August 21, 2007
There are so many things to thank Jesus for this week!
Prayer and Praise!
The Lord has started a new mission on Sunday evenings. The leftover bag lunches from the Brown Bag Ministry are being taken to the Wilmington St shelter for those who didn’t make the lottery and are sleeping outside on pieces of cardboard. The two missionaries are bringing the physical but leaving the men with the Spiritual nourishment each week. If the Lord is asking you to serve with this team contact Susan at 787-3434.
Apex
-- Please pray for the addition of this medical mission. People are needed to join this new medical mission team Sunday the 26th in Apex. If the Lord is asking you to attend, please contact Susan at 787-3434. Glucometer strips are needed for the TheraSense "FreeStyle" glucometer.
-- Sunday was to be the last week of the Backyard Bible Club; however the Lord didn’t see it this way. A group of missionaries decided to continue the children’s Backyard Bible club. The Lord also brought two new missionaries and one speaks Spanish. Praise the Lord! The children attending are growing each week and so are the numbers of adults. With the growing number of adults an Adult Bible study will begin after Labor Day as well!!! Spanish Bibles are needed; maybe even a few bilingual Bibles. “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations.”
-- Praise the Lord for the builder who came Sunday to take measurements for the wheelchair ramp needed for the home with the son who is paralyzed. He will give a list of needed supplies and a date in September will be set to build this ramp. As a community let us demonstrate the love of Jesus to those in need. A donut cushion is still needed. The Lord heard your prayers and walked through the hoops of receiving Home Health care in a couple of days for this family. The man will receive nursing care as well as physical therapy. In the near future a plastic surgeon will be needed to close the open wound on his hip. Pray the assessment is soon.
-- The lamb who had a stroke several months ago joined the group at the mailboxes this week for fellowship and a meal. Thank You Jesus for Your love and open arms reaching out to this community.
-- Please continue to pray for the family who needs to update their green card. Paperwork needed to be completed, fees paid and a lawyer is needed. The family has only two weeks to get everything together.
-- One of the missionaries is looking for a job, a lamb told her of an opening where she works. Please pray for this opportunity.
-- Praise the Lord, families would rather prayer than the bag lunches. Continue to pray as the Lord uses the physical as His bait on His Spiritual Hook.
-- There is a Pastor’s meeting Wednesday for Apex/Cary. Contact Alice at 772-7050, if you are interested in attending.
Cary
-- Cary missionaries’ neighbor has been looking for a job. While at church they were told of a construction company needing a framer. Framing is his skill. He began work Monday. Praise God!!!!
-- As the school year ramps up volunteers are needed to pick-up donated food and Wednesdays and Fridays afternoons around 2 from an area caterer. Please contact Cindy at cboyce@nc.rr.com if this is something the Lord has asked you to do.
-- Thank You Jesus for the sisters in Christ who have offered to assist with the distribution of the physical manna for the Cary and Apex weekday missions.
-- Thank You Jesus for a former Cary lamb for finding him an apartment in the Apex area and bringing a friend to become a missionary at the Apex mission. Thank You Jesus for making another disciple.
-- Missionaries have been asking the Lord to stop the process of a former lamb to receive her driver’s license until she stops drinking. She has gone to classes, paid fees, and gone to court. The judge suspended her license for another 2 years because the judge felt she might still be drinking. Thank You Jesus!!!
-- A missionary were running errands with her son and said that looks like this lamb. Her son said it can’t be he looks too nice. They stopped the car and talked. Thank You Jesus for Your transforming power
-- Former lambs and present missionaries have their children visiting again this week. One of their children wants to move to lives with his parents. Please pray that if this is God’s will, the transition go smoothly.
-- Please continue to pray for the department manager who has gone to bring Jesus to his muslim family in Europe and northern Africa. As a missionary was praying for him the Lord took her to Exodus 23:20-22.
-- There is a Pastor’s meeting Wednesday for Apex/Cary. Contact Alice at 772-7050, if you are interested in attending.
Garner
-- A lamb who used to live close to the lamb who died this month has returned to the area with his family. He is no longer drinking or doing drugs, has a camper and is looking for work and a permanent home. He introduced his wife and two children to the group Thursday night and later shared his testimony about how his life is finally turning around, he is learning to pray more and to leave his life in God's hands.
-- A Garner lamb has completed 30 days with 30 AA meetings as part of living in an Oxford House. He is continuing to work daily, has paid off his credit card debt and is saving his money. He also continues to try to help those who remain in the woods, sometimes in small ways. On Thursday, a very drunk Hispanic man was standing near the group as they were about to pray. The lamb from the Oxford House gently led him into the circle, gave him a chair, showed him how to hold hands with those on his right and left, constantly reassuring him with words and gestures. He later made the man a plate of food and encouraged him to eat.
