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 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
 

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. 

Check out the services we offer:

• Pastoral Care
• Cultural Intelligence Training
• Walking the Walls
• Missional Trade
• Church Planting

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
 

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
 

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"