August 6, 2007

We are thanking you for your prayers and support as the Lord continues to provide abundantly for this ministry. There are so many prayer requests and praise reports!!! God is good all the time!

Prayer and Praise!
Apex

• Thank you Jesus for Your Almighty provisions twice a week
  The lamb who is paralyzed has some immediate needs. He is asking for prayer for the Lord’s provision of the following items: - 0.9% Sodium Chloride irrigation- Gauze- donut cushion (he has bed sores)- Dermal wound cleaner - Duoderm Control Gel Formula Dressing.
  His mother is asking for prayer for a home doctor visit. It is difficult to move the lamb from their home. The medical mission nurse who has been making home visits in on a mission trip in South America. Please keep this family and their needs in your prayers.
• Thank you Jesus for you loving and healing hands. This lamb’s lonely heart has already received His healing. Praise God, he would like to attend church. The lamb recovering from surgery has seen the infectious disease doctor. He sees the surgeon Friday for his MRI results. Please keep him in your prayers for the Lord’s healing.
• Thank you Jesus for the children. Again they run to the cars yelling "the church is here, the church is here." About twenty children came to the Backyard Bible Club. The leaders needed to leave at 5:30 due to another commitment. The group was able to hear a reading from the Bible and make crafts. The children brought the crafts to the adult area for a meal, ice cream cake, and to tell about the Bible. Please pray for more children missionaries. Beginning August 19th there will be no leaders.
• After a moving sermon a brother in Christ told CitW missionaries he wanted to serve in this area. He speaks fluent Spanish. Praise the Lord!!!! The Lord used him to break the language barrier and doors were opened. The missionaries were invited into home to discuss problems, Jesus, and the difference betweens Christian beliefs. This new CitW missionary would like to begin a Hispanic Adult Bible club. Thank you Jesus!
• A lamb had been praying for someone who spoke Spanish to attend the "Church" today because she had received a letter from immigrations. What a gift to see the Body of Christ at work, one missionary with needed information and the other with the needed language. Please keep her and her family in your prayers as she begins this legal process with immigration. She needs to bring a lawyer with her to Charlotte. Please pray for a lawyer to step forward for her as well.
• While missionaries were out of town, their neighbor and sons went on the Wednesday mission. It was such a blessing for that these young men had been in the community for several weeks because the families are beginning to trust them. We thank you Jesus for Your love and compassion!
• One lamb who had several strokes a few months back told missionaries he has been healed (no more walker, no more cane) and was able to return to work. He no longer needed to talk food from us and his prayers had been answered. The longer he talked the more he realized he still needed Jesus. He thanked the Lord for His mighty healing and His mighty provisions.
• The first medical mission is August 26th. Susan Heineman is the contact person. Her phone number is 787-3434.
• 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

• The Lord is moving mightily on the streets of Cary. The number of Cary homeless has decreased. Most now have employment, with this employment comes a sense of worth. With this worth comes a seeking of Jesus.
• One lamb has been at an Oxford in Garner and has almost completed his 30/30. The house has approved that attending church and Bible studies can count as a meeting. Thank you Jesus!!!!
• Another lamb is working and sober. He has had a haircut and feels good about himself. He is ready to come back to church. Praise the Lord!
• A lamb is in jail. Please pray for his family, wife and three children. Thank you Jesus, this will be used for Your Kingdom.
• The lamb couple who moved into the Cary apartment was blessed to have two of their three children this week. Praise the Lord! The children and wife attended the Apex mission Sunday serving at the adult table while other missionaries went door to door. Their landlord is able to ask the husband to do "handyman" work around the complex to lower each month’s rent payment. Praise the Lord! The wife is talking with the manager at the Family Christian Bookstore on Friday. Please keep her in your prayers as she interviews for this job. Please keep the husband in prayer as he would like a study, 8-5 job. Another prayer request is 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 Susan Vaughan at 803-4122.
• A lamb who has been living in a transitional home is looking for an apartment in the Cary area. Please keep him in prayer as the Lord provides him housing.
• 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

• One of the Garner lambs died August 1st. He took the bus to the hospital the week before and asked the nurses to contact missionaries once he had passed. He told the nurse to tell them he was a t peace with the Lord and sober. Praise the Lord!!! His brother has come to take his body to MI where he will be laid to rest beside his parents. His memorial will be Thursday, Aug 23rd at Ernest Myatt Presbyterian Church, 4926 Fayetteville Rd beginning at 7 PM. Donations for helium balloons has already been made. The donor requested a prayer be released with each. His obituary was in the August 5th paper. He was loved by so many. It can be viewed online at
  http://www.legacy.com/newsobserver/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=92087942
• Missionaries came home from vacation to find several lambs in the hospital: one for such a severe case of conjunctivitis he was hospitalized for three days; another with the third degree burns is now infected; and the third with stomach issues, he was x-rayed and waiting to hear from the surgeon. Please keep these lambs in your prayers for the Lord’s mighty healing.
• The Garner laundry facility has asked the lambs to only use the facility during non-peak times. Praise the Lord they are still able to use the facility!
  The Lord has heard your prayers for a hair stylist. One has moved from Chicago and will begin donating her time monthly at the Saturday showers beginning in September. Thank you Jesus!
• Thank you Jesus, the lamb couple has found an apartment! The Lord heard your prayers!
  Please continue to pray for a lamb who is trying to get back to his land in Arkansas. Please pray he feels comfortable with opening himself up to a total reliance on Jesus.
• The next Medical mission is August 25th from 3:00-4:30. Anne Willet is the contact person. Her phone number is 461- 9737.
• The lamb in jail was released this week. Please pray that he listens to the Lord voice and not the voice of his past.

General

• Please keep lambs in prayer as they are asked to make decisions of walking away from their addictions and walking toward Jesus.
• The Lord’s hand is being seen in all things such as prayers for finding items, court dates and relationships with others and Christ. Please continue the prayers that each lamb relies on Jesus for all things.
• 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
Today I delivered my brother’s bike to a man struggling with sobriety, and in need of a "ride". He was extremely grateful for the gift, and then I remembered how much that bike helped my brother. He used it to go places, as well as keeping in shape. It also allowed him to get out in the world and see some of his dreams up close and personal. I also remember when he bought it, I thought why does he need a bike when he can barely walk. Good thing I'm not running the universe, because I didn't see that the bike was a symbol of hope for my brother, and I hope that it has the same effect on this man, who got the bike. I told him my brother's story in hopes that the bike will remind him that it is possible to achieve your dreams if we work for them. With the bike in good hands, all of my brother's worldly possessions have been donated/sold, and I hope that in some way we can pay forward the gifts that my brother received.
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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!
  

Community Awareness – Meetings and missions

• 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 4:30PM. 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:
  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
  
• "Homeless Singers on The Road to Success" is concerning men from the Wilmington St. shelter. It can be read at http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=5530076
• The Backyard Bible Club will be conducted on Sundays only from 5:00 PM- 6:30 PM through August 19th with set-up beginning 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.
• Same Kind of Different as Me is a book worth reading. For more information the website is http://www.samekindofdifferentasme.com/ The Urban Ministry will host a conference with Ron and Denver, Charlotte, NC November 13-15
  

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!