-- A new volunteer told the group Thursday that God had told her to go "behind Wendys" to do His will. She said the Lord also recently helped her to understand the plight of the homeless when her air conditioning went out during 100+ degree weather and she and her son didn't have money for repairs or for food. She has offered to help as a "prayer warrior" for all the needs. She also said her son has the gift of prophecy and told her that Church in the Woods will soon have a building. Praise God.
-- One of the lambs who usually steers clear of the Bible study had a strange request of a missionary: "Will you guys be there for my funeral when I die?" Of course, the answer was "Yes," but please keep this lamb in your prayers as he says he sometimes thinks he would be better off "ending it all" than putting up with life's turmoil.
-- The lamb who was stabbed several times is doing very well. He looked so good on Thursday and is off alcohol. Please pray for his continuing recovery, for work and a place to stay.
-- One lamb was in such a good mood. She gave a missionary a worship CD and a license plate that said GOD IS AWESOME.
-- At a church Bible study this week, the group was discussing how we use words, based on Matthew 12:34-37:You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned." A lamb who has been attending for many weeks said he is learning how important it is to use words to build people up, not tear them down. He said he knows in his spirit when he has hurt someone now and realizes he is grieving God when that happens.
-- A missionary was getting his car fixed at a shop. The first time he went to drop it off, nobody was there to write up the ticket, so he came back later and found a mechanic who had just started working there. The mechanic noticed the "Greg Laurie" sticker on the missionary's car (for an evangelist who came to Raleigh) and confided that he was trying to find a religion that "makes sense and isn't a bunch of hypocrites." The mechanic then said that last Christmas, instead of the usual present-giving and commercialized holiday, he and his 9-year-old daughter bought presents and food for some homeless families and spent Christmas Eve WITH them. He said he was so blessed by that! So the missionary handed him a card for Church in the Woods and said, "That is what we do, and that is what Jesus told us to do. Please come join us some time."
Later, as the man was paying for the repairs, the mechanic's boss said the new man was working out well, but seems to have some personal issues he needs to work out. Please pray that this connection helps bless all involved. Isn't it amazing how God puts people together!
-- Please pray as the church that has been providing showers on Saturdays is trying to decide whether to continue after some disturbance that have occurred in recent weeks.
-- Please pray for the lamb who is in jail for assaulting several people, including stabbing one lamb who was hospitalized.
-- A lamb who has been sober for over a year has gotten a power-washing job and is hoping to hear from WalMart soon about another job.
-- Another lamb is starting construction work late this week as he tries to get enough money to go home to Arkansas.
-- Thank you Jesus for the missionary who volunteered to fry 20 pounds of fish for the memorial service!!! His memorial will be Thursday, Aug 23rd at Ernest Myatt Presbyterian Church, 4926 Fayetteville Rd beginning at 7 PM.
-- Please contact Anne at 461- 9737 if the Lord is asking you to serve with the Garner medical mission team Saturday the 25th.
Missionary Testimonials
Missionaries were bringing the love of Christ to families in Apex Wednesday. The family who was receiving the manna asked how they could repay a missionary. He was a landscaper and wanted to landscape her yard for free as repayment. She smiled and asked if there was another he would return the gifts. He told her sure. She asked the family to start attending church. He asked for directions to her church. She told him her church didn’t have a Hispanic service and gave him a list of churches that do in the area. He began to cry, translating for his mother and she began to cry. They told her that first the neighborhood thought these missionaries were immigration, then they knew there was a catch because nothing was free, but not suggesting her own church there was no catch.
She explained to the family that Jesus loved them and wanted them to have a relationship with the entire family. This is the catch, read your Bible, pray, join a Christian fellowship family, and spread the love of Christ to everyone.
On Sunday the missionary spoke with the man who is having truck problems. When asked if they could pray for his truck, he said that God doesn’t want you to pray for material things. As a community of brother and sisters in Christ pray that this family sees the Lord’s hand with everything in their lives including the transmission of their truck. The truck will not go in reverse. What a reminder that the Lord doesn’t wants us to go backwards either. Jesus wants us to walk forward with Him hand in hand!
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
-- The Cary/Apex area pastors are invited to attend a Pastor’s meeting for Church in the Woods at the White Oak Baptist Church in Apex beginning at 11 AM Wednesday the 22nd . Please contact Alice McGee, 772-7050, if you are interested in attending.
-- Here is a very innovative approach to alleviate some of the homelessness social dilemma.
http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_07.08.04/city/homelessness.php
This might have been the program in Boston I had read about
http://www.hearth-home.org/news/pr/programs_aid_homeless.html
This one is a very cool idea to raise money easily even a nickel even a nickel at a time
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/03/05/daily3.html
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!
