Welcome to our November 2020 Monthly Update! We truly appreciate you taking the time to read our update as well as praying for the requests we share.

Seems like November snuck up on us! Just rolled the wall calendar we have over to October and then all of a sudden November was here! Maybe you had the same experience. We are thankful for this month as Shawn and I celebrate our 28th anniversary on November 28th! We thank God for the grace He gives, that is so very needed in every marriage!

As the body of Christ endures our current moment of trouble, it seems an appropriate time to remember that “man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Deuteronomy 8:3). The Israelites spent 40 hard years in the wilderness depending on God for all the necessities of life to learn that walking in obedience with God matters. It is not that food, shelter, clothing, or health are trivial matters. They aren’t. God does not teach Israel to detach from the physical world or to view the creation He has made as evil. Rather, God reminds Israel that trusting in His wisdom is the means by which those who walk with God navigate the challenges of the physical world.

Even after the forty years in the wilderness, God recognizes the human tendency to focus on the gift and to forget the Giver (Deut 8:11-20). Several years ago, I wrote the following prayer to help remind me that, as D.L. Moody said, “I am so thankful that I have a joy that the world can not rob me of…a treasure that the world cannot take from me…” No matter what we face, we have God with us. Unlike those around us, we have His peace, which is beyond our understanding; His hope, which is not grounded in health or prosperity; and His joy, which is not fleeting but endures as we come to know God more deeply. Let’s pray that even in the midst of the challenging times in which we find ourselves that we will find it in ourselves to have hearts of gratitude.

Online Post from April 2020: https://moodycenter.org/articles/a-prayer-of-thanksgiving-grateful-for-the-giver/

Our mission at Marriage Revolution has been and always will be to never let money stand in the way of a couple getting the help they need. We are ONLY able to do that because of the financial gifts of our Ministry Partner Team!

One of the realities of raising support is that folks come on and go off our Ministry Partner Team. It has been this way for the 18+ years we have been support-raising. So we are always looking to discover new partners the Lord has for us. We look to close out 2020 still needing to grow our total monthly support. So we are asking for two possible ways you can help us:

1) WILL YOU JOIN OUR TEAM: You may have given to help us in the past, or you may have never previously given us a financial gift. Either way, we would like to challenge you to ask God if He would have you join our team now, so that your donations will allow us to continue fulfilling our call to bring God's help and hope to couples in Central Arkansas. Please feel no pressure to give, just respond as God directs you!

2) TELL A FRIEND: A second way you can help is by sharing our Ministry with a close friend of yours. You can share something like, "We have a couple we know that serves with Marriage Revolution in Arkansas. We believe helping others have a Christ-centered marriage is critically important. I would like to ask you to consider contacting them and also consider being a part of their Ministry Partner Team." After sharing this, you can either print and hand them the summary sheet linked below, or just share the link with them. Please don't "say No for them" before you ask. Just share this opportunity with 2-3 folks you know, and leave the results to God. We believe God will use you "telling a friend or two" to help us grow our Ministry Partner Team!!

If you have questions on any of this, please contact us using our contact info at the bottom of this page