Greetings friends, family,
and partners from the Northern part of Thailand.
What great joy it brings my
heart to get email from friends and loved ones. This week we received a special
email from some very dear friends that we have known for over 20 years. These
friends were active members of our church in Tuscaloosa (Emmanuel Baptist
Church) when Hope and I were in college at the University of Alabama. The
Donald Rush family and the Rick Rush family were very instrumental in our lives
as young college students, and Don played a very special role in my life as a
friend and mentor. It has been quite a long time since we have seen either of
their families, but what a joy it brought to my heart to receive an email from
Don this past week saying they have been thinking about us and praying for the
ministry here in Northern Thailand.
These two families recently felt challenged after
hearing a story about people raising and selling piglets to support missions in
Nepal. Don went on to say, “Rick and I do not have
any pigs but we have lots of art. We want to offer you up to $10,000 of art to
be used for your ministry.”
Many of you on this email
list know the Rush families but for those of you who do not, let me take a
moment to say a word about their business
Rick is an extremely gifted professional sports artist based in Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, and Don helps market his work as the president of Jireh Publishing
International.
Don has proposed a project
called “Art for Missions” to help support NTIM’s ministry:
“Your supporters or any interested party can go to our website www.RickRushArt.com and pick the art out and we will
ship it directly to them and 100% of the money will go directly to your
ministry. …. Rick’s large serigraphs sell for approximately $800 each so if you
had 12 people respond, you would be close to $10,000.”
As their website says,
“The essence of sports is a fleeting moment of intense exuberance--life at its
most exhilarating. At its best, sports art acknowledges yet counteracts life's
brevity by allowing the viewer to savor the intensity of a moment in motion.
Artist Rick Rush is a master of the Sports Art genre.” Art for Missions is a
great opportunity to accomplish two things: (1) receive some fabulous sports
paintings and (2) help up to $10,000 go directly to our
missions work through NTIM.
Please join me in praying
that God will use “Art for Missions” to help raise much-needed funds for NTIM’s
continuing outreach to this part of God’s needy world with the love and message
of Jesus. If you know someone who loves sports, please feel free to forward
this email to them. They may be interested in purchasing some of this great
artwork while at the same time supporting God’s work here in Northern Thailand.
Your Servants to the
Nations in and around Northern Thailand,
Michael for the team
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You can also send
donations to support God’s work to NTIM directly. All donations made are tax
deductible and can be made either online at www.gontim.org
or mailed to NTIM, P.O. Box 26115, Birmingham, AL 35260
Reaching, Teaching,
Discipling, Equipping, Training, and Serving People in God’s World through acts
of love and compassionate is what NTIM and our ministry team is all about.
