photojournalism story

The photojournalism pieces have been uploaded. Praise God!
The website is
www.carolinaphotojournalism.org/ontheline/

The first story “To Hell with Society” is about one of the Vietnam Vets lambs we know and love. The second one “Ministry for the Lost” is from Church in the Woods Garner missions and fishing trips. There are many other stories from RTP.

Praise Report for July 23

July 23, 2007
We are thanking you for your prayers and support as the Lord continues to provide abundantly for this ministry!

Community Awareness – Meetings and missions
· Backyard Bible club is under way. The children’s outreach is conducted on Sundays only from 4:30 PM- 7 PM through August 19th. The address is Thriftwood Dr, Apex (under the trees). Blankets will be needed to serve as classrooms, as well as craft items, and serving hands and hearts. If the Lord is nudging you to serve these children, please contact Talli Sailer at 325-2669 or babybell@scahome.net.

· CitW Medical missions will now be hosting two medical missions per month. The medical mission team has a glucometer. The brand is the TheraSense "FreeStyle". The mission team needs strips, lancets and lancet pen. If you, your church, pharmacy or doctor’s office would like to donate these items please contact Anne or Susan

.Garner Medical mission will be at the Garner Methodist Church from 3 PM and 5PM. If you feel the Lord asking you to serve, Anne Willet is the contact person. Her phone number is 461- 9737.
The dates are as following for 2007:
July 28th
August 25th
October 6th
November 3rd
December 1st

The Apex Medical Mission will be under the trees at Thriftwood Dr. in Apex from 5 PM and 7 PM. If you feel the Lord asking you to serve, Susan Heineman is the contact person. Her phone number is 787-3434.
The dates are as following for 2007:
August 26th
October 7th
November 4th
December 2nd

Prayer and Praise!

Apex
· Thank you Jesus for Your Almighty provisions twice a week
· The Backyard Bible Club has begun. We are praying for more lambs to attend and to help serve this community.

Cary
· A lamb who has been looking for a place at an Oxford House has finally gotten in. He has also completed a week of very hard work in the heat and has continued to meet the requirement of attending a substance abuse meeting every day for a month. We are thanking God for His mighty hand in helping find work for this lamb and another and for keeping them on course. Another praise is both lambs are seeking help with managing their money so they can continue to build up lives that glorify God.
· Please continue to pray for a couple that recently moved into an apartment. They have received a paycheck and have put money away for rent. Please pray that the Lord helps them find strength to continue working and saving and resist any urges to return to old habits.

Garner
· A couple is continuing to look for ways to stay together and get housing. They may be moving to Mississippi to be with family if the family can help with transportation.
· Please keep a lamb in prayer as she awaits a decision on where she will be living after many months of hospitalization.
· The lamb who suffered third-degree burns on his foot is back in the woods and reunited with his dog. Both appear to be doing well, but please pray this lamb can resist alcohol.
· Please continue to pray for a lamb who is trying to get back to his land in Arkansas. At church this week, the message was about giving your life to Christ and about avoiding drunkenness. This lamb admitted he felt it was directed at him.
· Please continue to pray for a lamb who is struggling with liver problems from drinking.
· Please continue to pray for a location for the Garner Thursday mission to meet out of the weather, maybe a church on South Saunders St, 401 or Wilmington St will open their doors one night a week. The Lord with His perfect timing find a perfect place.
· Prayers for a hair stylist at the Garner showers were answered. A lamb says the woman apologized for not bringing all of her clippers and promised to be prepared to do more styling next time.

General
· Please keep lambs in prayer as they are asked to make decisions of walking away from their addictions and walking toward Jesus.
· Thank you Jesus for a lamb who is continuing to be substance free and involved with a support group through AA.
· 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 existing support circle as the Body of Christ encircles a lamb with the love of Jesus!
· Thank you Lord for being scheduler of all Christians’ time.

Missionary Testimonials
A missionary who brought a lamb to alcohol treatment several weeks ago was blessed to get to know several other recovering addicts while waiting there. One young man, after a long conversation, said he would like the missionary to be his “counselor” where previous psychologists and doctors have failed. The missionary said he would only be able to help the man find Christ, the ULTIMATE counselor, and offered to give the man a card so he could be contacted later.

The man was taken to another facility before contact information could be exchanged. But, as God would have it, the missionary ran into the man at a fast-food drive-through last week. They have established communication and are looking for a time to meet and discuss what this man wants to do with his life. Please pray that God is glorified in this process.

