Bill Ellis - Guatemala City, Guatemala
Editor's Notes: This appeal is from an email sent out by Bill Ellis to subscribers to his monthly Central America Missions newsletter. Bill also writes a weekly blog called Guatemala Notebook. You can read a previous story on Central America Missions from Bill by clicking Here.
Hi friends and family…
The motive of this email is to ask for your help. I am an American missionary sent out from the church in Orlando, Florida in September of 1994. I am now approaching twelve years on the mission field and am coming to my friends, my family and members of our congregations to ask for help.
As many of you know our congregations across the globe have gone through some substantial changes over the past few years. One of the areas that was most impacted was support for foreign missions. Due to lost confidence in the yearly "Special Missions Contribution," many of our mission societies were forced to close; others reorganized and called their missionaries home.
There are still a few of us Americans abroad, mostly working with HOPE worldwide projects. Still believing in the mission and the positive impact that we can cause, we decided to stay in Guatemala after being laid-off by the Central and South America mission society. We Invested our capital in a small Christian book distributor which was destroyed on Dec 31st, 2005 when our home was flooded by raw sewage.
In the hope of continuing our mission work in Central America, I am asking you to make a donation. After cutting back our living expenses and receiving a monthly contribution of $100, our present monthly need is $900 and we are still paying off $5000 on a credit card that we used to clean our house when it was flooded.
If you are interested in helping us or know of someone who would be, you can donate through www.paypal.com using the email williamrobertellis@centralamerica4him.org. You can also deposit directly into my Bank of America account #205844824, or you can send a check to me care of Iglesia de Cristo Internacional to my P.O. Box in Miami: P.O. Box USA:ELLIS, WILLIAM ROBERT/B5452110914 N.W. 33rd Street Suite 115Miami, Fl. 3317
If you send a check in care of the church in Guatemala we will send you a reciept that together with your canceled check can be used for a tax write off.
Please help us get the word out. If you know of others who would like to recieve my monthly update, please forward the link to them and ask them to sign up.
Thanks in advance for your prayers for the church in Guatemala and our family in this time of transition. Your family in Christ,Bill, Wendy, Steven, Mathew and Angelina
Editor's Note: You can read more about Bill Ellis by clicking Here.
- Posting from Pui
1 comment:
Thanks for posting this. I was surprised to see the letter, I saw it here before seeing the article on disciples today. Roger Lamb is signed up for my newsletter so I guess he put it on disciples today.
Pui you might be right about the nickname, it might of been Angelo when I was leading the teens or Bart Moyers. I really didn't get to spend much time in the Campus ministry (Just one semester). I spent a year and a half with the teen and six months with the singles. In the three years that I was in Orlando I lived in six apartments (three with Dave Poole), and had 11 disciplers (P.I.G.'s, D.P., ect...) of whom Pui was the longest and most appreciated relationship (5 months at the beginning - they really helped).
We are grateful for any help. Thanks... Bill
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