Run For Missions 2009: July Update

RUN FOR MISSIONS

Last year’s Run for Missions was a great success! Setting out to raise $10,000, we raised $12,997.65!

I am excited to announce the Second Annual Run for Missions that will be held October 26-27, 2009! This year our goal is to raise $25,000!

Since 2005, EFC-MAYM Mission Mobilizers have supervised a scholarship fund to grant limited scholarships to missions students. Their desire is to give affirmation and support to EFC-MAYM College and Graduate students responding to a “call” to missions, intending to serve on the Friends Mission Field.

The EFC-MAYM Mission Mobilizers' desire for this fund is that it grows substantially to become an endowment fund to relieve student loan debt for students headed to the Friends Missions field. Imagine a day when our church can take it to another level in supporting the work of missions, getting behind our missionaries in financial support, not just from the time they go to the field until they come home, but from the first day of their calling and throughout their schooling and education process! You can help make this a possibility.

In order to raise funds for this Scholarship, the EFC-MAYM Mission Mobilizers are sponsoring the second annual “Run For Missions”. Allen Smelser (Stanwood Friends) and Adam Monaghan will run 100 miles, from the Friends Ministry Center in Wichita to Barclay College in Haviland, KS, on October 26th! Our goal is to raise at least $25,000 this year to support this scholarship fund. We are seeking at least 125 supporters to give $100 dollars ($1 per mile) and we are praying that at least 10 generous supporters will give $1,000 by November 15, 2009.

Would you be willing to sponsor Allen and Adam at $1 per mile (or $10 per mile or more!) in a 100 mile run for Friends Mission Scholarships? Please contact Adam Monaghan at the Friends Ministry Center 316-267-0391 adam@efcmaym.org to make your pledge.

You can make your tax-deductible donation by writing a check to “EFC-MAYM”, memo: “Run for Missions”; send to 2018 Maple, Wichita, KS 67213 by November 16th.

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Run for Missions 2008 Report: http://run4missions.blogspot.com/2009/07/run-for-missions-2008-report.html
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