God’s Provision – Donations of Time & Finances
· Thank the Lord for the showers each week from the Garner church Thank You Jesus for serving hearts!
· Thank you Jesus for all the food donated by area grocery stores, churches, individuals, and caterers! Thank you Lord for all the donations of clothing, storage places, 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, especially as new ones are developing across Cary and Apex. Praise God!

More and more people are being drawn into communion with one another through the least of these, whether homeless, poverty stricken, prostitutes, drug dealers, or gang members, and so many blessings are being shared!

July 13, 2007

We are thanking you for your prayers and support as the Lord continues to provide abundantly for this ministry!

Community Awareness – Meetings and missions
· Backyard Bible club hosts it’s “Kick-Off” Sunday the 15th with set up at 4:30. The Backyard Bible Club will be conducted on Sundays only from 4:30 PM- 7 PM through August 19th. The address is Thriftwood Dr, Apex (under the trees). Blankets will be needed to serve as classrooms, as well as craft items, and serving hands and hearts. If the Lord is nudging you to serve these children, please contact Talli Sailer at 325-2669 or babybell@scahome.net.
· CitW Medical missions will now be hosting two medical missions per month. The medical mission team has a glucometer. The brand is the TheraSense "FreeStyle". The mission team needs strips, lancets and lancet pen. If you, your church, pharmacy or doctor’s office would like to donate these items please contact Anne or Susan.



Garner Medical mission will be at the Garner Methodist Church from 3 PM and 5PM. If you feel the Lord asking you to serve, Anne Willet is the contact person. Her phone number is 461- 9737.The dates are as following for 2007:
July 28th


August 25th
October 6th


November 3rd
December 1st

The Apex Medical Mission will be under the trees at Thriftwood Dr. in Apex from 5 PM and 7 PM. If you feel the Lord asking you to serve, Susan Heineman is the contact person. Her phone number is 787-3434.The dates are as following for 2007:
August 26th
October 7th
November 4th
December 2nd

· Josh Hamilton, from the Cincinnati Reds, has an awesome story of recovery from drug addiction. It can be read at http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2926447
· An interesting news story concerning volunteerism can be read at http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/1568679/

Prayer and Praise!
Apex
· Thank you Jesus for Your Almighty provisions twice a week
· The lamb recovering from surgery now has an infection and is returning to the hospital today (Friday). Please keep him in your prayers for the Lord’s healing.
· What a gift to have the children run to the tables yelling “the church is here the church is here!”
· After handing out flyers for the Backyard Bible club, teenage boys came to the grassy area to play soccer near the meal and prayer tables. The teenage girls ride their bicycles around the grassy area each week. What a blessing to be “checked out”!
· Missionaries’ neighbor’s sons went on the Wednesday mission. Such bold young men (ages 11 and 13). The young men went from home to home, knocking on doors, making attempts with their “pequeño” Spanish, asking the moms if they wanted food and prayer. The women came to the doors, surprised and frightened to see young men approaching their homes. The missionary standing at the car yelling “Hola” and waving and “enorme” smiles would emerge. The Lord is placing His trust in the neighborhood! We thank you Jesus for Your love and compassion!
· Humanitarian aid is being brought to the Apex mission Sunday and Wednesdays, along with prayer. Please pray that these lambs will see and feel the love of Jesus. This may be the only church they attend.



Cary
· A man from a Men’s Bible study group has been working with the Cary lamb trying to find transitional housing. The summer is usually a great time to find housing due to not as many people searching for help from addictions. This summer there are as many as 8 people interviewing for one opening at transitional homes in the RTP area. This lamb has remained substance free for over a week back on the streets. Praise God! Please continue to pray that he relies on the Lord for his strength and not himself.
· Praise the Lord, several of the lambs have jobs! Please keep them in your prayers as they try to walk out of a pit of murk and mire on their own strength. But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; Isaiah 40:31a
· Praise the Lord, former lambs are opening their home to a lamb who is working in Cary!
· A lamb has been substance free for over a year. He has returned to the streets and can’t be found. Please keep him, his wife and three children in your prayers. The lambs at the motel are responding with God bless you and receptive to prayer.
· The new missionary family was so blessed to bring the love of Christ to the Cary missions Monday. The family loves serving their Lord, Jesus. They had such a blessed time they plan to take the Wednesday/Thursday missions while another missionary is on vacation the week of the 23rd. Keep them in your prayers as they grow in their walks with Jesus.
· A Garner couple has moved into their apartment in the Cary area. The wife has had two job interviews and received one of the jobs, Praise the Lord. However she would love a job at the Family Christian Bookstore. Please keep her in your prayers as she interviews for this job. Another prayer request are for apartment needs. They are asking for a toaster, end tables, lamps, a coffee table, a coffee maker, a vacuum cleaner, curtains, candles, a toilet bowl brush, Clorox, Windex, Thank You cards, a dust pan, 2 extension cords, a mop and bucket, clothes hangers, and SOS pads. If you feel the Lord asking you to donate any of these items please contact Cindy Boyce at 387-0921.
· Humanitarian aid is being brought to an area of poverty in Cary Mondays and Thursdays, along with prayer. Please pray that these lambs will see and feel the love of Jesus. This may be the only church they attend.



