Deputation - By the Numbers

Start date and location for full-time deputation: Sunday July 26, 2009* in New York

* We had several months of part-time deputation while Sandy was expecting our daughter Pearl. We only had 10% financial support when I quit my job as an engineer to begin deputation full-time.

End date and location for deputation: October 30, 2011 in California

Total miles driven on deputation: approx. 100,000 miles

Longest hours spent driving in a single day: 17 hours

Total number of churches visited: 261*

* 54 of the 261 meetings at churches were mission conferences or mission emphasis days

Total number of prayer cards passed out: approx. 15,000

Total number of States where we had meetings: 27*

* includes churches in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia

Total number of beds slept in: 151*

* Of the 151 beds, 75 were at hotels/condos, 43 were at mission apartments, 33 were at church members’ homes, 1 was at a camp cabin in Colorado

Money spent on gas: approx. $23,000

Money spent on hotels: approx. $10,000