Getting the Word Out...

What will the Janku family be doing this year? Well, I'm glad you asked! For the past two plus years, we have been talking to a recruiter with World Harvest Mission. 

They needed someone with construction experience to go on short term trips to support their missionaries with special tasks that ultimately would enhance and grow their on-going missions work around the world. They have presented us with various opportunities over the last two years, but after prayer, none of them felt right, or the timing was not right for our family. This year, they have three opportunities that we felt led to say "yes" to!

UGANDA - August 30-September 14, 2013

On this trip, Scott will be traveling with four other highly skilled craftsmen to work with a single female missionary. Her house had burned when she was away on a furlough. Although she and her adopted children are living in the partially repaired home (it had masonry walls), it still needs a lot of work, including a kitchen and running hot water! The team plans to provide her with a kitchen and solar panels to give her these necessities! They are also hoping to pour a concrete play yard for the children at the school where her adopted daughters attend.

LONDON - October 25 - November 5, 2013

The entire family has been invited to help WHM missionary and church planter Chris Hatch run a VBS! We will also be working with some homeless ministries and getting to know the families in the area that is largely Muslim. We will be joined by Dana Dirksen and the Songs for Saplings team on this trip. (If you have children, you want to get to know their music!) The VBS materials we are using were written just for them, with a construction theme and we will be "practicing" by using the same materials for the kids from our home church, Living Water, this summer. There will also likely be another team member going along with us as well.

CHILE - January 2014

Scott will again be traveling with a group of skilled tradesmen. This time they will begin construction on a home for a local pastor. (It will be completed in two other planned trips.) The home will allow the pastor to focus full-time on his ministry. Many local pastors are required to work outside of their ministries in order to pay rents.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

I'm also glad you asked that question. First, we need prayer. As business owners, it's a little frightening to leave the business for these trips. It's also challenging to take our entire family on a trip. However, we feel confident that the Lord will be going with us and will provide for us every step of the way.

Secondly, we need financial support. For all three trips, we need a total of approximately $17,000. It's a lot, and we definitely can't do it alone. We know that God has a plan to bring in every penny of that and we are excited to see it happen.

URGENT NEED!
Our first expense is to purchase Scott's ticket to Uganda. We are using a travel agent and he was able to put on hold until THURSDAY a ticket for just $1365 - this is an incredible deal - but we don't have any of it set aside yet! Can you help us get there?

There are two ways to send financial help!
1. Mail a check to us at: 3624 NE Everett St. Camas, WA 98607. You can make the check payable to Living Water Community Church and put "Janku" on the memo.
2. Send us money via PayPal using the email address: nwhandymancan@gmail.com.

Thank you all for supporting us in these trips - we are excited to see God work on each of them! We truly do covet your prayers, encouragement and support!