Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for my God, who is glorious and worthy of all praise! I am thankful for His Son by whom I am adopted into His family! I am thankful for the Holy Spirit that enables me to communicate and be guided by my heavenly Father!

I am also thankful for all of you! If you are reading this it is because you are invested with me in the expansion of God's Kingdom. As I reflect back on this year, I want to apologize that I did not communicate better some of the things I was going through. I robbed you from participating and myself of the power of your prayers. I was discouraged by my lack of recruiting this year and having to cancel a few trips. However I was encouraged by the trips I was able to do and even a trip that got plopped into my lap fully-recruited and ready-to-go! I am also encouraged that I have a trip on the calendar for next summer (with churches committed to providing the team), and more trips in the works.

I will be mailing out a Christmas letter soon with more information and updates, but I wanted to get an update out to my electronic community because some of you are not on my mailing list. (If you don't think you are on my mailing list and would like to receive my Christmas letter, please email me your address chris.truax@e3partners.org)

The main thing I would like you to be praying about is my financial support. The Lord has always provided for me in this area and I have faith that He will again. There are two main reasons why my finances need your prayers, and two main ways you can pray about partnering with me to help meet these needs.

1. This year I have had a few of my monthly donors have to drop off because of life change (loss of job, having a baby, etc.). I really could use some of you to pray about committing to give $50, $100, or $200 a month for 2011. (Or those who already give, maybe you have the capacity to raise your monthly gift.)

2. I found out that my car needs a new timing belt. This is not a cheap repair. It will probably cost between $1000-1500 to replace. Please pray and ask the Lord if He wants to use you to help meet this need.

You can give to both of these needs by going to http://www.e3partners.org, then hover over the word "give" on the title bar, when the pop-up menu appears click on "Donate Today". On the form be sure to:

Choose "Other" in the Designation field. A blank box will appear.

Type in this information, "Chris Truax's Support Account" in the Other field.

If you are committing to give monthly be sure to change the type of gift to "recurring gift".

You can also mail in a check to: e3 Partners Ministry, 2001 W. Plano Parkway, Suite 2600, Plano, TX 75075. Be sure to make out the check to e3 Partners Ministry, and include a note that says, "for Chris Truax's Support Account".

I pray that my desire matches Paul's in Phillipians 4:17, "Not that I desire your gifts; what I desire is that more be credited to your account."