Juggling a list of to-do items while sorting and packing for a four-year journey, Carla Evans is right where God intends. She and her husband, Jason, and 23-month-old son, Jaxon, are headed to the mission field.
The Evans have been involved in mission work for the past eight years on short terms mostly in the Czech Republic, but now they are career missionaries with Global Partners.
Their objective is to be full-time missionaries, said Russ Cowfer, Carla's grandfather.
In September 2007, they were appointed to the Czech Republic. In August 2008 the Evans began speaking in churches about their work while acquiring faith promise partners to support them in the field.
"We did have a budget we had to meet at 100 percent in order to have clearance to leave. We had to raise a little over half a million dollars along with a start-up fund," Evans said.
The start-up funds purchase a vehicle, furniture and things to get them settled overseas, she said.
The budget includes their salary of less than $20,000, pension, insurance, compensating for the high exchange rate and necessities, but no trips home. Technology will keep them in touch with family.
"God helped us raise the start-up funds through love offerings and individual donations and two fundraisers," she said.
Gibbs Chapel had a combined sale and 10 churches from the Gastonia area hosted a give-and-go challenge when participants sacrificed an item and donated the money to the Evans.
"In a weekend, God finished up our start-up fund and in a little over a year God provided all the funds to meet our budget," Carla said.
Cowfer remarked, "It's amazing what God's done. When Carla began telling us about their plans I didn't have the faith she had. She told me God put it in their heart, and He will provide and He did. It was a miracle."
Evans agreed: "It has been amazing for us and affirming that this is where God wants us to go."
Carla will minister in music at a local church while Jason does sports ministry at a ministry center in Maják. She is certified to teach English and will do that at the ministry center and businesses in the town.
"We will minister and work alongside of the family," she said.
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