help us
move to spain
God has invited our family of five to tell more of His incredible stories by moving to Granada, Spain. Spain is a central location for our ministry that will allow us to train and equip more missionaries and share more stories with the Church. It’s a big move and we can’t do it without a big team of supporters. Will you partner with us?
Progress Tracker
Start Up Fund
$29,878 raised of $54,327 goal
Amount Still Needed
$24,149
Time remaining
22 days
Monthly Support
$6,731 raised of $7,529 goal
Amount Still Needed
$797
Time remaining
22 days
Represents a pledged gift
Monthly
Needs
Here are some examples of the work you support when you join our monthly team. Supporting us means supporting our vision of mobilizing the church in the Great Commission, training missionaries in effective communications, and equipping missionaries with free resources and professional communications services that advance their ministries. Supporting us also means supporting our family and allowing our kids to thrive as they grow up in a new culture so that we can better serve missionaries. Your partnership also empowers us to make disciples who make disciples alongside our team in Spain. We can’t do this work without you. Please join our team!
We fulfill 150-200 communications requests from global missionaries (free of charge). These include website design, graphic design, writing, editing, training, support, communications consultation, and more.
Cover Five Work Request Each Month: $100
Pro Services
Communicate on behalf of Team Expansion to thousands of subscribers about the progress in ministering to 70,000+ people in more than 75 fields each week.
Monthly Need: $100
Get the word out
Send 365 Daily Prayer Emails and 56 Weekly Prayer Emails to over 2,000 subscribers who pray intentionally for Team Expansion’s workers and the unreached.
Monthly Need: $100
More Prayer
Gather stories from missionaries and believers, write or edit them, and share them across platforms to help the Church engage in the work.
Monthly Need: $100
Story Gathering
Create new resources to help people engage in missions such as prayer guides, how-to guides, small group studies, church kits, and more.
Monthly Need: $100
free resources
Create handouts that missionaries and mobilization team members can use at churches, schools, and special events to engage people in their work. This includes brochures, stickers, business cards, flyers, and more.
Monthly Need: $100
Mobilization
Train missionaries in using tools that will help them save time and communicate more effectively. Train new missionaries in best practices for communications, storytelling, support raising, and design.
Monthly Need: $100
Training WOrkers
Collaborate with teammates in areas like mobilization, member care, finance, partnership development, training, and more to help them produce professional materials and enhance their communications.
Monthly Need: $100
Collaboration
Keep Carla Caffeinated!
Monthly Need: $30
Coffee for Carla
Help the kids connect with other kids and make new friends!
Monthly Need: $120
Activities for Kids
We can’t do our work without it!
Monthly Need: $50
internet
We want to let the kids choose a fun family outing each month to look forward to even when things are hard, stressful, or sad.
Monthly Need: $100
family outing
We’re hoping the sale of our current vehicles can cover a lot of the initial cost, but we may have a small monthly payment plus gas!
Monthly Need: $250
car stuff
Keep JC Mildly Caffeinated!
Monthly Need: $20
Tea for JC
Help us travel each month to visit different missionaries around the globe
Monthly Need: $150
Monthly Trips
Help us have a place to live each month
Monthly Need: $1500
Rent
We’re planning to join some sort of gym or fitness class or something that will help us stay in shape, provide an outlet for stress, and immerse in Spanish.
Monthly Need: $90
keep us fit
complete!
We promised the kids that we’ll keep eating each day and they’re looking forward to that.
Monthly Need: $600
groceries
Hopefully we’ll never need it.
Monthly Need: $60
life insurance
Help us be able to get old.
Monthly Need: $400
Retirement
¡Necesitamos español!
Monthly Need: $240
Language Classes
Hosting others is going to be an important part of why we’re moving to Spain!
Monthly Need: $100
Hospitality
Spanish health insurance seems pretty great. But hopefully we won’t need it too often!
Monthly Need: $230
Health Insurance
Not sure what to give toward? Give any amount each month and it will be applied wherever the need is greatest.
Monthly Need: ANY
Most Needed
One-Time Needs
Here’s what it takes to get us settled in Spain. What part of the process will you pray over? Is God leading you to cover the cost of one of these needs? To make a donation, please click the button and on the donate page, you can leave a note detailing what item you are covering. Please note that if excess funds are received in one area, those funds will be applied to the next area of greatest need.
We are hoping to purchase plane tickets for our family in June. To do this, we must be at full support by the end of May.
Price per Item: $900
Quantity Needed: 5/5
Plane tickets
Initial scouting trip to Spain to help plan for our move, meet with the existing team, and learn all the ins and outs of moving to Spain.
Price per Item: $1790
Quantity Needed: 0/1
Vision Trip
Complete!
Required cross-cultural training that will help us transition into a new culture more smoothly and successfully.
Price per Item: $3760
Quantity Needed: 0/1
impact training
Complete!
We need unlocked phones that will work in Spain both for the obvious purposes and for media purposes.
Price per Item: $1500
Quantity Needed: 0/2
Cellphones
Complete!
We’re not taking much, but even so, it’s expensive to get things from here to there. Help us move the kids’ favorite toys, our clothes, and essential items!
Price per Item: $1000
Quantity Needed: 1/1
Luggage/Shipping
The typical deposit on a rental in Spain is 3-months rent (this does either go toward rent or gets refunded eventually). Help us get started!
Price per Item: $1500
Quantity Needed: 3/3
rent deposits
All the fees that go with applying for a Spanish visa. Official documents, translations, travel to Chicago, Visa cost, and more!
Price per Item: $2245
Quantity Needed: 0/1
visa fees
Complete!
A lot of people don’t have dryers in Spain, but with three kids and two working parents, it becomes a necessity.
Price per Item: $700
Quantity Needed: 1/1
Clothes dryer
Most apartments come furnished, but we want to keep the boys together and have a guest bedroom, so we’ll need bunk beds!
Price per Item: $400
Quantity Needed: 1/1
Bunk Bed
None of our plugs will work in Spain. Coffeepot, Air Fryer, Toaster, Blender – all these kinds of items will need to be replaced in Spain.
Price per Item: $50
Quantity Needed: 10/10
Small Appliances
We’ll take a couple of our very favorite things with us, but mostly, the walls will be totally blank and sad unless we add things to them.
Price per Item: $50
Quantity Needed: 10/10
Decor
All those little items we expect to have in our house to keep it functional. We’ll know what they are when we need them and no longer have them!
Price per Item: $30
Quantity Needed: 20/20
homegoods
While many rentals come furnished, they are not generally fully furnished. We’ll undoubtedly need to plan to purchase some items.
Price per Item: $200
Quantity Needed: 6/6
Furniture
Our organization has learned that missionaries need to have reserve funds. They require us to raise 3 months of back-up funds.
Price per Item: $7529
Quantity Needed: 2/3
back-up Funds
10% of our funds go into a mission share that helps the org continue to run and provide services to missionaries around the world.
Price per Item: $5432
Quantity Needed: 0/1
teamshare
COMPLETE!
Not sure where to give, but feel led to contribute? That’s amazing! Please make a gift of any amount and we will apply your gift where it’s most needed.
Price per Item: ANY
Quantity Needed: UNLIMITED
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