2026 March Newsletter

Thank you so much for your faithful generosity in giving and praying for your pastor. We now partner with approximately 250 pastors in 15 countries. You are having a gigantic impact in growing the Kingdom of God in the places where God has incredible compassion. Live Connection partnerships have been $70 a month for the past 11 years. Yet, over the past eleven years we have seen inflation increase by 35% in Australia. The challenge we are now confronted with is that the impact of inflation in the poorer countries of the world and the places where our pastors serve is of even greater severity. Events like droughts and floods, food shortages, political unrest and wars and fighting, mean our pastors are facing real challenges. We are aware of the pressures we are facing currently in Australia – with rising fuel costs and cost of living and the flow on effect of that on our family budgets. For the Live Connection administration team, the cost of transferring money has drastically increased over the past years due to our anti-money laundering obligations.

We are asking you to prayerfully consider increasing your financial partnership with Live Connection from $70 to $80 per month.

The breakdown would look like this:

Pastor Partnership will increase with $5, going from $50 to $55

Global Training will increase with $1, going from $5 to $6

Regional Training will increase with $1, going from $5 to $6

Transfer fees and a contribution to admin will increase with $3, going from $10 to $13

If you can, your generosity will better alleviate some of the struggle for our pastors, increase the help with the training and equipping of our pastors and help us, the Live Connection administration, run the vision without the financial struggle.

This increase of $10 a month (equating to only $0.33 a day) is the first increase since 2015. This will allow us to better support and resource our Pastors. This new partnership fee of $80 a month for our pastors will come into effect on the 1st of May 2026 and will be reviewed annually. If you are able to make this adjustment, please simply email admin@liveconnection.org to update your existing support level to $80 a month, or if you have any questions about your partnership with Live Connection. Thanks again for your partnership in this ministry.

Paul Ravesteyn President Live Connection Australia Inc. “Assisting Pastors to Proclaim the Good News”