End-of-Year Generosity
STRONG START to the New Year
To all our readers, subscribers, and supporters,
We’re grateful to God for your support in helping us sustain Along The Way as a publication and service to you. We hope to continue creatively growing and developing the content to include more features and cover even broader topics for encouragement, insight, and support through daily life, as well as critical thinking, theological meditation, cross-cultural specifics, and modeling an active faith in today’s culture.
End-of-Year Generosity
As many of you know, our family is engaged in cross-cultural ministry in the United Kingdom. To hear more about our story, check out our Espinelis on Mission site. Today, we want to ask you to reflect on the generosity of the Lord this year. He has been so active and instrumental in our lives and in the lives of those who have taken part in this mission or have encountered the Lord through our ministry.
As this year closes and we consider the novelty of a new year, we want to invite you to pray and consider an end-of-year gift to our ministry. Your financial giving is co-participation in our efforts to impact Birmingham, England, and take the message of Jesus through barriers and across boundaries! We collectively want to see a city awakened to the transformative reality of Christ! Through your generosity, we can take the Gospel message to more in this unique country and meet the needs of our local community.
We are incredibly grateful for your partnership in this mission, as it is through you that lives are impacted, and we can continue being the hands and feet of Jesus across the pond. We invite you to join us in one last moment of giving before the year’s end as we move into a fresh new year with a fresh vision and enthusiasm to continue on in the Lord’s Great Commission.
If you would like to make an end-of-year gift or set up a recurring donation to our vision-driven mission, you can give here or click the button below:
New Year, NEW CHALLENGE!
Have you ever read the Bible cover-to-cover?
Have you read the entire New Testament?When someone asks you about Jesus or who Jesus is, what do you say?
How did you arrive at your answer?What is the Gospel in your own words?
What is your testimony (story of conversion)?Why Jesus and not other religions?
Did Jesus really claim to be God?
Whether you are a long-time follower of Christ or someone who has distanced themselves for rational, emotional, or volitional reasons—whether you are a reader or not, we want to invite you to give the Lord your first fruits.
Offering the Lord the first fruits of the harvest or the best of our resources of time, talent, and treasure is a hallmark of genuine worship and faith. It’s an emphatic statement with our actions that the Lord is worthy of our best and our first.
So, how do we do this?
Commit the year to read through the New Testament via the Bible App. If you’re not a reader, don’t be intimidated, there’s an option to listen to an audio version each day! As you read or listen on the app each morning of each day, focus on what you understand in the text. Every New Testament in a Year Reading Plan has a ‘Talk It Over’ section. Write out a couple of sentences for the sake of retention and in reflection about the sections you read. This could be an individual challenge or one you can invite others to via the Bible App. If you’re reading together in a group, the ‘Talk It Over’ section can quickly become a forum for interesting conversation!
If this is too daunting of a task, try this:Commit January, the first month of the year, to daily prayer and reading through the Gospel of John. Here’s a 25-day reading plan for the Gospel according to John (along with his letters 1, 2, and 3 John). From February to December, you can regularly revisit these Johannine works for further reflection or to dive deeper into personal study. This could also be an individual challenge or one you can invite others to via the Bible App.
*I tend to encourage people to read the whole Bible in 2 years (instead of 1) to ensure the pace is manageable and you’re able to reflect thoughtfully on what you read each day.
Thank you again for your continued interest in and support of our publication and our ministry. We wish you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!