Paul Vieira

I have this idea that came to me the other night as I lied in bed. Over the past several months many people, after reading my book, have contacted me with questions and very encouraging comments. It seems many believers out there can identify with the theme of my book and feel that it has helped to put words to what they were experiencing. Quite often, people will say something like, “if you are ever in our area, please let us know. We would love to have you come visit and share with us and our friends.” Well, throughout the past few years I have made friends in many places in my travels, speaking in churches and conferences. However, lately I have intentionally backed away from these environments, and as a result, my travelling has decreased significantly. I was prepared to not travel at all and live a peaceful life with my family in my home city of Winnipeg. But people keep wondering about the possibilities of having me come visit them. Before, churches would pay my expense to travel and speak to their congregations. Since I have “left the building” this is no longer the situation.

I’ve asked God to show me if He wanted me to continue travelling to encourage believers who are living in exile. The need is there, but how would this kind of thing be financed?

This brings me to my idea. In addition to travelling, it seems that God wants me to continue to encourage exiles through this blog, email correspondence, writing another book and putting out podcasts. All this takes time and I need to be able to feed my family. So, if there are people out there who believe in the message of my book and feel that it would be worth supporting, this is what can be done:

If a small group of believers from a particular town or city together contribute $150 per month, I would be able to come and visit them once a year. This would cover all the costs of travel and provide an honorarium for the work that I do. This would amount to 6 people each donating only $25 per month. $300 per month would release me to visit that group twice a year.

We have a registered charity in Canada and the U.S., so we can give tax donation receipts to each donor at the end of the year.

Anyway, please let me know what you think about this and if you would be interested. Just contact me through the contact page of this site.
I feel this may be a real organic way to help finance a work that helps believers who are living outside the walls. I have a day job that I really enjoy. So I’m not looking at trying to do this full time. I only want to be available to serve God in any way that He wants. If this is not really a need, nothing will happen. That’s okay with me. I feel I can only travel about once per month, so if this is something you feel good about connecting to, please let me know.