1) At 50% funded I was able to add in the $12,000/yr stipend the military will be paying me to work with their chaplain. That bumped me up to 61%, even though I added the total to both my needs and what I'd raised. It doesn't make any sense to me, but then again, I was an English major.
2) My budget was slightly reduced because I decided not to take my required Young Life training classes for academic credit at a seminary, also, I did not do an advanced trip. I did have to add more needs in because of the automatic small raise in salary that happens with all Young Life staff every year, but my budget still ended up reduced. All in all this took my financial needs down to $2,790/month for on-going support ($33,473/yr) and $12,164 for start-up costs.
Both of these things are very encouraging and I am so excited to be moving along in the process! God is good and He provides! Keep praying with me that he will continue to provide the funds to allow me to deploy by this fall! Let me know if I can be praying for you all in any way.
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Laura
***EDIT*** Some of you have wondered how my numbers as a whole have jumped up, over in the little thermometer. Now that I have passed 50% I am allowed to add in the $12,000/yr stipend that the military will be giving me, so I added that to both my needs and what I've raised. That's $36,000 total to each side.
