As we enter into the Advent/Christmas Season, we also enter into a new phase/adventure in our service to the Lord through Restoration Ministries. We have the opportunity before us, to obtain an excellent property for a new Restoration Church and start a new phase of ministry. The land and church building is on a main thoroughfare between two population centers, Stanwood and Camano Island, north of Seattle. It is a 6 acre site with an existing church facility. It has been sitting empty for quite sometime. We would love to see a vibrant ministry for Christ happening in this location. We have partnered with a respected investment company called Semble to obtain the property. They have set up a process by which our friends of Restoration Ministries can invest (not donate) and receive a 4% annual return on their investment for 5 years. We have the backing of the North American Mission Board (if we get enough investors for the process) and partner contributions to help us service the loan, do ministry, and pay interest to our investors. Unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of time. The owners of the property are a large church in another town that would like to use the funds from this property for their own ministry initiative and need the funds in January. So, we are asking our ministry partners, friends, and family who believe in the Restoration Ministry vision, to look at our investment website here, read over the material, seek God in prayer, and click the 'Get Started' button. Doing so is NOT a binding agreement but a pledge of what you want to invest. It is not a complicated process to move IRAs/CDs and old 401ks into this investment. Semble will assist any of our investors. Compared to the current performance of these kinds of accounts, most people can quadruple their annual interest return.
To start this new church, in this location, we need our ministry friends to make this decision as quickly as possible.
What happens if our ministry friends don't get on board and invest in this initiative?
1. We do not obtain the property for the new church
2. NAMB funding is contingent on the success of the Semble investment process. So, funds will not be available for Tim's salary or this ministry.
3. Tim will need to get a full-time job outside Restoration Ministries.
4. The momentum of church planting through RM will slow considerably.
5. May God's will be done!
Blessings to all Friends of Restoration Ministries!
