Ten Talents International Blog

Here we are- less than two weeks until the big banquet, and a little over a week into Mike working full time for Ten Talents International!

• The Banquet- we still have some tickets available for our banquet, happening September 9th. If you were thinking about coming & haven't RSVP'd yet, we'd really like to encourage you to contact us soon! This night is going to be wonderful. Beautiful setting, engaging speakers, fantastic live music (Shawn Lewis, of Hyper Static Union, will have a band there with him, as well as Tasha Lewis singing with him), not to mention all the amazing food! There will also be door prizes as well as the drawing for a free night at an Oregon Coast Shilo Inn. You will most definitely be blessed to come, and every penny of the money from your ticket goes to further the work being done by Ten Talents International. Thank you!

• Ten Talents Website- there are some exciting additions here also. In addition to being able to give on-line via Paypal, you can now also subscribe to become a monthly donor. This also is through Paypal, and you can sign up to support the Faith Home, the McColm Family, or the new Home of Innocence.

• What's that you say? What is the Home of Innocence? Mike is going to talk more about this at the banquet, but there is a special "sneak peek" available at our website! To get this "insider" info., you can visit our website http://www.tentalentsint.org/, click on the tab for "Ministry", then click on the highlighted phrase "children off the streets". God is placing new dreams in Michael's heart for new things in Rwanda. It will be a blessing!

Praise God for providing for us & guiding us. He is always faithful. We had the opportunity to visit Truth and Grace Foursquare church in University Place, Washington this last weekend & it was a blessing. They welcomed us & prayed over us & we look forward to working with them more in the future. Mike has meet with a few other pastors in the last week and continues to work on building connections so that we can share the opportunities for others to become involved in advancing the Kingdom of God around the world. Praise God that he delights in using ordinary people to do extra-ordinary things! He is so good!

Thank you for your continued prayers

*for this banquet- that it would be a success in every sense of the word

*for our family as God continues to watch over us & provide for us

*for the connections that Mike is making with other ministries to be fruitful

*and that God would continue to give us more opportunities to grow the ministry & that he would provide for the dreams we believe he has placed within us

We are so glad to have you along in this amazing journey of faith & thank you for supporting us & praying for us. We pray that God richly blesses you & that you walk in the path He has for you- for that is the best place to be!

In Him,

Lisa

*Just a little more than a month until the banquet, and we are beginning to get responses in. As a reminder, the first 100 people to purchase tickets will be entered into a drawing for a night at an Oregon coast Shilo Inn! Just a little motivation for those who might be drawn to procrastinate! :) You can make your donation on-line at http://www.tentalentsint.org/ or through the mail to Ten Talents International. Some of you may have gotten your invitations late, as there was a mix-up with the amount of postage required, but I think that's all taken care of now. Please keep this banquet in your prayers- that God would release people to come & for this to night to be used by God for his glory.

*We found out recently that a church is fully funding the Kanombe Children's Home through Africa New Life Ministries. That is wonderful to know, because funding that home was one of our goals for this year. Praise God the home is taken care of! (We still need to fully fund the Faith Home- please pray for that.)

*Mike is wrapping up his "final" days at his carpentry job, probably just one or two days left. I put "final" in quotes because he will go back occasionally, a day here or there, to do fixes and such. He is very ready to move on to working full time for Ten Talents International. This has been on his heart for a long time!

You are a blessing to us & we so appreciate you standing with us as we move forward in God's calling!

God Bless You,
Lisa