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A New Season, A New Home
Spring is a time of year that brings many changes: time change, more daylight, budding flowers and trees, and warmer temperatures. There are also many changes happening in our lives this Spring.
We are both quitting our current jobs to work full-time on raising support. We are also moving from Michigan to South Carolina at the end of May to work on raising support in the South. These are not easy transitions, but we know God will meet our needs as we look to Him. We can’t wait to see how He’s going to provide!

Support Raising Boot Camp
The last two days of March, we participated in a two-day support raising boot camp training in Charlotte, NC. We were inspired by the speakers, practiced and refined our presentations and phone calls, and made some new friends.
It was a wonderful learning and growing experience for both of us, and we came away very encouraged and motivated to work harder on raising support. As a result of the Boot Camp, we have moved our goal for raising 100% support from September to the end of July 2017. We would like to be on the field before the end of this year if God allows.

New friends from Support Raising Boot Camp

Church Missions Presentations
We’ve been privileged to share our ministry with three different churches over the last couple months: Eden Bible and Kingsley Baptist here in Michigan, and Iglesia Bautista Nuevo Amanecer in South Carolina. We have a couple more presentations scheduled in June at our home church in South Carolina, Suber Road Baptist, as well as Gospel Life Baptist in West Virginia, and we are working on filling up our schedule for June and July.

Presenting our ministry at Iglesia Bautista Nuevo Amanecer

Individual Missions Presentations
In addition to our church missions presentations, much of our time and focus has been on sharing our ministry with individuals and families who are interested in partnering with us financially in our mission work.
We have really enjoyed getting to know so many people from our church especially, and we are so thankful for how God is moving many to partner with us!
Nearly all our monthly committed support is from individuals. Currently we are right at 20% of our monthly committed support. Slowly but surely, God is meeting our needs, just as He promised He would.

Missions Conference at BBC
We have been invited to participate in Bible Baptist Church’s annual missions conference this year from April 29-May 2. We are excited for more opportunities to share our ministry with our home church here in Michigan, and we look forward to fellowship with the other missionaries who come as well.

Prayer Requests 
Pray that we would continue to trust God and work hard at raising support.
Pray for wisdom as we move and transition to SC in the coming month.

Thank you so much for your support and prayers for us! We can’t wait to see what God is going to do!

Your fellow servants,

Chris and Sarah Collins

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