Garner
· A couple has been given an apartment. The government found the man was still married. While receiving his divorce, he will move into an Oxford house and she will be moving into her apartment. After his divorce is final they can be married and move into her apartment.
· Please keep a lamb in prayer as she moves to the transitional home in Carrboro Monday.
· The Lord heard your prayers. The lamb who went to the hospital last week has been substance free for a week. She has remained to herself this week.
· Several missionaries took a lamb out for lunch for her birthday this week. What a blessing to witness her joy, acceptance and love. She is no longer using the wrist brace and using her arm. Praise God!
· Please pray for a Garner lamb who is moving back in with her mother. She is continuing to struggle with addictions that are keeping her from being with her son.
· This was a busy court week for many lambs. All the lambs were given continuances. A few lambs stayed with missionaries to have a good meal, shower, and to go to court substance free the following morning.
· Please continue to pray for a lamb who is trying to get back to his land in Arkansas. He joined missionaries for church on Sunday again and attended a Men’s Bible study group. Please pray he feels comfortable with opening himself up to a total reliance on Jesus.
· Please continue to pray for a lamb who is struggling with liver problems from drinking.
· The lamb is recovering from his third degree burns and a systemic infection. He has moved in with missionaries and is bored. He is still tired, especially when he has been on his feet too long. He has been given crossword puzzle and word searches this week and was taken to the library. He will continue to stay in missionaries’ home while they are on vacation. He would love company during the week of July 23rd. His brother in PA calls him daily and may plan a visit during that time. Please continue to keep him in prayer for healing and the peace of the Lord.
· An area veterinarian plans to host a vaccination clinic and neutering clinic in August for the pets of the Lord’s least-of-these.
· Please pray for a lamb who is in jail. Please ask that the Lord speak with Him and remind him that he is loved. He has been transferred to a jail in Goldsboro.
· The Lord’s timing is so perfect. The Thursday mission is meeting in the parking lot in the lambs’ social area. The mission attendance has increased tremendously, as has the respect of no substance use in the mission area. Please continue to pray for a location for the Garner Thursday mission to meet out of the weather, maybe a church on South Saunders St, 401 or Wilmington St will open their doors one night a week. The Lord with His perfect timing find a perfect place.
· Thank you Jesus for the caterer who wants to serve July 26th for the Thursday mission.
· Praise God for a location to meet for the monthly medical missions!
· Please pray for a hair stylist to serve the Lord one Saturday a month at the Garner showers. A missionary’s friend is moving from Chicago this month and is prayerfully considering cutting hair once a month. Thank you Jesus!



General
· Please keep lambs in prayer as they are asked to make decisions of walking away from their addictions and walking toward Jesus.
· Thank you Jesus for a lamb who is continuing to be substance free and involved with a support group through AA.
· 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 existing support circle as the Body of Christ encircles a lamb with the love of Jesus!
· Please pray for missionaries’ cars. The Sunday Moore Square missionary’s car has been without a car all week. The Apex, Cary, Garner missionary couple are both having car problems with both possibly going in the shop today.
· Thank you Lord for being scheduler of all Christians’ time.
· The editor of a Christian magazine recently contacted a missionary who had written for the publication in the past. She said the theme for the next issue is “Restoration” and the Lord told her the cover story should come from Church in the Woods. A story and pictures have been sent for the next issue of “Looking Up Magazine.” (http://www.lookingupmagazine.com/)



Missionary Testimonials
The two lambs who moved into an apartment this week brought together so many blessings from so many places. The man has been working with someone from a men’s Bible study. Another member of that group helped the couple by providing an apartment and letting them do painting and other repairs to help pay for it. Other missionaries have been helping the couple with transportation and money management. A church may be helping them pay the deposit on their utilities.

Now the Lord’s blessings on these lambs are overflowing to others. They volunteer with Church in the Woods outreaches. They have opened their apartment to another lamb and are helping him find work. Praise God for the way He multiplies blessings!

