Well, the reason I am posting this announcement is that I need to bring everyone up to date on a very difficult decision that I recently had to make.
As many of you know, it has been a rough road for us in the support raising process, and after 2+ years of intensive support discovery we were able to reach 50% of what we needed to continue in my role with YMI.
So with our current financial situation in mind, we prayerfully continued to seek God as to what we should do. The bottom line is that I resigned from YMI, effective at the end of July.
The reason was simply, lack of funding.
As I think back on the things I’ve done to: get the word out, touch base with, explain the vision and ask people to consider joining our team, I honestly don’t know what else I could do that I haven’t already tried. I’ve made phone calls, written letters, e-mails, started a Facebook group, written articles, spoke in churches, camps, conferences, taken Pastors out to lunch, sent out support packets, followed up with folks who received them, and the overwhelming response I’ve gotten from the hundreds of churches and individuals I’ve contacted is pretty much the same message…
”Brent, we love what you’re doing with YMI, we’re just not in a position to take on new missionaries right now, the economy has really strapped us.”
I loved this article in a recent edition of the local paper ... and if you have adult children living in your home ... or if you are over the age of 18 and are bunking in with "the parentals," this is a good read.
