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Our Button Is Fixed. Now We Need You to Push It.

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NOT THIS ONE – the one in the sidebar at right.

UPDATE, 12:25 p.m. Eastern Time: Now the dang button is working sporadically – on again, off again. Sorry for the frustration.

The weekend before we planned to launch our 2016 fundraising drive on All Saints’ Day, our Donate button stopped working. It took a couple of weeks to fix it. Now it’s working again, and we ask you to pray first, then push it.

Same as last year, we ask you for $10 from every e-mail subscriber, East and West – more if you can afford it, less if you can’t. The prayers are free, but we have bills to pay. (Last month we didn’t make payroll and I had to lend us $1000.)

Our proposed budget for 2016 is $30,000. Details are here. This is a one-third increase over last year – because it has been another year of spectacular 40% growth. And we haven’t topped out yet.

Twice a day we send out 3000 e-mails people have asked for – and we post on Facebook (3200 members) and Twitter (300 followers), get Shared and Retweeted; welcome 900 additional visitors and, thanks to dioceses and parishes linking to us, reach up to 10,000 people every day.

You know about our daily webcasts. On November 30 we’ll begin an early service at 7 a.m. Eastern Time. And this year we held our first retreat and our first two celebrations of Holy Eucharist.

Yes, it takes a lot of work to manage all this; it’s a full-time job, for which, as of January 1 when we officially come under the aegis of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, we must pay the Vicar minimum wage – which is actually a 25% increase, to comply with wage and hour laws. We don’t want the Bishop to get arrested, she would not like that!

Donations to The Daily Office have always been tax-deductible and will remain so under diocesan auspices.

The Diocese is also contributing $1000 AND taking over our accounting so that the Vicar can do evangelism instead of bookkeeping.

When you give to us, you are proclaiming the Good News of Christ with us. It’s everyone’s job according to our baptismal covenant, and this is a way for you to fulfill it, without having to hand out tracts or argue on street corners.

You also participate with us in the other great works of mission: feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, proclaiming freedom to the oppressed, giving a drink of water in Jesus’s name. We give 10% of our budget to buy Lunches and Lessons at Mithon Episcopal School in Haiti; to fight famine in South Sudan; to strengthen heroic ministries on Indian reservations in South Dakota; and this year we want to establish a nursing scholarship at Cuttington University in Liberia, a country hard hit by the Ebola outbreak in 2015, in honor of one of our beloved webcasters; establish a relationship with the Episcopal Diocese of Brasilia; and support Episcopal Relief and Development, a 4-star rated agency with a perfect 100 score in accountability and transparency according to Charity Navigator.

Will you help us? Please pray for us, and for your own vocation as a member of the Jesus Movement; and click the Donate button in the sidebar.

Thank you,

Josh Thomas
Founder & Evangelist

November 16, 2015

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