Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - RHM Financial Update

We thank God and you for the tremendous outpouring of prayer and financial support to rescue the spiritually dying through RHM. Check out the end of this article for a summary of the major accomplishments you have helped achieve.

Like many other ministries this year, RHM has received less income than our budget called for, but through the grace of God we have been able to adjust our spending to keep our budget close to balanced and still accomplish most of the 2008 rescue goals. Only two major rescue projects are currently pending.

Even as we view God's faithfulness through the first ten months of 2008 we still have a huge time of trust ahead as we approach the end of the year. Many Americans donate to charities and ministries in the months of November and December to maximize their income and maximize their donation under current American tax laws. In previous years this has meant that RHM has received as much as 27% of the total income for the entire year in the months of November and December. God gave the RHM team wisdom in advance of the current economic climate to budget only 20% of the total year's funding for 2008 during the last two months, but with the current economic conditions, it will take a miracle from God to accomplish even this much lower amount.

Matthew 6:24-25 says, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"

Your faithfulness to fulfill your part of the partnership on this rescue team during these difficult economic days has been tremendously encouraging. Thank you. As we approach the last two critical months of this year, would you please prayerfully seek God's will concerning your gift to help RHM finish the year financially strong? Thank you for being faithful to give and pray for your teammates who work at RHM. A few of the results of God's blessings from your faithfulness are as follows:

Native Ministry

• RHM's Native ministry completed their largest Warrior Leadership Summit (WLS) in early July with over 600 in attendance and over 150 committing their life to Christ.
  View the WLS 2008 Highlight Video
• Two On Eagles' Wings (OEW) teams made up of 70 young Native Christian leaders held outreaches on 17 reservations and Reserves in the U.S. and Canada and approximately 700 Native young people began a personal relationship with Jesus.
  Read 2008 OEW Outreach Reports

Event Ministry

• A Community Impact Week happening this month in the northeast with outreaches for youth, business and professionals, college age and parents has already resulted in over 100 commitments to Christ even before the outreach events began.
  Learn more about Community Impact Week

Youth Ministry

• The Path Native youth ministry continues to serve about 75 Native young people on a Southwestern reservation.

Media Ministry

• RHM completed the second year of a project called "Rescue by Radio" where Ron invests his years of experience to help radio personalities to use their influence to share the Gospel in a natural way coming out of a news story or a song. These are individuals who already have influence over a large audience so Ron's years of experience are multiplied.
• Ron continues to do "A Word With You," a 4½-minute radio program and "A Life That Matters," a 90-second radio program. Each program airs five days a week across the nation.
  Subscribe to receive "A Word With You" by email.
• The RHM website had a face lift and traffic and decisions for Christ have gone up dramatically.
  Visit www.Hutchcraft.com.

Small Group Ministry

• RHM completed and released "A Life That Matters" small group video curriculum based on Ron's life book "A Life That Matters. This study helps everyday believers use their personal influence to reach more lost people in their world for Jesus. To order the "A Life That Matters" small group curriculum for your small group go to store.hutchcraft.com.

Ministry Stewardship

• RHM continues to work to be stewards of the gifts you give and based on our annual audit, have again utilized 80% of each gift for ministry. View the total report.