If you sent financial support to San Gabriel Valley Alliance Church for to a team member, the church should be in touch with you in the next week or so.
Currently, you'll be given two options:
Have your check sent back to you (or a refund check issued, if your check was cashed)
Have your check designated to the [East Asia] or Ensenada short-term teams from SGVAC
If you are interested in supporting the Cambodia field, I would also ask you to consider prayerfully sending some or all of that support directly the Cambodia mission field. Here is one pressing need that was directly impacted by our (and other) churches withdrawing from short-term commitments this summer.
Dear All
You are receiving this e-mail because you or your church have been involved in the English camp ministry at some time in the past. It is hard to believe that this year will be English camp 7, It seems like yesterday that we were hosting English camp 1( then just known as English camp) That first year we had 8 short termers and 25 students. Last year for English camp 6 we had 78 short termers and apprx 300 students. God is good.
It appears that English Camp 7 will not be quite as big. As of today we have 27 people registered for this summer.We are very thankful for these people who are coming and are trusting God for another great summer
As most of you will know, the 2 biggest disadvantages that come from lower number of Short termers is that we will not be able to invite as many students to study at the English camps as in years past, and a drop in income. For many students, English camp is the highlight of their year and so it will be with heavy hearts that we will be telling some that they will not be able to attend this year. Part of the money short termres pay to participate in English camp goes towards the budget of our dorm ministry. We currently house 15 university students in our dorm. They are provided with a place to stay as well as being trained and discipled to lead churches and small groups in the future. It costs approx $1000 per student to run the dorm. In years past we have been able to receive 50-75% of our budget from short term registrations. This year we will do well to receive 25%. In other words, we need to raise $10,000 by the end of the year.
So I send this to you to ask for your help, would you be interested in helping us meet our budget. Perhaps as an individual or a church, or hosting a fund raiser? If you attend an Alliance church in Canada or USA you can simply mark your cheque or envelope "University Ministry Cambodia" or you can send it directly to our National offices marked the same way.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance
Office of Donor Accounting
P.O. Box 35000
Colorado Springs, CO 80935-3500
(866) 443-8262
http://www.cmalliance.org/give/give.jsp
I will admit, sending this type of e-mail is not my favorite thing to do but my desire to see what God is doing here among University students continue outweighs and feelings of my own.We have a web site for the dorm ministry we are currently working on and hope to have that up in the next month. It will be a way to get to know the students and more information about the dorm ministry. Please pray that these needs will be met, for His glory
Thank you
Bill Lobbezoo
I'm excited to send the amount i had earmarked for my teammates to this ministry.
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