Share Well With Others » contribute http://www.share5.org Compassion, Sacrifice, Passion, Teamwork, Leadership - Creating a Life That Reflects the Character of Christ Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:57:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Share5.org 2010 chad@worldwins.org (Chad Houck) chad@worldwins.org (Chad Houck) 1440 http://www.share5.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/book-presale-ad2.jpg Share Well With Others http://www.share5.org 144 144 Creating a Life That Reflects the Character of Christ - Sharing Well With Others Compassion, Sacrifice, Passion, Teamwork, and Leadership - What would a life built around these character traits look like? What started as an experiment in October 2008 has become an indefinate road trip called the Share5 Tour as the Houck family of 5 travels the US and beyond in their 34 foot RV sharing Jesus and sharing well with others. Be sure to watch for the new book entitled Share Well With Others, releasing soon! Christian, Jesus, Share5, compassion, sacrifice, passion, teamwork, leadership Chad Houck Chad Houck chad@worldwins.org no clean While You Were Sleeping http://www.share5.org/2010/05/while-you-were-sleeping/ http://www.share5.org/2010/05/while-you-were-sleeping/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 07:21:04 +0000 Chad Houck http://www.share5.org/?p=750 Last night, while you and I were sleeping, something amazing was happening across the border in Mexico. YOUR money was hard at work. That’s right. Money from you, our donors, by way of the Share5 Fund, has been working day and night, around the world, bringing opportunity and hope to those who are less fortunate than ourselves. I recently received this update from a loan that YOU helped fund.

Elizabeth Anleu Rodas is a member of Los Pensamientos development group which received a Kiva loan of 65,000 pesos on 21 September 2009. Development groups are groups of more than 10 people which have a bank account and meet weekly or fortnightly to make their repayments. They have a representative and a governing committee. Los Pensamientos group are currently repaying their loan.

Elizabeth works selling fragrances and cosmetics and requested a loan of 1,000 pesos to buy more products and to repay a debt for products that she had already bought. Thanks to this loan Elizabeth has paid off much of her debt, she has purchased new products and she has made a small proft which she used to buy new sneakers for her grandchildren.

When you support Share5, you are supporting hard working women like her not only in Mexico, but also in Cambodia, Burundi, Rwanda, Ghana, Thailand, and the many other places that Share5 has made loans through the Share5 Fund.  AND… because we carefully look to make our loans through specific Christian organizations that provide the loans in the field, we know that the Gospel is being offered to address not only physical poverty, but eternal spiritual poverty as well.  Its a beautiful thing.  Its TEAMWORK in action.

So, thank you for changing lives… while you were sleeping!

See the full list of the over 25 loans that you have helped us provide around the world.

Set up your automatic $5 monthly contribution to assist with the Share5 Fund today!

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This is just one example of how God is using people just like you to meet needs from the simple to the more difficult.  If you would like to be a part of what God is doing with and through Share5, we have a few specific needs for you to consider.

Taking to the Air

We will once again be working with Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee in Atlanta for Catalyst Conference, October 7-9.  Our challenge, however, is making the October 11 departure for the fall UTHbuild trip in Phoenix.  We would like to leave the RV in Atlanta and fly.  We have enough frequent flyer miles for one ticket, and have had $200 pledged towards the remaining tickets.  They are currently between $220 and $275 each, and we need to buy three tickets.  If you have either a) 33,000  flight miles on Delta, or b) can make a cash donation toward the purchase of the tickets, please contact us.

Web Development

With our book “Share Well With Others” coming out in December, we would like to redesign and upgrade our current Share5 website.  We are looking for a skilled web developer to assist and/or direct the project, as well as funds to offset development costs.  (Contact Chad directly by email or by phone at (208)585-7370.)

Publishing Seed Fund

We will be self-publishing our book, which means that we will need to pay up front for the first print run.  If you can help us offset the costs of the books by investing in this process, we would love to hear from you.  Expected expenses for various portions run from $250 to $2000, and we would be happy to share our plan with you if you are interested.  (Contact Chad directly by email or by phone at (208)585-7370.)

Fill‘er Up

Our single biggest ongoing expense is fuel.  If you can help us with a contribution to offset our fuel expense, we sure appreciate it.  We’ve even made it easy.  Just shoot it to us through our PayPal Fuel Fund!  We now have a paypal debit card that we can use right at the pump, and you have the ease of our online contribution system!

Of course, if you would simply like to make a one time contribution to Share5, or wish to set up a monthly recurring donation, we would greatly appreciate your support in that manner as well.

Finally, we could not do what we do without your faithful and continual prayer support, so please, remember us and all those around the world who so greatly appreciate your prayers.

Thank you!

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