Prayer Needs Pray as we make our final preparations to move to Ecuador. Pray the Visa process goes smoothly & on time. Pray our family van sells prior to us leaving. Pray our focus is continuously on the Lord & His Kingdom & His righteousness. Praises Praise the Lord as we celebrate our 16th anniversary on December 2nd! Brad & Kim December 2, 1995 Praise the Lord as we celebrate Kim’s __ birthday on December 7th!

Brad & Kim December 2, 1995
at Shirley Hills Baptist Church
in Warner Robins GA

Thanksgiving is the time of year people reflect back on the previous year and give thanks to God for all He has done.  What a difference a year makes!  This time last year I was still working for the Memphis Police Department even though I had graduated from Mid-America earlier in the year.  Our dreams to become missionaries with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention had just come to an end.  Yet, we still felt the LORD had called us to serve Him as foreign missionaries and had begun following HIS lead searching and praying about how we might obey HIM.

We were led to join a missionary organization in Tupelo, MS named Global Outreach International, and in February of 2011 became a part of their missions’ family.  Within a month of then I had left the police department and we began raising support full-time. 

In the months since the Lord has taught Kim and I more about who HE is and how to depend on HIM more than any other time in our lives.  We are humbled as we see the Lord working in and through us, and give HIM all the glory for everything that has happened over the past year and acknowledge our continuous need for HIM in the coming year.

Recently I was talking with a good brother in Christ and he was telling me about a sermon he had listened to that used the words to describe believers as “Honored Failures.”  Since then I have thought a lot about this term, and contemplated its significance as a follower of Christ, and have two observations concerning being an “Honored Failure.” 

One, we are honored by God despite of our sins and our failures by having the righteousness of Christ applied to us through HIS blood.  Two, even as HIS followers we are fallen and incapable of righteousness apart from HIM and we should always seek to HONOR the name of Jesus with our voices, our time, and our lives.  Recognizing it is only in HIM we have anything to boast about, and could complete nothing apart from HIS grace and strength working in and through our lives.  

New News

We are finishing all the necessary paper work for our visa’s to Ecuador & should have them in about 4 weeks.  Once we have our visa’s we can purchase our plane tickets. Our hope is to still leave sometime in January.

We are currently a little over 93% of our monthly budgeted goals pledged.  Numerically this means we are only $350.00 shy of our $5,000.00 a month budget goal. This budget reflects both salary & ministry expenses.

We want to THANK EVERYONE who has prayed and/or given to us these past months, and to those who support us monthly.

We only need 14 new $25.00 a month commitments to be fully funded.  We ask you to prayerfully consider supporting us monthly. Let us know of your commitment by sending back the card included in the envelope, or write a note telling us of your commitment and send it to: 

Global Outreach International

P.O. Box 1, Tupelo, MS 38802

Account # 3377 (Brad & Kim Savage

Thank you for all of your prayers & financial support!  Have a Merry Christmas!

Plans (Part #4): Where ever He leads I'll follow....unless

A path in Ecuador leading down the mountain.

I have been involved in a SBC (Southern Baptist Church) since before I can remember and it was in a SBC that I received Jesus as Lord of my life.  Kim, although not raised in a Christian home, was led to the Lord by a member of a SBC and has been involved in a SBC since that time.  Naturally we thought we would go to the mission field with the IMB (International Mission Board) of the SBC, and we began the application process with the IMB in 2008 two years out from me graduating from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary.

In May 2010 I graduated from Mid-America, and Kim & I had completed all the necessary paper work, background checks, and interviews with the IMB and were just waiting on a job match.  However, these were our plans, our way of accomplishing what God had called us to and not necessarily His path for our family.  In July of 2010 we found out that the IMB was unable to send us at that time, and we were told to check back in a year, but there was a problem with that idea.  Alayna, our oldest, had just turned 12 and in a year would be 13 and the IMB will not appoint a family who has a 13 year old child.

Kim & I were devastated and confused by the news.  What did this mean?  Had we missed our call?  Had we wasted all this time and effort in seminary for no reason?  What now?  Personally, I was resistant to the thought of going with another organization other than the IMB because I understood this meant having to raise our own support.  Besides didn't God know we were in the middle of a recession?  In my heart I was not willing to go under these circumstances, it did not fit into my plans.

However, after a time of seeking the Lord, God confirmed to us that HE was still calling us to serve Him cross-culturally, and HE would provided a way.  Humbled, I submitted to follow HIM down any path HE led us to go on.  I am thankful for my wife Kim who not only was willing to follow my lead as the Lord led me; but also, was much more confident in the Lord's provision from the beginning and a voice of encouragement throughout.

You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in your right hand there are pleasures forever. 


 - Psalm 16:11