-- Thank you Jesus for the caterer who is donating the food for the volunteer appreciation dinner
Prayer and Praise!
The Lord has started a new mission on Sunday evenings. The leftover bag lunches from the Brown Bag Ministry are being taken to the Wilmington St shelter for those who didn’t make the lottery and are sleeping outside on pieces of cardboard. The two missionaries are bringing the physical but leaving the men with the Spiritual nourishment each week. If the Lord is asking you to serve with this team contact Susan at 787-3434.
Apex
-- Please pray for the addition of this medical mission. People are needed to join this new medical mission team Sunday the 26th in Apex. If the Lord is asking you to attend, please contact Susan at 787-3434. Glucometer strips are needed for the TheraSense "FreeStyle" glucometer.
-- Sunday was to be the last week of the Backyard Bible Club; however the Lord didn’t see it this way. A group of missionaries decided to continue the children’s Backyard Bible club. The Lord also brought two new missionaries and one speaks Spanish. Praise the Lord! The children attending are growing each week and so are the numbers of adults. With the growing number of adults an Adult Bible study will begin after Labor Day as well!!! Spanish Bibles are needed; maybe even a few bilingual Bibles. “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations.”
-- Praise the Lord for the builder who came Sunday to take measurements for the wheelchair ramp needed for the home with the son who is paralyzed. He will give a list of needed supplies and a date in September will be set to build this ramp. As a community let us demonstrate the love of Jesus to those in need. A donut cushion is still needed. The Lord heard your prayers and walked through the hoops of receiving Home Health care in a couple of days for this family. The man will receive nursing care as well as physical therapy. In the near future a plastic surgeon will be needed to close the open wound on his hip. Pray the assessment is soon.
-- The lamb who had a stroke several months ago joined the group at the mailboxes this week for fellowship and a meal. Thank You Jesus for Your love and open arms reaching out to this community.
-- Please continue to pray for the family who needs to update their green card. Paperwork needed to be completed, fees paid and a lawyer is needed. The family has only two weeks to get everything together.
-- One of the missionaries is looking for a job, a lamb told her of an opening where she works. Please pray for this opportunity.
-- Praise the Lord, families would rather prayer than the bag lunches. Continue to pray as the Lord uses the physical as His bait on His Spiritual Hook.
-- There is a Pastor’s meeting Wednesday for Apex/Cary. Contact Alice at 772-7050, if you are interested in attending.
Cary
-- Cary missionaries’ neighbor has been looking for a job. While at church they were told of a construction company needing a framer. Framing is his skill. He began work Monday. Praise God!!!!
-- As the school year ramps up volunteers are needed to pick-up donated food and Wednesdays and Fridays afternoons around 2 from an area caterer. Please contact Cindy at cboyce@nc.rr.com if this is something the Lord has asked you to do.
-- Thank You Jesus for the sisters in Christ who have offered to assist with the distribution of the physical manna for the Cary and Apex weekday missions.
-- Thank You Jesus for a former Cary lamb for finding him an apartment in the Apex area and bringing a friend to become a missionary at the Apex mission. Thank You Jesus for making another disciple.
-- Missionaries have been asking the Lord to stop the process of a former lamb to receive her driver’s license until she stops drinking. She has gone to classes, paid fees, and gone to court. The judge suspended her license for another 2 years because the judge felt she might still be drinking. Thank You Jesus!!!
-- A missionary were running errands with her son and said that looks like this lamb. Her son said it can’t be he looks too nice. They stopped the car and talked. Thank You Jesus for Your transforming power
-- Former lambs and present missionaries have their children visiting again this week. One of their children wants to move to lives with his parents. Please pray that if this is God’s will, the transition go smoothly.
-- Please continue to pray for the department manager who has gone to bring Jesus to his muslim family in Europe and northern Africa. As a missionary was praying for him the Lord took her to Exodus 23:20-22.
-- There is a Pastor’s meeting Wednesday for Apex/Cary. Contact Alice at 772-7050, if you are interested in attending.
Garner
-- A lamb who used to live close to the lamb who died this month has returned to the area with his family. He is no longer drinking or doing drugs, has a camper and is looking for work and a permanent home. He introduced his wife and two children to the group Thursday night and later shared his testimony about how his life is finally turning around, he is learning to pray more and to leave his life in God's hands.
-- A Garner lamb has completed 30 days with 30 AA meetings as part of living in an Oxford House. He is continuing to work daily, has paid off his credit card debt and is saving his money. He also continues to try to help those who remain in the woods, sometimes in small ways. On Thursday, a very drunk Hispanic man was standing near the group as they were about to pray. The lamb from the Oxford House gently led him into the circle, gave him a chair, showed him how to hold hands with those on his right and left, constantly reassuring him with words and gestures. He later made the man a plate of food and encouraged him to eat.
