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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou

March 2023

3/22/2023

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A glance at our impact over the last month
A Month of Fundraisers!
Bloom International had its Gala earlier this month. They serve women & children across Asia to provide for their needs and to bring them out of poverty. Learn more at https://www.bloomintl.org
Heart N Hand has its Gala this Saturday, March 25th. They serve the homeless and those in need in southeast Kansas City. Jonathan Klee has been on the HnH Board of Directors for more than 5 years. Learn more and even get tickets at https://www.heartnhand.org 
giveDIGNITY was Perception Funding's first Ministry Partner back in 2008. We love the work that they continue to do restoring and giving dignity to those living in a large slum in Costa Rica. Their banquet is coming up on Friday, March 31st and Jonathan Klee will be emceeing the event. Also, this summer Jonathan will lead a team to Costa Rica to serve alongside giveDIGNITY. Learn more and rsvp at https://www.give-dignity.org
Pray for Our Ministry Partner
Please pray for Scott and Isabel who are Perception Missionaries in Mexico. They have been planting a church, running a youth archery program, and teaching adults job skills all while drug cartels continue to run their city killing people in the streets with gunfire on a daily basis. Right now pray for them as Isabel is days away from having a baby! They've traveled to a safer part of Mexico where Isabel's parents live. 
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Ministry Partner Spotlight



Say hello to one of our new ministry partners, Rended Heart!

Rended Heart seeks to provide immediate short-term accommodations, resources, and services, for the purpose of preparing the sexually exploited individual for entry into a long-term restoration or reintegration program.

Learn more at https://rendedheart.org 
Thank you for making a difference for ministries!
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February 2023

2/13/2023

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Pray for Our Ministry Partner
Pray for our pastor located in an Asian country who is serving a sentence in a government work camp for sharing the gospel. We've been able to continue to send him funds the past few months up until this week. Now we're praying and searching for a new solution as his accounts have been closed. Also, the government only closed 1 of the 20 plus Churches he planted so pray for the Churches that are still open. 
Our YouTube Channel
We're working to have a larger YouTube presence in 2023 in order to tell stories of the work we're doing and to train those in ministry around the world. So far this year we've recorded five videos on Cultural Intelligence and have two more to make to complete the series. This is a really important topic for those working with foreign cultures. You can check out the videos on our channel. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel to help us grow our following and to get notified of future videos.
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January 2023

1/1/2023

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Thank you for your support!
As the 2022 year has come to a close, we are excited for what God is going to do in 2023! God is always so good and we are thankful for the work he is doing here at Perception Funding. One thing that we know is that we couldn't have done ministry this past year without your support. Every donation, prayer and overall support made a huge difference. Please take a moment to watch the videos below from Jonathan. Thank you for helping us make that difference for ministries all across the globe!
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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December 2022

12/1/2022

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A Journey through 2022
It’s been a journey through 2022 for ministry at Perception Funding. As always we have so much to be grateful for as the Lord continues to bless the work we’re doing. This year we’ve reached a new milestone of having twelve employees who work to serve our ministry partners to help them shape their ministries by directly helping them develop the programs and outreaches they’re providing to those they serve. As well as helping them raise the funds needed to impact peoples lives for many years to come. 

Six of our team members make up our operations team. This team works tirelessly implementing fundraising plans, designing communication materials from thank you cards to social media posts, handling financials and continuing to improve our online giving platform.

Our other six team members make up our Partner Care Team, this team pastors our ministry partners and leads them in the ongoing development of their ministries. This happens through team building courses, accountability, church planting guidance, cultural intelligence education and business sustainability courses. For over fourteen years we’ve been able to help our ministry partners grow through our fundraising training and ongoing mentorship because of the work of our operations team, simply just being in their corner and always being available for their needs. In the last four years as we’ve built and expanded the Partner Care Team, we’ve been able to see our ministry partners have continual sustainable growth. This is because we’re not just helping them with fundraising but we’re also helping them develop and expand the actual ministries.
As the Founder of Perception Funding, I could not imagine a better team of employees. Additionally, we love the work our ministry partners are doing, which makes serving them easy for our team as we know lives are being changed as they learn and grow in their personal journey with God. 

We have a lot of work and growth ahead. This year particularly we’ve seen a large decrease in one-time gifts that fund the work of our twelve team members. We are beyond grateful for our regular monthly givers but this year has shown us how dependent we are on the occasional one-time larger gifts. Because of our amazing team and ministry partners, there was about six months this year that felt like we were fighting more than ever to continue to exist.

