I'm not really sure where that line is.

In the past week I have had several considerable contributions toward God's ministry in Vienna. I am now very happy to say I have half of my monthly support raised. On Wednesday I went to a service in Indianapolis with my former pastor. It was great getting to see them and getting to see the little church they're building. It's little now because they have a congregation of 50 but they have already put a plan in place to put a larger building on the land and have the current building that is going up be a working building for another ministry.
I also had some friends who wanted to sow into missions and I was the lucky recipient.
And the final straw over the 50% mark came from a last minute service I booked for a church that is functioning without a pastor right now. They have a ministry that is working with them sending in preachers and they went ahead and brought me in. For a little flock they have big hearts and gave more than I really imagined possible for a congregation of 13. I wanted to hug every one of them and thank them profusely and then lead them in a little 50% celebration dance. I'm fairly sure at some point in there the line of professionalism would have been crossed. I wish they had taught us these things at my prefield orientation way back in June.

On Wednesday I also had three more services scheduled for the upcoming two months. It makes my schedule a little hectic but I'm really thrilled with it.

So close!

Only to 50% of the monthlies but still, a big milestone. I went to a small country church today (it's ok for me to say that, that's what they called it) and for the size of the congregation they gave huge! They also support a large number of missionaries with really substantial amounts for the size of the church. It was a blessing to see what they are giving to the kingdom all over the world.

I also had two surprise pledges on my monthly statement from World Missions. I feel kind of silly because I called one of the churches Friday before my statement came and left a message asking them for support again. I have to call tomorrow and say, oops; but they never told me! SO, I have 972.90 of the $2,077 raised. That's 46.8% which is getting very close to half way!!!