What do the Mariana Trench and Mount Everest have in common? The answer is, of course, that oxygen is in short supply at both the bottom of the earth and the top of it!
The month of December 2024 has taken us to both places! We are still struggling to refill our lungs after being humbled in the depths with an unusually challenging year of maintenance issues at our Foundation headquarters and more ministry requests than our resources would enable us to fulfill only to experience the heights of gratitude to God for the ability to help our project in Vermont and the ministries we pursued in the Budapest seminary and in Bibelseminar Bonn and arrive breathlessly at our present circumstances. In the month of December, Sandy Creek Foundation received the second largest gift in our history. That together with other gifts is bringing us close to providing 2 years of operating budget and enabling us again to make some significant investments in some of our most urgent ministry requests. Humbled to the depths by God’s mercy, lifted to incredible heights in gratitude to our Lord and quite a crew of donors, we are mailing 14 checks for current ministry needs and are praying that online and end-of-year giving will bring us across the finish line on others that are critical. We know from experience that securing funds for missions is slow, heart-wrenching work with a vision fueled by gargantuan faith in sacrificial giving from all of us. We have specific international requests from Cuba, Hungary, Germany, Brazil, and the Philippines, and we have blocked dates as requested. If God provides remaining funding, we are ready to go. We have also brought back our hope to underwrite several critical publication projects and our investment in theological programs for women that are being established in the US and overseas.
You can give to Sandy Creek Foundation even in 2024:
by mail, if postmarked by midnight tonight (12/31)
Our mailing address: Sandy Creek Foundation 5206 Edgewater Court Parker, TX 75094
by our secure online giving portal at the bottom of this website. We use Zeffy, a nonprofit payment platform that does not charge nonprofits credit card fees. Zeffy may ask for a tip—skip that by clicking the tip option and then selecting “other.” The tip total will become 0.
Until He comes,
Paige Patterson, President Sandy Creek Foundation