-- A new volunteer told the group Thursday that God had told her to go "behind Wendys" to do His will. She said the Lord also recently helped her to understand the plight of the homeless when her air conditioning went out during 100+ degree weather and she and her son didn't have money for repairs or for food. She has offered to help as a "prayer warrior" for all the needs. She also said her son has the gift of prophecy and told her that Church in the Woods will soon have a building. Praise God.
-- One of the lambs who usually steers clear of the Bible study had a strange request of a missionary: "Will you guys be there for my funeral when I die?" Of course, the answer was "Yes," but please keep this lamb in your prayers as he says he sometimes thinks he would be better off "ending it all" than putting up with life's turmoil.
-- The lamb who was stabbed several times is doing very well. He looked so good on Thursday and is off alcohol. Please pray for his continuing recovery, for work and a place to stay.
-- One lamb was in such a good mood. She gave a missionary a worship CD and a license plate that said GOD IS AWESOME.
-- At a church Bible study this week, the group was discussing how we use words, based on Matthew 12:34-37:You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned." A lamb who has been attending for many weeks said he is learning how important it is to use words to build people up, not tear them down. He said he knows in his spirit when he has hurt someone now and realizes he is grieving God when that happens.
-- A missionary was getting his car fixed at a shop. The first time he went to drop it off, nobody was there to write up the ticket, so he came back later and found a mechanic who had just started working there. The mechanic noticed the "Greg Laurie" sticker on the missionary's car (for an evangelist who came to Raleigh) and confided that he was trying to find a religion that "makes sense and isn't a bunch of hypocrites." The mechanic then said that last Christmas, instead of the usual present-giving and commercialized holiday, he and his 9-year-old daughter bought presents and food for some homeless families and spent Christmas Eve WITH them. He said he was so blessed by that! So the missionary handed him a card for Church in the Woods and said, "That is what we do, and that is what Jesus told us to do. Please come join us some time."
Later, as the man was paying for the repairs, the mechanic's boss said the new man was working out well, but seems to have some personal issues he needs to work out. Please pray that this connection helps bless all involved. Isn't it amazing how God puts people together!
-- Please pray as the church that has been providing showers on Saturdays is trying to decide whether to continue after some disturbance that have occurred in recent weeks.
-- Please pray for the lamb who is in jail for assaulting several people, including stabbing one lamb who was hospitalized.
-- A lamb who has been sober for over a year has gotten a power-washing job and is hoping to hear from WalMart soon about another job.
-- Another lamb is starting construction work late this week as he tries to get enough money to go home to Arkansas.
-- Thank you Jesus for the missionary who volunteered to fry 20 pounds of fish for the memorial service!!! His memorial will be Thursday, Aug 23rd at Ernest Myatt Presbyterian Church, 4926 Fayetteville Rd beginning at 7 PM.
-- Please contact Anne at 461- 9737 if the Lord is asking you to serve with the Garner medical mission team Saturday the 25th.
Missionary Testimonials
Missionaries were bringing the love of Christ to families in Apex Wednesday. The family who was receiving the manna asked how they could repay a missionary. He was a landscaper and wanted to landscape her yard for free as repayment. She smiled and asked if there was another he would return the gifts. He told her sure. She asked the family to start attending church. He asked for directions to her church. She told him her church didn’t have a Hispanic service and gave him a list of churches that do in the area. He began to cry, translating for his mother and she began to cry. They told her that first the neighborhood thought these missionaries were immigration, then they knew there was a catch because nothing was free, but not suggesting her own church there was no catch.
She explained to the family that Jesus loved them and wanted them to have a relationship with the entire family. This is the catch, read your Bible, pray, join a Christian fellowship family, and spread the love of Christ to everyone.
On Sunday the missionary spoke with the man who is having truck problems. When asked if they could pray for his truck, he said that God doesn’t want you to pray for material things. As a community of brother and sisters in Christ pray that this family sees the Lord’s hand with everything in their lives including the transmission of their truck. The truck will not go in reverse. What a reminder that the Lord doesn’t wants us to go backwards either. Jesus wants us to walk forward with Him hand in hand!
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
-- The Cary/Apex area pastors are invited to attend a Pastor’s meeting for Church in the Woods at the White Oak Baptist Church in Apex beginning at 11 AM Wednesday the 22nd . Please contact Alice McGee, 772-7050, if you are interested in attending.
-- Here is a very innovative approach to alleviate some of the homelessness social dilemma.
http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_07.08.04/city/homelessness.php
This might have been the program in Boston I had read about
http://www.hearth-home.org/news/pr/programs_aid_homeless.html
This one is a very cool idea to raise money easily even a nickel even a nickel at a time
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/03/05/daily3.html
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!
-- Thank you Jesus for the caterer who is donating the food for the volunteer appreciation dinner
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