Joshua One Ministries

Dear Christian friends… friends of Rodrigo Rojas and our many brothers and sisters in Costa Rica … fellow laborers in the work of the Great Commission … relatives … casual acquaintances … total strangers …

During the holidays, I saw lots of offers for Buy Now Pay Later and Buy One Get One Free. Have you ever received such an offer from a Missions Organization? That’s exactly what I want to propose to you in this letter.

The Lord willing, Norma and I and 29 other team members leave for San José, Costa Rica, IN FOUR MORE DAYS. All the details are coming together beautifully. All indications are that we are going to have an outstanding week. A week of very hard work, a week of genuine evangelism, a week of great worship and sweet fellowship.

However, with just four days left before we go, we still need some financial help. Back in December I sent out an email and posted a message on this website titled:
I NEED TO RAISE $10,000 IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS!
Today, we still need to raise:
FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE NEXT FOUR DAYS!

August 2009: Rodrigo Rojas with some of the younger members of a church in the Guancaste province in far north Costa Rica, near Nicaragua.

The good news: We have received so many generous gifts in the last three weeks! Praise the Lord … and thank you so much to each one of you who sent a gift. Norma and I will send you a full report, complete with photos, when we get back from Costa Rica. I promise that your donation will be used for the Great Commission – saving souls, starting and equipping churches, training and equipping pastors.

If you have not been able to send a gift, I understand entirely. These are not the best economic times. The holidays are always a tight squeeze. You can only do what you can do. I sure get that. Nevertheless, I still need to come up with four thousand more dollars in the next four days.

So how about this. Would you be willing to pledge now and give later? Plus, every dollar you pledge now will immediately be doubled by a matching gift from a local church. That’s “buy one get one free,” right?

Actually, thanks to God’s faithfulness and your great generosity, along with several hours of nail-biting midnight-oil budget crunching, we pretty much have all the funds we need for next week’s trip. (Norma suggested we could save some money if I would just skip black beans and rice, fried plantains and Costa Rican coffee for the entire week. Sorry, Norma, I don’t think so).

With the trip taken care of, the one final item we are raising funds for is a car for Rodrigo Rojas, our senior evangelist in Costa Rica. For two years now, Rodrigo has been relying on borrowed cars and public transportation to carry out his ministry!! Is that any way to get the Lord’s work done??

When we are with Rodrigo next week, we want to present him with $10,000 to buy a reliable used car. We already have $2,500 designated for that purpose. Plus, Edmond (Okla.) Christian Church has offered a matching gift to raise the rest. They told me: If I can raise $4,000 before we leave for Costa Rica, they will match it, dollar for dollar, with another $4,000. Raise One Get One. That will give us more than enough to put Rodrigo behind a smooth set of wheels.

May 2009: Rodrigo Rojas with some new converts in Limón province in south Costa Rica.

Do you want to help? Would it be more convenient for you to do so at the end of the month or the middle of next month? If so, would you send an email NOW, pledging a gift sometime during the next 30 days? I have talked to Steve Logan who heads up ECC’s missions committee. He has agreed that they will acknowledge such pledges and match them immediately dollar for dollar – even before we actually receive your gift! All we need is your email to activiate the matching gift!

To those of you who already sent a gift, I want to say again: THANK YOU! You dear relatives, friends, acquaintances and strangers have been very generous! During the past three weeks we have received about $4,500 in donations. Thank you!!

Plus, I have gone through our budget like a kid scrounging around in the sofa for lost change. I have identified $1,500 of our expenses that can be paid after we get back … which closes the rest of the gap on the $6,000 we needed to make this trip work out.

Yeah, that’s right –- I’m going to have to send out another fund-raiser in early February to raise the funds for our remaining costs. Mainly, I will just send you photos from our trip:

• Photos of moms and their kids being treated at the health clinics by our team of six nurses.
• Photos of the new classroom building our team is erecting in San José for our Bible Institute.
• Photos of Christians from several Costa Rican churches praising and worshiping at our convention – something they look forward to all year long.
• Photos of dozens of young pastors and their wives being trained in our Leaders Seminar.
• Photos of people accepting the Lord and being baptized into Him.

I am trusting that when I send out those photos, raising the additional funds will not be a problem.