I’ve been reminded this year that no matter how we feel or what needs healed, God is always enough! I think we often forget about how present God is in our lives. It’s like oxygen we breath and when you don’t have to think about it or you don’t struggle with it, you take it for granted. God is always present like oxygen, he always loves you and he’s always rooting for you. Life can be hard at times but remembering that with God, you are not alone and you will get through it. You and all of our supporters help me to remember and see this as we press on in this journey.  
Your support is funding the work of God, impacting lives and transforming the way ministries operate. We couldn’t be more grateful for you as we enter the Christmas season. If you are able, please consider giving a year-end gift to help us continue on this mission. 

Thank you for making a difference!

Peace to you!

Jonathan Klee

Founder & Operations Director

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November 2022

11/4/2022

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A glance at our impact over the last month
Our Year-End Recap
A Thank You from our Founder & Team
 
Supporters and ministry partners - 

We are beyond thankful for each and every one of you. Your impact has truly made a difference over this past year. We could have not done ministry without you! We've included a recap of stats below to show you how much your support has made an impact for 96 ministries across the globe.

Thank you for being a light to help share Jesus with others all over the world!

Much appreciation,

Jonathan Klee & Team
Coming Together to Help Those in Need

As we look back on the year, one of the most impactful stories that happened was how churches and individuals stepped up to support families in Ukraine. In March we set a goal to raise $30,000 in 30 days and we exceeded our goal in 6 days! Through October we've now sent $74,770 to our church partners in neighboring countries of Ukraine who are providing clothes, food and other essentials for the Ukraine refugees to be cared for and loved as our God loves each one of us.   
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Find Rest this Holiday Season

As we approach the holiday season, we want to encourage you to take time to slow down this season. We know things can get busy and overwhelming as we approach Thanksgiving and Christmas. Remember to enjoy time with your family and most importantly spend quiet time with Jesus.

Quote from The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer:
"Jesus's invitation is to take up his yoke - to travel through life at his side, learning from him how to shoulder the weight of life with ease. To step out of the burnout society to a life of soul rest."
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October 2022

10/10/2022

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Impactful Stories
With Perception Funding being a unique organization, we understand that it can be hard to imagine what the day-to-day looks like for our team and the ministries we serve, so here are a few things that happened in just one week of September. 

Our ministry in Uganda has a large Christian school and because of Covid and their poor economy, families haven’t been able to pay for their kids to go to school which in return means the school can’t pay their teachers. In September we covered the cost of the teachers' pay. This will not only keep the teachers working but provides for their families as well!

Our ministry in Zimbabwe has had a sewing program for a long time and it has been successful in teaching people skills that they needed to get a job and even start a small business in order to support the needs of the families. But the sewing machines that we have in Zimbabwe are manually powered and it's incredibly hard to sew and make a living when you have to power the machine yourself. Our ministry raised the funds they needed locally in Zimbabwe to purchase all the electric sewing machines. However, they still didn’t have a way to power them, so we raised the funds they needed to purchase a solar set up to power the whole ministry in the solar operation and we got this funded in September.
Our Church Planting missionaries in Eastern Europe have grown really close to a family who has a 15-year-old boy. Recently the boy started to lose function and control over the whole left side of his body and in the remote mountain village the state hospitals didn’t know what to do so they kept delaying it. In September, our missionaries got him to a private hospital in the capital and found that he has a brain tumor and if surgery was possible it would cost approximately $4000 to remove it. The family didn’t have the money and would never be able to come up with it, so we wired the funds to our ministry partner to cover the surgery cost. Please pray for this boy and his family as the surgery hasn't happened yet, as the doctors are trying to decide if and how they can save him. Also, people in the mountain village think that he's sick because his family is friends with Christians.
So, please pray for God's love and truth to be known to this family and community. 
Because of YOU, we were able to meet the needs that you heard in these stories. Thank you for your generosity!
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September 2022

9/8/2022

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Our Partner Care Team - Hear the Impact



We want to share with you another impactful story from our Partner Care Team. These stories are just too good not to share!

She no longer feels like she has to do this alone.

I have been coming alongside one of our ministry partners in Guatemala. When I first met with her in 2021, she had only recently joined Perception Funding and was tired and discouraged from a long season of isolation and funding challenges as a result of the pandemic. She had lost an enormous amount of revenue she depended on from U.S. sales events where she marketed handicrafts fashioned by Guatemalan artists she disciples.

Our first few conversations I just spent listening, praying, and offering a few ideas for product diversification and sales avenues. Later we worked on marketing techniques and video promotions. She also met with other members of the Partner Care team to receive prayer and assistance in building a stronger ministry team around herself. The most recent communication with her was incredibly encouraging. She stayed the course and the Lord provided for her in her season of lack. She was able to have an enormously successful market season in the U.S., has recently tripled the number of women she employs, and is hiring an intern to assist with the organization’s growth.

