February 23, 2007

We are thanking you for your prayers and support as the Lord continues to provide abundantly for this ministry! More and more people are being drawn into communion with one another through the homeless and so many blessings are being shared!

Community Awareness

• The 10th Annual Homeless Conference is scheduled for April 10-11 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, NC. Sessions will include HUD, Housing Finance Agency, the Key Program, the SOAR initiative, Re-Entry Initiatives, Community Voice Mail, Carolina Homeless Information Network and the Housing First initiative. Martha Are, Homeless Policy Specialist, 919-733-4534
• The NC Coalition to End Homelessness will host a dessert reception to kick off the conference on Monday, April 9, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM at Vintage 21, 209 Oberlin Road, Raleigh (Suggested donation at the door.) Martha Are, Homeless Policy Specialist, 919-733-4534
• Legislative AfternoonWednesday, April 11, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PMThe NC Coalition to End Homelessness (NCCEH) will host an afternoon at theState Legislature. Assistance is also available in scheduling your meetings. Martha Are, Homeless Policy Specialist, 919-733-4534
• Missionaries have been approached by an area newspaper reporter. The reporter would like to shadow some lost lambs for a few days and write the story from this perspective.
• Missionaries have been asked to be interviewed for an area high school social concern project.
• Missionaries have been asked how to begin a similar mission in Texas.
• Medical mobile mission, Thursday, March 29, 2007 at With Love From Jesus from 6:30 until. The team is always in need of doctors, dentists and hygienists. There is an attending physician with the needed liability insurance. Contact Alice McGee at 772-7050, if you are interested in serving.

Prayer and Praise!

• A former area lamb called with a prayer request. Their granddaughter was born this week and is in neo-ICU with complications. Please keep the family in prayers, especially baby Cheyenne.
• Two months ago a lamb was attacked, called EMS because her arm might be broken. She came to the medical mission last night and was told it was a compound fracture. She is scheduled to see the doctor today to receive needed paperwork to get an x-ray. Corrective surgery may be needed, instead of re-breaking it.
• The lamb who received antibiotics last week, face is much improved. He is to stay on antibiotics for an additional two weeks and then be rechecked. Surgery may be required to remove the possible cyst.
• A lamb had been sober for almost two months. He returned home late from an area shelter, losing his job. He began to drink this week.
• An area lamb gave his family in Mexico missionaries’ address. He is awaiting photographs from his family.
• Please keep a lamb couple in your prayers. They are at risk of losing their home. Please pray for the man to take a job opportunity given him.
• A lamb is doing well with his job. Old feelings of unworthiness are creeping into his mind. Pray that he is reminded he is a child of God. Please pray for a group of men to open their hearts and welcome him into the Body of Christ.
• A lamb is working in Cary and looking for affordable housing, under $400 per month, and will allow his dog.
• Last week the Lord answered your prayers for jobs for two lambs. They both have possible jobs in the Apex area. Please pray for affordable housing within walking distances to their jobs.
• An area lamb is feeling more isolated since his move into an apartment a few months ago. He has decided not to attend church in Apex. Please pray for a church near him to open their doors and build a support circle around him bringing him into the arms of the Body of Christ.
• Keep a lamb in prayer who felt isolated from his friends when he moved into a farm house in Holly Springs. He has moved back to the woods to be near his friends.
• Another lamb is looking for affordable housing.
• Please continue to pray for the much needed transitional home in the Cary/Apex area.
• Please continue to pray for support circles as these lambs readjust to society and are welcomed into the Body of Christ.
  
• Praise God for the continual healing of the lamb with an infected arm.
• Praise God for Papa John giving away pizzas in the downtown area yesterday and today for those in need.
• Praise God for the existing support circle as the Body of Christ encircles a lamb with the love of Jesus!
• Praise God for the scholarship for one lamb to attend a men’s retreat next month. Please keep another lamb in your prayers as he prays whether he should go.
• Please continue to keep the director of Church in the Woods’s directors premature twin grandsons in your prayers. Praise God that their father was able to return home this week from Iraq.

Missionary Testimonials
The mission continued its study of Acts. The discussion was the receiving of the Holy Spirit and churches today.

Fishing Trip!
The next trip will be March 10th leaving Hope Chapel at 1:00. The team will be collecting bug spray, sunscreen, lip balm, poison ivy creams, first aid items, and white socks. We will be leaving Hope Chapel at 1:00. Please contact Alice Ligon at appraisalnet@nc.rr.com or Al Boyce at aboyce@nc.rr.com for more information.


TWO New Area White Flag Shelters!

• A second White Flag shelter is opening in Garner. Volunteers and supplies are needed! Contact Carlene at Clucas01@msn.com or 779-3654 for more information.
• An area Cary/Western Raleigh church is opening their facility as a homeless shelter on “White Flag Nights”. Volunteers are needed! The volunteers will be asked to:
  Drive the church vans in the morning or evenings
  Set-up and do the linen laundry, or spend the night.
  Prepare meals
  The church would provide the showers, laundry services and meals for the Lord’s lost lambs. Please keep this in prayer as laundry detergent and toiletry items are needed, as well as, the hands and hearts. Please contact Stephanie at 274-8120 or snarron@worshipfacilities.com, if you are interested in serving.

God’s Provision – Donations of Time & Finances

• An area church called and wants to meet with missionaries to donate $500 of food. Please pray for a much needed storage unit.
• Thank the Lord for the showers each week from the Garner church. Also thank the Lord for the White Flag shelter church in Cary.
• Thank you Lord for the nurses and doctor who treated so many lambs last night. An area high school student also came to assist with the medical mission team. An area acupuncturist again donated time this week as she continues to treat the Lord’s lambs for substance abuse and other treatments!
• Thank you Jesus for all the food donated by area grocery stores, churches, Kairos prison team, caterers, and individuals! Thank you Lord for all the donations of clothing, camping equipment, blankets, candles, and toiletries donated this week.
• We thank you, Jesus, for those who have donated time showing the love of Jesus through relationships and support circles.