So, during these last four days we are focusing on raising the $4,000 for Rodrigo’s car. Rodrigo has no idea that we are planning to give him a car next week. He is a strong man, but I won’t be surprised if we see some tears of joy when we surprise Rodrigo with this gift. Not just because he needs a car, but because it means he will be able to travel to more villages, share the gospel with more people, encourage more young pastors, and accomplish so much more for the work of the Kingdom.

Can you help? Will you help? All I need is an email from you, pledging to send a gift on or before February 15, the Lord willing. I will show your email to Steve at Edmond Christian Church, and they will match it with a gift of an equal amount. Are you in? Will you please let us hear from you?

Thank you! God bless! Keep us in your prayers! Let us hear from you!

What a mighty God we serve!!

Love … Terry & Norma Hull

Whenever you are ready to send your gift, send it to Joshua One Ministries, P.O.Box 8464, Edmond, OK 73083. All gifts are tax deductible. Thank you!

During the next 30 days, I need to raise $10,000. Is it possible? Will it take a miracle? Will you help?

Christmas is one week away. Like you, Norma and I are busy getting ready for the big holiday. We will be going out this weekend to do some last-minute shopping. We expect a full house of kids and grandkids on Christmas Day.

But another BIG DAY is also on our minds. Exactly one month from tomorrow, on January 18, we leave for San José, Costa Rica. Norma and I are leading 32 people on an eight-day evangelism adventure in Central America.

Young preachers at our January 2008 Costa Rica evangelism trip. Rodrigo Rojas is standing in the back row, far left.

Some members of our team will be building a classroom building in San Miguel, a southern barrio of San José. The classrooms will be used by the new Bible Institute Rodrigo Rojas has been leading this year. Rodrigo is the senior evangelist of Costa Rica For Christ, one of the ministries of Joshua One Ministries. Two years ago Rodrigo told me of his vision to start a Bible Institute. So, last year, we built the first classroom. All this year, Rodrigo has been teaching about 20 young pastors and church leaders in weekday classes in that classroom.

This year, we are going to build the ground floor of a two-story building which will have six classrooms when it is finished. More classrooms will make possible more teaching and training for more pastors, who in turn will reach more people for Christ and make more disciples.

Meanwhile, other members of our team will be offering free health clinics in villages near San José. We have six registered nurses on our team this year! On Tuesday we will go to Santa Elena, where Rodrigo has been working to build up a small church there. On Wednesday we will go to Rosario, where Rodrigo has been leading a Bible study. On Thursday we will go to Itaipu, where Rodrigo has been working to gain a foothold for the gospel.

Our health clinics in these villages will meet people’s physical needs, while communicating the love of Christ and giving a big boost to Rodrigo’s evangelistic outreach there.

Of course, all of these projects are expensive. The estimated cost of the classroom building project is $12,000. The cost of the medical supplies for our health clinics will be $1,500 or more. In this short note, I haven’t even begun to describe everything we will be doing during our week in Costa Rica, and all of the expenses we will have. I won’t even try to mention the car we plan to purchase for Rodrigo on the first day we arrive in Costa Rica. Believe me, that’s going to blow Rodrigo’s mind. I will tell you much more about everything we have planned in future notes during the next 30 days.

But the bottom line for right now is this: I have to raise $10,000 during the next 30 days.

Our team members are donating or raising $1,650 each to participate in this adventure. That money covers their personal expenses — transportation, lodging, food — plus, it includes about $400 above and beyond, to apply to our project costs. Without their enthusiastic involvement, it would be impossible for us to do everything we are doing.

But the money they are giving is not enough by a long shot to cover the entire need. We need some additional help to make this work. Lots of it. We need your help.

Would you please send a gift? Somebody reading this letter could send $1,000. That would close 10% of the gap for us. A couple of people reading this letter could send $500. That would be such a huge help! Several of you could write a check for $100 or $200 or $250. And if lots of people sent checks for $20 or $25 or $50, our need would be met. Please send what you can.

Norma and I have been leading evangelism adventures like this for many years. Every time we begin such an adventure, we have no idea exactly how it is all going to work out. Today, just 30 days from our departure, I do not know exactly how it is all going to work out.

But I have a pretty good idea. Like all of the times before, the Lord is going to meet our needs to do what He has called us to do. And I imagine He will do it the way He almost always does it.

Through you.