She no longer feels like she has to do this alone, saying: “I so appreciate you! You are a great encourager and cheerleader, but so much more. Bringing me (and I hope others allow this from you as well) back to the Lord, to see His hand in what is happening. And you offer specific ideas, whether new ones or expanding on things I might have in my mind. I pray that others who will come under your coaching will also receive these good gifts through you!”

She now knows she has the support of a team that cares about the calling of God on her life to minister the Gospel to the people of Guatemala. 

- Sarah Ray, Economic Development Specialist
 

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August 2022

8/1/2022

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Our Partner Care Team - Hear the Impact



We want to share with you another impactful story from our Partner Care Team! We are so thankful for our Partner Care Team and everything they do for our ministry partners. 

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Read the story below!

To truly hear and love those in the midst of these struggles.

Having spent many years serving in a difficult corner of the world I usually felt alone, that everything was completely resting on my own shoulders…raising and maintaining support, learning a new language, the pressure of needing to take any opening to develop a possible relationship, starting up a business to maintain visas and just a dash of culture shock and fatigue mixed in! When we came back to the States I wrestled with what was the purpose of all the struggle, all the “right” theological answers only sank so far down into my heart. That was until I had a call with someone still on the mission field with Perception Funding, and I was able to hear their struggles and relate to them…and even laugh together about things you’d only really understand having gone through it yourself! It has been an honor to be part of the Perception Funding Partner Care team, it has given me a platform to use my experiences (good AND bad!) to truly hear and love those in the midst of these struggles as they share the love of Jesus.  
 

I have spent the last 9 months working with a missionary in an extremely violent part of the world. When he talks of deaths in the street, I don’t give a pat Bible explanation, but having experienced that myself, I’ve been able to sit there and cry with him and extend Christ’s compassion in that situation. He has tried to sign up for a Christian counseling service and was put on a four month wait list, and then told each session would cost more than his monthly grocery budget. But being a partner with Perception Funding has allowed him the ability to talk through these things with me and others on my team, and though we are NOT counselors, the act of being able to talk through the struggles of his life and ministry has allowed him to acknowledge them as real, and naming the problems has given space for the Holy Spirit to work. 

- Jeremiah, Cultural Intelligence Specialist
 

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July 2022

7/7/2022

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Our Partner Care Team - Hear the Impact



Have you met our Partner Care Team? They are incredible! This team allows us to care for our ministry partners on a whole new level. We want to not only keep ministry partners actively working in their ministry, but also to help them to be spiritually and emotionally healthy so they can care for themselves, their families, and their ministries. Check out this impactful story below from one of our partner care team members!

Pastoral care is just as essential for shepherds as it is the flock.

Oftentimes members in the church wrongly assume that the ministry leaders 'have it all together' and thus do not need regular pastoral care themselves. This could not be further from the truth. In my own ministry, I have learned time and time again the importance of intentional investment in my own soul by other pastors and leaders. 

Over the last year I've been able to build a great relationship with and provide pastoral care to a ministry partner in the St. Louis area. When he joined Perception Funding, his family was preparing to leave their home in southeast Missouri to answer God's call and move to the big city to start a network of disciple-making communities. Once we connected, I was able to join him in regular prayer for his family and ministry, encourage him as he pursued his vision, help him craft a plan for "first steps" when on the ground in St. Louis, and be a brother/mentor to him every step of the way.

As a result, on more than one occasion, he has commented how valuable the Partner Care Team has been to him and how much he appreciates the community he has with us. In a pursuit that is often described as a lonely, uphill battle, He loves knowing that he's not alone and that he has a team that will answer the phone at any time when he needs a pastor to care for, listen to, and serve him.

- Parker Dane, Church Planting Specialist

 

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June 2022

6/8/2022

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Join us in wishing our dear friend and Communication Coordinator-extraordinaire, Shilo, a warm goodbye! After 7.5 years of serving our ministry partners and donors.
We are sad to see her go, but excited for her new journey - she has started a flower farm here in the south KC area, what fun!

Check her out on instagram at slow_grown_acres


As a parting gift to Jonathan and Perception Funding, she has started a fundraiser for Perception Funding. Here are her words:

"Finally, as a parting gift to Jonathan Klee and Perception Funding, I would so appreciate if you would consider making a one time donation to their work. Perception Funding provides SO many free services to their ministry partners, and raises all of their own support. As Perception Funding grows, so do their expenses. My workload will be divided amongst the staff until they hire a replacement for my position, and I would love to aid a bit in their burden of fundraising this summer. I would be delighted if I could leave them with a small uptick in donations - as a way of thanking them for their kindness to me and my family over the last 7 years, and their goodness to the world."

If you'd like to join this fundraiser, simply click below and select "Shilo's Friends"

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