenses come from our own funds. In forty years of ministry, we have never taken a salary out of the people’s giving, church or missions. We have always supported ourselves.

So, what happens when we do not get enough for what is planned. We cut back on what we do while we are there. Which in our heart is lost ministry for His Kingdom…

Transportation is a huge cost!

In Malawi last year, a rental car for 10 days was almost $2000. Flights round trip are between $4000 to $10,000 depending on the number of nations in which we minister per trip. Last year on one trip we had a total of 12 flights and two bus rides.

Food, housing, transportation for local pastors, and attendees are a substantial expense. The rental of halls or churches, grounds, lighting, sound, etc. all contribute to the overall budget.

What happens when we do not get the needed funding…

We feed a less nutritious meal (broth soup) …
They walk further to the meetings…
They sleep on the ground when necessary
(at times with their families) …
They sit on the dirt floors, no chairs, no benches rented…

What am I saying… when we are called to go; we go. Everything is used for the ministry to the people to give them the absolute truth of God’s Word.

We take teams (men, women, children with parents) to safe places within our ministry countries.

These include:

Spring 2025: Philippines, Taiwan, and Singapore

Summer 2025: Malawi (two locations), Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria

We have a separate section dedicated to the ongoing ministries we have established, how they are conducted and the funding needed. It is linked here.

In Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda, and the Philippines, nearly 60% of the women and 40% of the men cannot read or write in the rural areas where we minister. Giving them a Bible does them no good, until we teach them to read. This is done using the Bible in their native language as the textbook used to learn to read.

This brings them to the third grade level of reading.

At this time, we have about 300 students learning to read. Some of them are Muslims learning to read by using the Bible.

THIS IS A FREE CLASS FOR THE STUDENTS!

Our cost breakdown is as follows:

3 book teachers set… $20
3 book student set… $20
Multiply that by 20 students per church
– 10 students from the church
– 10 student (non-believers) from the village
That becomes $400.
The total for one Literacy School (a two-year course) is $420
Multiply that by 100 villages and it becomes… $42,000.

Raising up the first teacher to “teach the teachers to teach”
One week of training in 5 training areas costs $2000 each,
totally $10,000.

Once trained the local teachers can train other teachers in the area…
Each teacher receives a stipend per month including:
laundry soap, bar soap, petroleum jelly, toothbrush, toothpaste… etc.
adding up to $15 each.

Printing of pastor discipleship training material in local language is $5000.

Printing of Pastor training booklets in local language is another $2500.

100 Bibles in the native language for Pastors without Bibles is $2500.

In Malawi we have 3 institutes, in Uganda, 2, and in Rwanda, another.

More Pastors = More churches = Kingdom Expansion
School tuition for the students is FREE!

Photocopies of textbooks is $15 each per class average (for which the students have no money)

This is a two-year course (22 classes and textbooks) at the Bible Institute level. It gives each student more than enough Biblical education to plant and pastor a church.

Last December we graduated 16 students. One is planting, three are going on as associates in their churches, others were existing pastors who had no formal training.

Currently we have two active schools in Malawi (10 students).
There are four other areas waiting for funding to begin.

There are five pastors waiting to start in Uganda and two in Rwanda.

Cost: Laptop or tablet, purchased ‘used’ or ‘refurbished’, from the USA is between $150 to $350. Solar chargers are $50. Laser printers, toner or ink, and paper is around $500.

As they are away from home they need lunch, which is $20 per student per month. That $200 multiplied by 10 students per school year comes to $2000.

An onsite facilitator is $100 per month totaling $1200 per facility.

Airtime (Internet connectivity) is $25 per month. Annually, per facility, that totals $300.

Annual per facility is $3250

In Pakistan, we have a ministry run by the local church. Each sewing center is equipped with 10 sewing machines. Two Muslim widowed women share the machine each week. This is to provide a way for self-sustaining income. As a widow in their culture, they are stripped of everything, their home and everything in it, by the dead husband’s family. They end up with the clothes they are wearing and nothing else. We have personally seen this happen.

These sewing centers are operated by the local pastor’s wife. To attend, the widows must come to a Bible Study conducted each week by the pastor’s wife.

We provide sewing machines, cloth, thread, etc. and training on how to operate the machine. Once the clothing is made, the local pastor’s wife takes it to town to the stores to sell it. The funds are returned to the widow for her living and for the purchase of material for her next garment.

Serving the outcast with the Love and Word of Jesus Christ via this ministry costs $2000 a year per center.

In Pakistan, one of our established ministries is to provide 1st thru 6th grade education to children whose families cannot afford public education.

This school has about 40 students at various grade levels, all receiving Bible teaching daily. They are taught by a volunteer couple, trying to pay for it out of their own pocket, using their own home. This school is strategically placed in the middle of a Muslim town. The team is made up of are qualified teachers with no outside income.

Our goal is to support this school, its teachers, and the students, at a total of $350 per month. This includes school supplies, teaching material, and a stipend for the teachers.

This school is another ministry supported by local pastor and his church located in the midst of a Muslim community.

The annual cost is $4200 per year.

In the Philippines, we’ve establishes a quarterly feeding program for 200-300 underprivileged children. 25% of the children in the Philippines are considered orphans. As there is no divorce in the Philippines, the parents will just leave the children on a doorstep or drop them in the local garbage dump to fend for themselves.

At other times, they are left with grandparents who cannot afford to feed or educate them.

We have local missionaries who prepare, feed, clothe, and present Jesus to these forgotten children.

Each feeding event costs $200.

In all nations and on every trip, the main focus is sharing the Kingdom of God, Salvations, and Healings.

All of the above ministries have been birthed out of the needs the Holy Spirit has revealed to us as we have shared the love of Jesus, prayed for the lost, and healed and delivered souls in these villages and communities.

On an annual basis these portions of the ministry cost about $10,000 to $15,000 per trip. This includes airfare there and back, plus all the in-country ministry expenses.

Our heart is to do three to five of these trips a year. This means $30,000 to $75,000.

When we take teams, we all pitch in to cover costs of flights, room, food, and in-country ministry.

In some places, though, we cannot take teams with us because of the dangers. In those countries, we bear all the costs ourselves.