Please make your check to Joshua One Ministries. Write “Costa Rica For Christ” (or just “CR4C”) in the memo field. Send your check to Joshua One Ministries, P.O. Box 8464, Edmond, OK 73083. Joshua One Ministries is a non-profit Christian ministry, and your gifts are tax deductible. Thank you very much for your support.

A Facebook poll asks if you prefer “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays.” I’m guessing “Merry Christmas” is perceived by some as more “spiritual” than “Happy Holidays.” Hmmm. Let’s see.

A “Mass” is a liturgical service of the Eucharist, presumably at a Catholic church, and a “Christ mass” is such a service held at midnight on the eve of Dec. 25, traditionally the birthday of Jesus (although there is no historical basis for Dec. 25).

A “Holiday” is a “Holy Day,” a day to cease from work and worship God.

So, if you’re headed to St. Greg’s for midnight mass, “Merry Christmas.” If you’re spending the day worshiping God, “Happy Holiday.” And if you’re spending the day doing nothing more than exchanging gifts and eating food, “Happy Festivus.”

With exactly two months remaining until our Jan. 18, 2010, departure to San José, Costa Rica, we have 31 team members signed up to go.

For more info about our Jan. 18-25, 2010, Costa Rica evangelism trip, read our: CR Trip Prospectus.

The Lord is putting together a remarkable team for us:

* We have 22 females and 9 males. We run the gamut of ages, from two teenagers to two in their 60s, and members of every decade in between.

* We have 6 nurses, who will be invaluable during the four days of free health clinics we offer to low-income Costa Rican villagers.

* We have several highly skilled, able-bodied amateur builders, who will show their stuff as we build a classroom building at Iglesia del Evangelio de Jesucristo (Church of the Gospel of J.C.) in San Miguel.

* We have 4 preachers. We will take turns preaching and teaching during a three-day regional convention of Costa Rican churches.

* We come from 10 different churches.

Here are two statistics I am expecially proud of:

* Out of the 13 people who made our first evangelism trip to Costa Rica in 2008, 7 are returning for their third straight CR adventure.

* Out of the 29 people we took in our 2009 trip, 20 are returning for their second straight trip.

That gives you a pretty good idea what kind of experience previous participants have had.

If you are interested in joining us, it is not too late to sign up. As a matter of fact, we made group reservations with American Airlines, and after a couple of drop-outs, we now have three slots to fill in our original group rez. That means you can still come for the original price. But pretty soon I will have to turn in our team roster to attach names to tickets, and release any plane seats we aren’t using. So if you are interested, now is the time.

Please read our Trip Prospectus, which will answer 98.8% of your questions. Then shoot me an email — joshuaoneministries at gmaildotcom.

We are accepting applications NOW from those who want to join us on our January 2010 evangelism trip to San José, Costa Rica.  

Terry and Norma Hull led 13 people on a week-long adventure to Costa Rica in January 2008, and 29 people in January 2009.  We are now putting together our 2010 team, and the time to sign up is NOW.

We will travel from Monday to Monday, departing Oklahoma on Jan. 18 and returning on Jan. 25. Tuesday through Friday will be spent in evangelism projects, and on Friday through Sunday we will lead a regional convention of independent Christian churches in Costa Rica.

Team members will volunteer for one of three teams:

(1) Construction: We will rebuild the classroom building at Iglesia del Evangelio (Church of the Gospel) in San Miguel, San José.

(2) Health clinic: We have two nurses (so far) on our team, and hopefully one or more Costa Rican doctors joining us, to provide minor health care. We need several non-medical personnel to assist with the clinic.

(3) Child evangelism: Our children’s outreach includes playing games with the kids and passing out tracts during the health clinics, and teaching classes during the convention.

Cost of the trip is $1,650, and $100 of that is due this month to reserve a plane ticket.  For more information, please read our detailed: CR4C 2010 Trip Prospectus1.

While doing some research yesterday, I came across a remarkable essay: “The Vital Role of Tentmaking in Paul’s Mission Strategy.”

This 1997 article was written by Ruth E. Siemens, a former missionary to Latin America and Europe and the founder of Global Opportunities (GO), which promotes tentmaking as a missions strategy.

Many Christians know that the Apostle Paul knew the trade of tentmaking, and that while traveling through Asia Minor and Europe as a missionary, he supplemented his ministry income by plying his trade. But Siemens offers a fascinating and provocative analysis in which she says that tentmaking was a crucial element of Paul’s missions strategy.

