We hope this M3 update finds you well.
Several of you have asked for a report about the offerings received during the 16th International Marriage Conference toward the M3: Mission Marriage Multiplication campaign. Presently, between gifts received and that which has been pledged to be received by December 1, NAME has received just over $200,000 towards the goal of $819,000 due in December. Praise the Lord!
We still have a long, miraculous way to go and we believe God is moving. Several churches are receiving offerings toward NAME, even without any one from NAME being in those services. This is a sovereign move of God, for God to put it on pastors' hearts that way. This prompted us to send out a package to other pastors where we've conducted marriage events to humbly ask them whether they would consider doing so as well. (Call us if you want our office to send a package to your pastor, too. 602-404-2600.) We are likewise encouraged by some of the other efforts we are making in approaching major donors and in a broad-based appeal to our entire list. Still, it will take a miracle but NAME has not only believed in miracles but depended on them.
We want to thank you for your part and your sacrifice for the cause of marriage during the International Marriage Conference. We are also encouraged by the grassroots movement that has sprung up through some of you; some folks went back from the conference and approached businessmen and others they know to give toward this marriage ministry strengthening campaign. You can help us see the miracle come to pass by helping us make this appeal go viral: the website www.nameonline.net/m3 now has an updated video with the appeal and the description of the campaign. Please forward this web address to everyone you know, post it on your Facebook pages for people to examine, send it via twitter, put it in an e-mail blast and do whatever else you can to help connect people with the vision of moving this ministry forward in this time of need. Who knows? You could be the one that would somehow connect someone who could do something great at this time, or you just might inform your friends and contacts who may be considering year-end charitable contributions, and God could use you that way.![Gray]()
If we all do our best, God will do the rest.
Our time is VERY short, and as we are writing this to you we are launching out on an aggressive month of spreading the marriage message, and an intense travel schedule (over 30,000 miles and 23 speaking times in just over 3 weeks) that will limit our personal ability to fundraise. Someone suggested that we cancel our participation in the conferences in Canada, Uganda and Ecuador in the coming weeks but we feel God is more glorified if we keep our commitments and, after all, if we seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness then all these things shall be added. So please pray for effective ministry and pray likewise that this grassroots movement of meeting the need to somehow, some way rescue the NAME headquarters building would be so fruitful that everyone would know that God has indeed done a great work. Jesus said, "Let your light so shine before men that seeing your good works they may give glory to the Father in heaven."
Please prayerfully consider, as a couple, what God would have you to do in this regard; at the very least, somehow participate in making the M3 webpage go viral and asked God to show you who you might connect to this vision at this strategic time. In the letter we are sending out to our entire list, we said that we have learned that when we are down to nothing, God is up to something! Please be a part of what God is up to, it shall be a blessing to your marriage, to your generations, to other marriages and to the institution that God loves and calls his bride.
Once again, thank you so much and please e-mail info@namonline.net with your prayer requests, updates and testimonies of what God is doing in your marriage and your efforts for marriages.
WE BELIEVE NAME WILL RECEIVE A MIRACLE!
We love you, with our hands to the plough, not looking back,
Pastor Leo and Molly Godzich