PRAYER !!!

Hello valued prayer partners!

We've run into a bit of a financial hitch here that we'd appreciate your prayer about.

As Canadian Citizens living abroad, we still file Canadian taxes and are responsible for paying our taxes and CPP and EI payments. We also are eligible to receive any tax credits that anyone else is eligible for.

The Child Tax Credit people asked us to fill out a questionairre to determine our residency status and continued eligibility for the Child tax credit and GST Credit. Through a miscommunication, I did not get all the information to them on time. They have cut off our Child Tax Credit which is 25% of our income!

I immediatley sent them the info they wanted and they received it. They accept the fact that we are factual residents (according to Canada Revenue Agency) but are now asking for more information.

Our contacts in the Canadian Government as well as Canadian Council for Christian Charities all agree that we are still eligible for this benefit- but the government can be fickle and it seems that they are intently looking for information to disqualify us permanently.

Please pray for this need-- for our current and future financial needs-- even if they reinstate us- it likely won't be until May or June! We've lost 25% of our income this month and perhaps for the next several months.

Please also pray that this may be handled correctly so that the government does not begin to target Canadian missionaries who are currently eligible for these benefits!

Thank you for praying!

Mike