Siemens argues that tentmaking was not just a “fall back” source of income for Paul, but rather, that Paul earned almost all of his income from his secular trade. She points to evidence of tentmaking during all three of Paul’s missionary tours. She proposes that Paul refused to request or accept donations when they might have been available to him, preferring to be a tentmaker. She argues that tentmaking was Paul’s strategic way to infiltrate a community, and that it also was a method of evangelism that Paul could reproduce in his converts.

In short, and quite remarkably, I think, Siemens attributes Paul’s phenomenal success in spreading the gospel to several nations in a relatively short period of time largely to Paul’s tentmaking strategy.

Siemens correctly points out that Paul also endorsed and encouraged paid ministers. She says that Paul encouraged established churches to generously support their own pastors. But for missionaries seeking to save lost souls and start new churches in a foreign culture, tentmaking should be the norm, or at least a norm, Siemens contends.

The modern Church does not appreciate the significance of Paul’s tentmaking strategy, she says. Rather, we look down our noses at tentmaking. Because of this, we are failing to effectively utilize what could be a powerful strategy for world missions in the 21st century.

Siemens’ article has stretched my thinking. Here are several excerpts from her 9-page article:

• “I will use the term tentmaker to mean missions-committed Christians who support themselves abroad, and make Jesus Christ known on the job and in their free time. They are in full-time ministry even when they have full-time jobs, because they integrate work and witness. They follow Paul’s model of tentmaking, for the same reasons he did it.”

• “Because we cannot finish evangelizing the world without a massive force of such tentmakers, I am amazed at the lack of attention that is given to Paul’s model.”

• “The collapse of the U.S.S.R. not only freed the Soviet satellite nations, and produced 15 new Soviet republics, but it turned almost all non-unaligned governments to the West. Most of them struggle to implement free market economics, multi-party politics and improved human rights, in order to qualify for scarce international aid. All need tentmakers.”

• “By far the largest demand today is for educators, as it was in the early 1950s when I began my teaching and administration in private, secular schools in Latin America. But in addition to education at all levels, professionals and certified technicians are needed especially in health care, engineering, science and technology, business and finance, agriculture and related fields, and computer science.”

• “It [tentmaking] can reduce the attrition rate of missionaries who do not finish their first term or return for a second one– about 30%. Tentmakers who have learned the language and culture at their own expense are tried and proven candidates for mission agencies.”

• “Paul’s example gives a biblical basis [for tentmaking]. This is desperately needed! The mission community is not even sure whether to accept tentmakers as valid workers. Almost all the magazine articles and book chapters on tentmaking in my considerable collection have one common characteristic. They give a few advantages of tentmaking and end up with a long list of disadvantages. Always the same ones, most of which are not defects of lay ministry, but are based on an inadequate definition, and the restrictions of a hostile society. Regular missionaries cannot do a better job in those countires since they cannot enter at all.”

• “Tentmakers are often made out to be second class. They receive little help or encouragement from their churches or the mission community because these do not understand the tentmaker approach to which the tentmakers are called by the Lord. No wonder so relatively few young people are going as tentmakers …”

I am a member of a Facebook group for ministers of independent Christian churches. Occasionally someone will raise a provocative discussion question and solicit responses. Brad Pembleton, a pastor of Cy-Fair Christian Church in Houston, has raised an excellent question:

From your perspective what is the next battle we are going to have to face as a church?

Brad, I have been giving that question a lot of thought for the last few years. My answer is longer than suits “The Wall” on Facebook, so I will post my answer here.

The next great battle that will beleaguer the modern American church is already well under way, but it will get much worse. I am talking about the battle between the ages. Just as Christian churches split over speaking in tongues in the 1970s and over styles of music in the 1990s, today we are seeing more and more churches splitting down generational lines. During the next decade, that Great Divide will become the norm.

Don’t mistakenly synonymize the age divide with the debate over music. The music squabble is/was largely a dispute between us Baby Boomers, who prefer soft rock choruses, and senior citizens, who prefer the older gospel songs in our hymnals. Being forced to choose between the two, most younger Christians lined up with the Baby Boomers in that debate. But the growing division between the generations in the church goes much deeper than musical taste. This is about power: who is in control of the church and who should be. And as Baby Boomers move to the other side of the age divide and Christians in their teens and twenties mature, the rivalry will escalate greatly.

