A full October

This past month has been a full and wonderful month. This was my (Lisa's) last month of coaching volleyball at Westminster, we hosted a Ugandan evening at Westminster to share with the families there, met with many other families in our church (Faith Pres) and still made time to play in leaves and carve pumpkins and enjoy fall in Georgia. It has been a wonderful month and we feel so blessed to share this season with many dear friends.

We also received our monthly financial update from Global Outreach last week. We now have 40% of our one-time need in our account and 34% of our monthly need either pledged or already coming in. We are so thankful and feel very blessed by all of our support team! Please pray with us, specifically for the remaining 66% of our monthly need. If you know an individual, family or church who might be interested in joining our support team, please let us know. We enjoy sharing with others about the work God is calling us to do. You can also watch our video for an overview of our ministry.

2 minutes from the Warfield family

This brief video is from the Warfield family sharing about their need for teachers for their kids. This is one of the families whose children we will be teaching next school year.

Our updated video

Here is a new video about our plans to move to Uganda next summer. Special thanks to Harvey Kirkpatrick for putting this together! We are so blessed to have you as a brother, friend, and neighbor!

This Friday night

Some GSF kids during worship

For those of you in the Watkinsville/Athens area, we would like to invite you to Westminster Christian Academy on Friday, October 26 at 6:30pm. We will have food, information about our ministry and activities for kids. We will also have Ugandan jewelry and books for sale. We hope you can join us for a fun evening! For those of you who cannot join us, please pray for the evening. Thanks!

Newest baby at GSF

Here are some photos of Godfrey. He is about a week old and is the newest addition at Good Shepherd's Fold.

Wow!

We just received our end of the month statement from Global Outreach about our support, and we were SO ENCOURAGED! We are now at 28% of our one-time need! Monthly support is a tricky thing... We do not know which gifts are intended to be ongoing monthly, annual or one-time support unless we or Global Outreach receives a commitment card or monthly EFT form, or if you just tell us. So as far as we know, we are still around 23% of our monthly need. We are SO THANKFUL for all of the new support that we received this month! We are still looking for about 145 more families/individuals to join our monthly support team at $10, $25, $50, $75, $100, $150 or $200. Any amount of support will be greatly appreciated! And again, THANK YOU to all of you who have already joined our support team! To celebrate, here's a photo of some happy kids at GSF!

Video about Good Shepherd's Fold

This excellent 5 minute video was made by a family who adopted from Good Shepherds Fold a few years ago. A few details are out of date, but in general this video gives a great picture of the work there. The one comment I want to add, is that the missionaries at GSF are working to make the ministry more self-sustaining through the farm, but they are still currently dependent upon the support raised through the missionaries who serve there and the child-sponsorship program.