To be honest Alison and I aren't keen on talking about money publicly!! ( our British reserve and that fact that money is one of things people think the church only talks about!!)
However we must just fill you in on our finances. As you will know we came to Harold Hill with only a house. When we accepted the post there is no funding as this is how Urban expression work and we fully understood that and are supportive of the logic behind it.
Since June God has done something amazing, we now have three streams of income, people who are personally supporting us, I've got twelve hours a week youth work and we have a money support group to whom some churches have made gifts and last week we hard that the Baptist Union is going to support with a half stipend grant. All this means when added up that we are going to be getting around the normal baptist ministers income, which is amazing and we are thankful to those who have supported and prayed for us. A God for being so so faithful.
Please continue to pray for the teams money and for us the house is wonderful, but the bills aren't small!
About Me
- Richard S
- Richard is a often loud and speaks long before he thinks. He is a dad of three and struggles to remember he is an adult rather than a child. He is married to Alison and they are part time church leaders in place called Harold Hill. They feel passionately called to serve those on the margins of society. Richard is a Baptist minister, and with the other part of his working week he is a parenting coach. Sky Pilot is the cockney Rhyming slang for church minister...Rich is a baptist minister. These blogs only represent Richard's view at the time of writing.. in all likelihood he has changed them already!
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