During the 1970s-1990s, beginning perhaps with Willow Creek in 1975, some churches began explicitly targeting younger people. That was occurring in an era when the older generation still had tight hold of the reins in traditional churches, and younger people were seeking a less stifling worship and fellowship environment. Wanting to share in the success of those younger, hipper and usually larger churches, by the 1990s most traditional churches began mimicking the same strategy.

As a result, senior adult members are increasingly being marginalized in our churches. In many, perhaps most, Christian churches today, senior adults are expected to go along with what the younger members dictate and not make any waves. And if you would rather go worship somewhere else, there’s the door.

In response, we now see churches being started by older members who left (from their perspective, were driven out of) their former churches. Your church in Houston has witnessed this first hand, Brad, and we have seen the same thing here in Oklahoma City. It is happening all across the country. In addition, we now see a new phenomenon: churches that are not only started by older Christians but which are explicitly targeting older people in their marketing.

Everything so far has just been the first act. Senior citizens today are the “silent generation.” They tend to take what is dished out to them. They are uncomfortable making waves. But we Baby Boomers are hardly known for keeping quiet. As Baby Boomers continue to grow older, the power struggle between young and old will intensify. And as Christians in their teens and twenties grow older, they will become much more comfortable in expressing their latent resentment toward the Baby Boomer generation.

As these tensions mount, Baby Boomers will clamp down hard on their control of the church. In most churches, they will have the numbers and the dollars to do it. Younger members will be driven off to start a new bumper crop of youth-oriented churches. In some churches younger members will gain the control and the Baby Boomers will march out — in large numbers and taking their large offerings with them — to start churches to their liking. All of this is already happening. But sadly, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg.

Of course, none of this is pleasing to God. But I do not hear anyone denouncing it. To the contrary, most church leaders continue to champion the strategy of targeting specific age groups, despite its obvious corollary of marginalizing other age groups. Ten to fifteen years from now, most churches will clearly identify themselves in all of their marketing and presenting materials as catering to a specific age group, and church-going Christians will never be forced to endure the distasteful experience of rubbing shoulders with believers of other age groups.

Such categorization and division of churches will be the norm, in the same way that we currently accept and even encourage division by age in Sunday School and small groups. Sunday morning will more than ever be the most segregated hour of the week.

But there will be many more battles and blood-letting in our churches on our way to the Great Divide. It can only get much worse as the demographics continue to shift.

Have you heard the old joke about speaking foreign languages?

Q: What do you call a person who can speak several languages?
A: Multilingual.
Q: What do you call a person who can speak two languages?
A: Bilingual.
Q:What do you call a person who can speak only one language?
A: An American.

I am an American, and proud of it. But I confess with some shame that I am not fluent in any language other than my native English. My wife, Norma, has me beat by a longshot. Growing up in south Texas, her first language was Spanish. She didn’t speak any English until she entered the public school system at age 5. Today she speaks English and Spanish beautifully. Me, I’m still struggling to learn the Spanish language.

In January 2008, Norma and I led our first evangelism trip to Costa Rica. It was a great trip, and I was fortunate to recruit several bilingual people in addition to Norma to join our team. To prepare myself for that journey, I decided to buckle down and work at improving my feeble Spanish skills. I searched the Internet for Spanish language products, and decided on Learning Spanish Like Crazy.

Learning Spanish Like Crazy consists of 30 audio lessons plus transcripts. The lessons are about 30 minutes each, and after the first couple of introductory lessons, they are entirely in Spanish. I really enjoyed working through these lessons. I have about a 20-minute drive to work, so I would listen to the lessons coming and going each day. I listened to each lesson 2 or 3 times, and then moved on.

Did those 30 Learning Spanish Like Crazy lessons transform me from a gringo to a fluent Spanish speaker? Hardly. But they did give me a good start.

Let me put it this way. You know the impression we gringos have that Spanish speakers speak way too fast? You know, that’s really not true — it just sounds fast to us because we can’t understand what they are saying. Learning Spanish Like Crazy has helped me to listen faster!

Joshua One Ministries recommends Learning Spanish Like Crazy. If you purchase the lessons here, the ministry will receive a commission on your purchase. Just click here: Learning Spanish Like Crazy.

Gracias, buena suerte, y Dios le bendice!

When I announced the details of our January 2009 evangelism trip to Costa Rica on this website 12 days ago, I never dreamed that I would so quickly be facing the question: is it too late to sign up? But that is exactly the situation we are facing.