God’s Provision – Donations of Time & Finances
· Thank the Lord for the showers each week from the Garner church Thank You Jesus for serving hearts!
· Thank you Jesus for all the food donated by area grocery stores, churches, individuals, and caterers! Thank you Lord for all the donations of clothing, storage places, 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, especially as new ones are developing across Cary and Apex. Praise God!



More and more people are being drawn into communion with one another through the least of these, whether homeless, poverty stricken, prostitutes, drug dealers, or gang members, and so many blessings are being shared!

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 least of these, whether homeless, poverty stricken, prostitutes, drug dealers, or gang members, and so many blessings are being shared!

Community Awareness – Meetings and missions
• At the Apex mission beginning July 22nd missionaries are beginning a Backyard Bible study on Sundays with set-up at 4:30. The address is Thriftwood Dr, Apex (under the trees). Blankets will be needed to serve as classrooms, as well as craft items, and serving hands and hearts. If the Lord is nudging you to serve these children, please contact Talli Sailer at 325-2669 or babybell@scahome.net.
• CitW Medical mission will be at the Garner Methodist Church July 28th from 3-5 PM. If you are interested in serving, please contact Anne Willet at 461-9737

Prayer and Praise!
Apex
• Thank you Jesus for Your Almighty provisions twice a week
• At the Sunday mission, missionaries wave down cars as they enter the neighborhood or check their mail. Most cars now wave as they pass. Some are even stopping each week. Many children are now coming. This week a man stopped his car and asked for prayer. He started with he wanted to give God glory and praise, they he confused is sins, repented and recommitted his life to Christ. Thank you Jesus!
• The lamb who is recovering from surgery is doing well. Please continue to keep him in your prayers. This week he donated a spiral ham to be cooked for the July 8th mission.
• Former Garner lambs brought two of their children to the Sunday mission. What a blessing to witness the Lord’s discipling! The mother and children went door to door giving families bagged lunches and offering prayer. On Wednesday the third son came as they offered food and prayer. God is so good!
• A Garner missionary asked for prayer two years ago. She has a heart for the children. Missionaries have been praying that the Lord would open a place for her to serve children. She went to the Apex mission one day and was greeted by the children. She began praying “is this the place Lord?” That was three weeks ago. Since that day another couple has volunteered to serve with her family and an Apex church has donated their leftover crafts from their VBS. On Wednesday a single mother asked if the mission could offer some type of children’s program. She wants to help with it. Another church is also interested with helping. Thank you Jesus for the little children! Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
• Humanitarian aid is being brought to the Apex mission Sunday and Wednesdays, along with prayer. Please pray that these lambs will see and feel the love of Jesus. This may be the only church they attend.

Cary
• A Cary lamb has been blessed this week to have transportation to a possible housing solution. He didn’t get in, but God is creating more relationships to help him stay on his walk with Jesus. This lamb was released from alcohol treatment yesterday and the devil put him through trials. One of the lambs at the Garner mission began blasting him with venomous words and he laughed and waved her off. In the old wineskin he would have retaliated with venomous words of his own. He didn’t get into the transitional home in Chapel Hill, the only one he wanted to apply for and is back on the streets. Please pray he finds a job on a bus-line.
• He was released yesterday and the devil put him through trials. One of the Garner lambs at the Garner mission began blasting him with venomous words and he laughed and waved her off. In the old wineskin he would have retaliated with venomous words of his own. He didn’t get into the transitional home in Chapel Hill, the only one he wanted to apply for and is back on the streets. The job needs to be on a bus-line.
• Praise the Lord, several of the lambs have jobs! Please keep them in your prayers as they try to walk out of a pit of murk and mire on their own strength. But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; Isaiah 40:31a
• A lamb has been substance free for over a year. He moved in with his wife and children two months ago. He became lost and was found after several days. One of the Garner, then Cary lambs was called asking if he knew where he could be. The lamb was able to find him and talk with him. The lost lamb has returned home to his wife, children and job and is back into an NA program. He is praising the Lord. It was the longest he has ever been substance free. His goal now is at least until his children are grown. He is asking for prayer that with Jesus he can do this. Seek the LORD and His strength; Seek His face evermore! Psalm 105:4
• The lambs at the motel are responding with God bless you and receptive to prayer.
• The Monday missionary is vacationing next week and needed someone to take the Monday humanitarian aid/prayer mission. Another missionary’s neighbor who has been going on the Wednesday and Thursday humanitarian aid/prayer mission has agreed to serve Monday with his three sons. Please keep them in your prayers as this is their first solo.
• Humanitarian aid is being brought to an area of poverty in Cary Mondays and Thursdays, along with prayer. Please pray that these lambs will see and feel the love of Jesus. This may be the only church they attend.

