Our Bountiful Supply

We had a great board meeting last night. Many things were discussed and approved, including our budget for 2006/2007. Thanks to the diligence of my staff, the Mission was $50,000 under budget last year!

A memo to my staff this week:

In using an old agenda as a template for our upcoming board meeting this Thursday, I came across the following under the financial report:"Making ends meet."

What a blessed summer we have had and we have $75,000 in the bank!! It has been our goal to:

1) pay off our buildings and

2) have money set aside as you would in your personal finances, to operate the Mission for several months in a disaster, without incoming funds.

My staff reminded me that last summer, we were literally praying in our paychecks. What a relief to be able to continue to meet the needs of the poor without having to scale back programming, which can so often happen to missions in the summer months.

Thanks to the generosity of people like you, we have been able to maintain and grow our work and programs in Regina and surrounding areas.

One of the things we are excited about is not having missed one night of providing emergency shelter for those who were homeless this summer, even with the move!

Today is our Open House at our new Shelter 1836 Halifax Street. It's in combination with Soul's Harbour, since we are sharing a building! Come for lunch, speeches and a tour at 11:30 and see what the Lord has done!