The full text of Valentine’s letter:

Because we can accomplish more together than we can individually, I am inviting you to rise with me to a new challenge.

When the Steering Committee of Joining Hearts & Hands met on Nov. 28  via conference call, we learned that $212,000 stands between us and the deployment of gifted mission candidates to serve where Christ has called them:   

• Denise England – called to Egypt;
• Carol Dolezal-Ng – called to Lebanon;
• Kathy Reeves – called to Switzerland; and
• other qualified candidates who are ready and waiting need your financial assistance now. 

If we do not raise the needed funds by December 15, at least three of these candidates will be unable to fulfill the mission that Christ has laid upon their hearts, as their window of opportunity will have passed.

You can make a difference in so many lives by making a gift now. You can also learn more about Carol and Kathy by reading these past news stories.  

The First Presbyterian Church of East Brady, PA, voted last week to pledge $10,000 to Kathy Reeves’ position in Geneva.  “We were called by the need,” said Debbie McCanna, clerk of session, “an established mission project that had proven its worth and needed funding.”

I give thanks to God for that congregation’s generosity, and pray that you, too, will be called by the need.