Week 5

Another week has passed and God continues to do amazing things. Several more donations have come in for our plane tickets. We now only need $3700! We are so close to being able to buy our tickets. We are also very close to our deadline too. If we are to get back on time we need your help. I want to thank each one of you for being such wonderful advocates. Your prayers and support have come at just the right time and in just the right way. Truly yours is a heart for the Kingdom.

If you would like to help you can visit our page on the Wycliffe web site: http://www.wycliffe.org/Partnership.aspx?mid=Z2OH1L, click on our picture and follow the instructions or send a check to the address listed below. Make the check payable to Wycliffe Bible Translators and attach a note “for the ministry of Matt and Tiffany Crosland (215582). Would you also please let me know if you plan on giving? (matt_crosland@wycliffe.org or 864-494-7937) I need to keep an up-to-date record of where we stand and give an accurate report to our supervisor.

Wycliffe Bible Translators

PO Box 628200

Orlando, FL 32862-8200 

                We have not heard anything else about our visas. Please continue to pray they will be processed quickly. We have to have them in hand before we can board the plane. Also pray that the remaining funds for our plane tickets will come quickly.

Thank you,

Matt and Tiffany Crosland

Financial Update

Dear Friends,

God did it!!! We have reached our monthly support goal. Thanks to every one of you who has made this possible. But this is not all the good news.

                I also received word that my work permit has been approved and our visa paperwork has been given to the visa office in Port Moresby (the capitol of Papua New Guinea). I also got the okay to go ahead and send our passports and duplicate visa paperwork in to the PNG embassy in Washington, DC. Once the visas are approved in PNG they will put the actual visas in our passports in Washington and return them to us. But that is not all either.

                We also received another donation toward our plane tickets. We now only need $4500 before we can purchase our tickets. Would you like to help get us back to our work in PNG?

Just visit our page on the Wycliffe web site: http://www.wycliffe.org/Partnership.aspx?mid=Z2OH1L, click on our picture and follow the instructions or send a check to the address listed below. Make the check payable to Wycliffe Bible Translators and attach a note “for the ministry of Matt and Tiffany Crosland (215582). All gifts made to us through Wycliffe are tax deductible. Would you also please let me know if you plan on giving? (matt_crosland@wycliffe.org or 864-494-7937) I need to keep an up-to-date record of where we stand and give an accurate report to our supervisor.  You can keep up with us regularly by liking our page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Croslands-In-PNG/153390898097461?ref=hl

Wycliffe Bible Translators          

PO Box 628200

Orlando, FL 32862-8200

                Please continue to pray that our visas are processed quickly and that the last bit of money for our plane tickets comes in soon. We have also begun the process of sorting through and collecting things to be shipped back to PNG for the next three years. Please pray for wisdom and strength as we go through this process.

 

             Thank you again and keep praying!!!

Matt and Tiffany Crosland

Week 4 Update

It has been another truly remarkable week. God never ceases to amaze us. We now only need $27 in monthly support to be at 100%. We are so close now; will you be the one to push us over the top?

                We also had a generous commitment to our plane tickets as well. We now only need $5000 to purchase our return trip tickets. How wonderful it is to see God’s hand at work through his children.

                We are still in great need for prayer in these areas. But I want to ask you to say a special prayer this week for my work permit. We cannot submit our visa paperwork until my work permit is approved. Please pray that it gets done this week and that our visa stuff can be processed very quickly. We know that God can do this. We have seen Him do it before.

If you would like to help you can visit our page on the Wycliffe web site: http://www.wycliffe.org/Partnership.aspx?mid=Z2OH1L, click on our picture and follow the instructions or send a check to the address listed below. Make the check payable to Wycliffe Bible Translators and attach a note “for the ministry of Matt and Tiffany Crosland (215582). All gifts made to us through Wycliffe are tax deductible. Would you also please let me know if you plan on giving? (matt_crosland@wycliffe.org or 864-494-7937) I need to keep an up-to-date record of where we stand and give an accurate report to our supervisor.  You can keep up with us regularly by liking our page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Croslands-In-PNG/153390898097461?ref=hl

             Thank you again and keep praying!!!

Matt and Tiffany Crosland

Wycliffe Bible Translators

PO Box 628200

Orlando, FL 32862-8200

Financial update- week 3

We continue to be amazed as God works to bring us back to Papua New Guinea. As of today we only need $402 in monthly support to return to PNG.

We have some more good news. We were able to work with the passport office and get the three passports we were waiting on expedited. They arrived yesterday. I sent off our visa applications last night but they cannot be filed until I receive my work permit. Please pray that it comes quickly.

Our last point of prayer is our plane tickets. We talked to our travel agent last week. She gave us an estimate of what the tickets back to PNG would cost. They were considerably cheaper than we thought they might be. We have been saving since we returned to the US but we don’t have all the money yet. We still need about $6000 for the tickets.

We ask that you do two things. First be in prayer for all the above items. God is working and we need your prayers to help finish the task. Second is prayerfully consider becoming a part of our support team. We need your help to return to our work in PNG.

If you would like to help you can visit our page on the Wycliffe web site: http://www.wycliffe.org/Partnership.aspx?mid=Z2OH1L, click on our picture and follow the instructions or send a check to the address listed below. Make the check payable to Wycliffe Bible Translators and attach a note “for the ministry of Matt and Tiffany Crosland (215582). Would you also please let me know if you plan on giving? (matt_crosland@wycliffe.org or 864-494-7937) I need to keep an up-to-date record of where we stand and give an accurate report to our supervisor.

Wycliffe Bible Translators

PO Box 628200

Orlando, FL 32862-8200

 

Thank you again and keep praying!!!

Matt and Tiffany Crosland

financial update- week 2

Dear Friends,

I received an email from the Nobnob (our language group) translators this week, telling about how anxious all of our Papua New Guinean friends are for us to return. I also talked with the new directors of POC (the training course where we serve). They have been getting by bringing temporary staff in for a few months at a time to fill in while we are gone. They are between fill-ins right now and the next one is only going to be able to stay for a month. Continuity is what POC and the broader Nobnob community needs. The directors have asked that we come back as soon as we can.

As I told you last week our goal is to be back by early July. This means having all of our monthly support, paperwork, and plane tickets by June 1. We had a setback this week with our passports. We got back one of the four we were waiting on. The other three were delayed because they needed more documentation. Please pray that they will be hurried through the process.

We have great news about our financial status. We only need $467 more in monthly support. God has been doing amazing things this week. We still need you to help us finish. Please prayerfully consider becoming a part of our team.

                If you would like to give online you can go to our page on the Wycliffe website: http://www.wycliffe.org/Partnership.aspx?mid=Z2OH1L, click on our picture, and follow the instructions. If you are interested in mailing a check you can send it to:

Wycliffe Bible Translators

PO Box 628200

Orlando, FL 32862-8200

 

Please attach a note stating “for the ministry of Matt and Tiffany Crosland (215582).” Because time is short we ask you to let us know about your commitment via email. It is very important we keep our supervisor up-to-date with where we stand financially.

 

Thank you,

Matt and Tiffany Crosland