TRB Sunday - So. Elm St BC, Greensboro, NC

About 21 months ago God lead me to quite my full time job as a banker and take a hugh step of faith by joining Allen in ministry. We both knew my heart was not in the corporate world and that my efforts would have an eternal effect if applied to the ministry God had called both of us too.

Being a banker I got my calculator out and tried to figure out how in the world we were going to make it based on past ministry income.  No matter how I fiddled with the figuars it just made no sense at all for me to make this change.  But God’s ways are not our ways and here we are 21 months later having had our best year in ministry.  We’ve been blessed to see many people saved, marriages strengthened and hurting lives encouraged by the power of God’s Word.

There is one thing I’ve learned since joining Allen full time, booking meetings, living on love offerings and running a full time ministry is no easy task, it’s a lot harder than my 9 to 5 job ever was, but much more rewarding!  There is no subsitute for being in the center of God’s will.

One of the hardest obstacles is budgeting to meet our obligations both personally & on the ministry level.  Up to this point we

TRB Retreat @ Unicoi Lodge, GA - Feb 2010

have been depending mostly on love offerings to meet our annual budget.   The varying size of the churches we minister to and their ability to give has played a large part in our abilities to meet budget & has dictated weather we can expand our ministry.  After much prayer and consulting others who run a full time ministry, we realize that to continue to reach those in need we will need to ask God to lead others to join us in prayer AND monetary support to insure we have a dependable foundation from which to run our ministry.

This foundational support will allow us to meet our obligation during the slow months of the year, which we have found to be June, July & December in addition to holiday weekends throughout the year.  These months are harder to book since most churches have yearly activities such as VBS, church wide activates & of course Christmas programs.  Our goal is to book at least 35-40 events per year, which would result in quite a vigorous schedule.  Last year we had 33 bookings, a hugh increase from prior years which means more lives were touched and souls reached for our Lord.

Allen leading EBAW Revival @ New Union BC

Despite having the best year yet in our ministry efforts we still fell short of reaching our budget needs or being able to accomplish all that the Lord had laid on our hearts to do.  We realize after much prayer & soul searching that we can not accomplish what God would have us do without Him bringing others along side us to help.  Are you one of those people?

Young Lady Prays To Receive Christ -Block Party @ FBC Apopka

Allen and I have such a desire to encourage the saved and reach the Lost with the power of God’s Word.  He has blessed our lives so richly and we know He wants to do the same for others, but we need foundational support to accomplish this.  During our “off” months we have a desire to go to places that couldn’t afford to host us otherwise.  To do this we need funds to meet our ministry budget.  Are you willing to help?

Sharing the Gospel - June 2010

This month Allen spent 10 days in Orlando, FL knocking on doors and sharing the gospel.  He personally lead 28 people to the LORD!  Next month we have plans to travel to California and hope be leading The Right Blend Sunday at two small “mission field” churches located in a sea of need.  Neither of these efforts are viable sources of income, but are something we both feel the Lord leading us to do, trusting Him to provide.    We want to be good stewards of our time and efforts.  There are so many more things God has placed on our hearts to do, but we need others to join us in prayer and support, are you one of those people?

If you have been blessed by our ministry and feel God leading you to help……simply click the DONATE button at the top left corner of this page or mail a check today to:  Finish Line Focused Ministries – 7008 Woodfield Way – Woodstock, GA 30188. We are a non-profit organization and all donations are tax deductable.

Please know that if you feel lead to give $10 or $1000 – a one time gift or monthly support, your willingness to join us in reaching the lost & encouraging the saved means so very much to both Allen and I.  We are thankful to those who already support our ministry & look forward in anticipation to see who God will lead to join us.

Lord, our bags are pack.....send us!

Allen & Sandi

Welborn

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Allen & Sandi Welborn

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