We now have 25 people registered on our team. We have made the airline reservations for those 25 — and the plane on which we will be traveling is booked solid. We have negotiated rooms at a hotel in downtown San José and have reserved a 28-passenger bus to transport our group during the week we are in Costa Rica. All the details of our trip can be found here: CR4C 2009 Trip Prospectus: Version 2.

So is it too late for other people to join our team? Let me put it this way — if you want to be part of this adventure, I need to hear from you very soon. I have started a waiting list. I have one name on the list so far, and I received an inquiry from three more last night. Do you want to go? If so, I need to hear from you in a hurry.

We want to take as many people as would like to go. We could use more handy builders to help with our construction project. Those last three inquiries were from medical personnel; if they come along, it will double our capacity at the health clinics and increase our need for non-medical personnel to assist them. If we can arrange it, I would love to have as many as 10 or 15 more team members.

However, adding more people also presents some challenges. We will have to book seats on another flight and see if we can find a similar good rate, ask the hotel to set aside more rooms for us (Costa Rica is a popular vacation destination in January, which is their summer), and reserve a second van or bus for the week.

Before I begin that process, I want to know how many more people we are talking about. So, if you have been thinking about coming, it’s time to make a decision. If you are on the team and have a friend or family member you want to bring along, it’s time to make a decision about that. Yes, I believe we can include some more people on this evangelism adventure … but it begins by you telling us that you really want to go — as soon as possible.

Here is some information about our trip, our 25 team members, and what is in store for us in Costa Rica:

* We will be traveling Jan. 19-Jan. 26. Flight schedules forced us to move our departure up a day, but the team responded with excitement to get to spend an extra day on the field.

* Our team members live in seven different cities in Oklahoma and Missouri: Broken Arrow, Cashion, Edmond, Guthrie, Lawton, Midwest City and Carl’s Junction, Mo.

* They attend eight different churches, including Canton Christian Church, Christian Church of Carl’s Junction (Mo.), Edmond Christian Church, Harvest Christian Church (Lawton), Jones Christian Church, Life Church (Edmond), and churches in Midwest City and Broken Arrow.

* They range in age from the 20s to the 60s.

* We will build a dormitory for a Bible Institute by creating a second story over the kitchen of Iglesia del Evangelio (Church of the Gospel) in San José. We have about eight talented builders on our construction team. We could use a few more.

* We will conduct three days of health clinics at or near three Costa Rican churches. We have two registered nurses on our team, plus at least one Costa Rican doctor who will be providing health care. We will offer a clinic at Patio de Agua, where Costa Rica For Christ started a new church earlier this year. We will also offer a clinic in a community where CR4C hopes to start a new church soon.

* We will facilitate a three-day convention of Costa Rican churches on Jan. 23-25. Terry Hull, director of Joshua One Ministries, will be speaking at the convention, with Ralph Shead of Literature & Teaching Ministries translating.

It’s going to be a great trip. If you want to come, please let me know right away. And if you can’t join us, how about helping us financially. Our dormitory project will cost $7,000-$10,000. The cost of medicines and supplies for the health clinics will continue to escalate as the size of our team grows.

The money being paid by team members will not cover all of our expenses — we are depending upon donations from generous Christians to cover the rest. We have always undertaken projects such as this not knowing where the money was going to come from, but putting our faith in the Lord and His people. If you are willing to help, please send a check to this address.

Wow! On Thursday we posted the first “official details” about our January 2009 evangelism trip to Costa Rica. The response has been amazing! Thirteen people have confirmed their intention to join our team, and seven more have indicated a strong interest. And that’s just four days after the announcement. Fantastic!

I predicted last week that we would have 20-25 people on our team, but it looks I may have been shooting low. So if you have an interest, I suggest that you think it over and let me hear from you soon.

We are currently set up to handle up to 25 team members on this trip. Beyond 25 will require negotiating for more hotel rooms and a second vehicle in addition to the 28-passenger bus we have already reserved. The bigger the team the better. More workers just means more projects we can take on.

However, as the weeks progress, it will become increasingly difficult to switch from a 25-max group to a more-than-25 group. Bottom line, if you’re coming with us, please let us know as soon as you know. And the way to let us know is to send in your $100 nonrefundable deposit to reserve your spot. Make the check to Joshua One Ministries and send it to this address.