Garner
• A couple has been given an apartment. The government found the man was still married. While receiving his divorce, he will move into an Oxford house and she will be moving into her apartment. After his divorce is final they can be married and move into her apartment.
• The three lambs who attended the Greg Laurie conference have been blessed this week. The couple had their children for a week, spending time in different missionaries’ homes. The husband has been attending a Men’s Bible Study group in Holly Springs for months. One of the men in the group has given them one of his apartments to rent. The now landlord is allowing them to paint the apartment in exchange for almost a complete month’s rent and is willing to work on the deposit. It is the nicest place they have ever lived. The landlord is praying about starting a business with these lambs. Praise God! Please keep the wife in prayer as she seeks employment. The brother-in-law begins a job in Danville, VA July 16th. Praise God for His almighty provisions! The brother-in-law asked missionaries if they had been praying for him. He has tried to drink a beer since he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Each attempt he has become violently sick. Praise the Lord for His new wineskin!
• Please keep a lamb in prayer as she moves to the transitional home in Carrboro that was a better fit.
• Please pray for God to touch a lamb who is so enslaved by substances that she started using drugs and alcohol the same day she was released from the hospital after a heart attack. The CitW director prayed with her. She returned to the group with the mission witnessing “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” Luke 11:24-26. Her persecution made missionaries rejoice with “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Matthew 5:11. This lamb was taken back to the hospital by force and released from the ER this morning. Please pray that the Holy Spirit fills her each time she asks for prayer and isn’t left void.
• Please continue to pray for the lamb with the broken wrist (since December). Several have prayed for the Lord’s miraculous healing. She is no longer using the wrist brace. Praise God!
• Please pray for a Garner lamb who is moving back in with her mother. She is continuing to struggle with addictions that are keeping her from being with her son.
• Please continue to pray for a lamb who is trying to get back to his land in Arkansas. He joined missionaries for church on Sunday. Please pray he feels comfortable with opening himself up to a total reliance on Jesus.
• Please continue to pray for a lamb who is struggling with liver problems from drinking.
• Thank the Lord He has answered your prayers. Eunice has been found safe!
• Luis is recovering from his third degree burns and a systemic infection. The systemic infection has heightened the risk of amputation. His case manager has required that he live in a dwelling with running water and electricity for 6 months to a year. He has agreed to live with missionaries for the first month. Please continue to keep him in prayer for healing and the peace of the Lord.
• An area veterinarian plans to host a vaccination clinic and neutering clinic in August for the pets of the Lord’s least-of-these.
• Please pray for a lamb who is in jail. Please ask that the Lord speak with Him and remind him that he is loved. He has been transferred to a jail in Goldsboro.
• The Lord’s timing is so perfect. The Thursday mission is meeting in the parking lot in the lambs’ social area. The mission attendance has increased tremendously, as has the respect of no substance use in the mission area. Please continue to pray for a location for the Garner Thursday mission to meet out of the weather, maybe a church on South Saunders St, 401 or Wilmington St will open their doors one night a week. The Lord with His perfect timing find a perfect place.
• Thank you Jesus for the caterer who wants to serve July 26th for the Thursday mission.
• Praise God for a location to meet for the monthly medical missions!
• Please pray for a hair stylist to serve the Lord one Saturday a month at the Garner showers. A missionary’s friend is moving from Chicago this month and is prayerfully considering cutting hair once a month. Thank you Jesus!

General
• Please keep lambs in prayer as they are asked to make decisions of walking away from their addictions and walking toward Jesus.
• Thank you Jesus for a lamb who is continuing to be substance free and involved with a support group through AA.
• 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 existing support circle as the Body of Christ encircles a lamb with the love of Jesus!
• Please pray for missionaries’ cars. The Sunday Moore Square missionary’s car has been without a car all week. The Apex, Cary, Garner missionary couple are both having car problems with both possibly going in the shop today.
• Thank you Lord for being scheduler of all Christians’ time.

Missionary Testimonials
God continues to work through an Apex men’s Bible study, building relationships and strengthening faith. Several homeless men have visited the study. Some have received transportation, Bibles, prayer and friends willing to listen to them. Others have been blessed with jobs and even an apartment. So many are learning what it means to serve and love unconditionally – and to see God work miracles!

God’s Provision – Donations of Time & Finances
• Thank the Lord for the showers each week from the Garner church Thank You Jesus for serving hearts!
• Thank you Jesus for all the food donated by area grocery stores, churches, individuals, and caterers! Thank you Lord for all the donations of clothing, storage places, 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, especially as new ones are developing across Cary and Apex. Praise God!