September 28, 2007

Thank you Jesus for all Your blessings we are allowed to witness each week. Thank you also for Your faithfulness.

Prayer and Praise!
Cary and Apex

• Please pray for the next 4 days: Sunday immigration came to the Apex mission and deported 17 people including a 68 year old grandmother and the mother of a 2 and ½ week old infant. Nine children, ages 14 years old to 2 weeks, were left without parents due to their US citizenship. The Body of Christ joined together raising funds to drive the children to Mexico to be reunited with their families. The Body of Christ also gathered car items for the children’s 30-plus hour car ride to Brownsville, TX, including food, drinks, books, car seats, and comforting stuffed animals. The parents were taken by authorities at night leaving the children with neighbors. The Lord gave missionaries flashlights a few months ago that were hidden by other donated material. As the garage has been emptied little by little each week, the flashlights were found. Asking the Lord for a use for these flashlights, the coordinator told the missionaries the children could use a flashlight for the car ride to ease their fears. And the Lord with His perfect timing provided. These children leave tonight around 5 PM. Please pray for the next 4 days for their safety, the driver’s sanity, and families ready to welcome these children home. They should be back in Mexico Monday or Tuesday.
• Please join us in Praising the Lord for the additional missionaries He has brought for His Harvest
• A neighbor is planning to put up posters in the neighbor to further advertise the Backyard Bible Club. For more information concerning the Backyard Bible Club please contact Stacy Boxell at stacy@net-by-design.com
• Praise You Jesus for Your mighty provisions! Members at Hope Community Church gave the Apex mission vouchers for the M25 food drop this week. People with the vouchers are able to receive a large box of groceries on Saturday.
• Praise God for His perfect timing and the obedience of His harvesters. Five out of 7 days per week have been claimed for picking up from the newest store this week. Please pray that the store will not only donate items from the bakery but also from their deli.
• At one of the Cary missions a woman has serious health challenges. She has a blood clot in her lung. Please pray for her recovery and healing. She and her husband also need better jobs.
• A skilled craftsman’s is asking for prayer for a job. He too is from one of the Cary missions.
• As missionary prayed about where to deliver pizzas this week. The Lord led them to the Cary Habitat for Humanity area. A man wanted prayer for the healing of his heart from the passing of his auntie. A grandmother wanted prayer as she and her husband are caregivers for their paraplegic son and grandchildren. She also has arthritis and cares for her son’s trach and other medical needs. Please for her son’s healing and strength. A woman wanted prayer for her children, some who have walked away from the Lord and chosen a path of substance abuse. Pray for a woman who has lived on the street her entire life and seen much loss of life. Pray for her loneliness. Pray for a woman whose mother recently died and has turned to substances instead of Jesus. A woman when asked for her prayer requested wanted to pray for children in America. She lives near a school and was reminded to be the Light of Jesus to the children at that school. She told missionaries she would also witness to her friend that Jesus is her mighty provider. He blessed her with a pizza. Praise God!
• A Cary missionary’s aunt passed away yesterday. Please keep her and her family in your prayers as she travels to Durham to be with her family.
• Please pray for a missionary’s mother whose melanoma has returned.
• Please pray for a Backyard Bible Club’s eye sight. Her glaucoma is accelerating.
• Please pray for the caterer who donates much food. His still doesn’t have answers to his health issues.
• Please keep the Brown Bag ministry director in your prayers. She is suffering from possible kidney stones. She undergoes further testing Tuesday.
• The Restoring Hope Ministry is asking for prayer. The ministry has been serving Jesus through a homeless couple. A builder in the church has become interested in the couple. He is prayerfully considering donating a home in North Raleigh to the Restoring Hope ministry to be used as transitional housing for the Lord’s lambs.
• Please keep in prayer the new Apex and Cary missions.
  
  Garner
  
• Please keep a missionary in prayer as she has further testing for her gall stones today.
• A lamb was told that if she continued to abuse substances she would be in an assisted living home before she reached the age of 50. This news has frightened her enough that she has been substance free for three weeks. We Praise You Jesus!
• A couple that has moved into an apartment is becoming increasingly self-reliant. The man is working regularly for the first time in many years. Where once he would always ask someone else to provide transportation, now he says, “We will just take the bus.”
• A missionary who helped this couple many times is in a Chapel Hill hospital after severe injuries from a motorcycle accident. Please keep him and his wife in your prayers.
• Continue to keep a Sunday Garner missionary’s family in your prayers. His father is not improving.
• Thank you Jesus for answering so many prayers and finding shelter for the woman who had been thrown out of her apartment with a 3-month-old baby. Thank you for providing someone to guide her through the turmoil and for even having him pray for her!
• A Hispanic lamb is in jail in Wake County not knowing whether he will be returned to Florida for some old charges or whether he will be released. If you feel called, please send them to:
  Public Safety Center
  Jamie Hernandez Sanchez
  P.O. Box 2419
  Raleigh, NC 27602
  
  Missionary Testimonials
  
  A missionary was asked this week whether God prefers that our work for His lost be public or private. The missionary received the answer when he offered lunch to a homeless man and was at first turned down.
  
  Ten minutes later, the lamb approached the missionary inside a fast-food restaurant (just as he had gotten to the front of a long line).and said in a voice loud enough to be heard throughout the dining area, “I must have been crazy. Of COURSE you can buy me lunch.”
  
  This lamb also “accidentally” asked the wrong man (dressed like the missionary) to buy him lunch, much to his consternation. And as the two were eating, a teen-ager approached the lamb and admonished him for not showing up when his mom had offered to take him to a drug rehab facility. The missionary suggested a different facility that allows medication during withdrawal.
  
  Then, as the missionary was leaving, he found a New Testament in his car and decided to give it to the lamb. When he re-entered the restaurant, the lamb was gone. But a man in the back corner waved to the missionary, pointed and said, “He’s in the bathroom.”
  
  God had made everyone in that restaurant aware of the mercies being shown this lamb – and answered the missionary’s question about whether those mercies should be public!
  
  Community Awareness – Meetings and missions
  
  -- Project Connect is in need of Volunteers October 25th from 10 Am to 4 PM at Moore Square. This includes services for the homeless for medical, eye, and dental needs; clothing; blankets; food; transportation information; and a PRAYER TENT!!!! Praise God! Contact Alice McGee at churchinthewoods@earthlink.net if you are interested.
  
  -- CitW Medical missions will now be hosting two medical missions per month. The CitW medical mission has two new glucometers, Ascensia contour and Ascensia Breeze. Both need testing strips.
  If you are able to donate the strips, please contact Anne Willet at 461- 9737 or via email at willskai@bellsouth.net
  The third type of glucometer CitW has is a TheraSense "FreeStyle", if you have strips to donate, please contact Susan Heineman at 787-3434 or via email at susaneh@bellsouth.net
  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:
  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:
  October 7th
  November 4th
  December 2nd
  
  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 Lord for the laundermat that continues to hold the homeless laundry account.
  -- 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!

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Independent Weekly 9/25/07

By PATRICK O'NEILL In late July, Otto Mintz, sick with congestive heart failure, left his homeless encampment behind the Garner K-Mart for the last time, and took the CAT bus to Wake Med. On Aug. 1, Otto died. Although many of the homeless die alone, and without mention on the obituary page, such was not the case for Otto, a guitar playing man with a ready smile who made lots of friends during his years living in the woods near one of Garner's busiest shopping districts. Cindy and Al Boyce, who are part of the Church in the Woods ministry, which Otto sometimes attended, made sure Otto's obituary and picture were published in the News &Observer. Along with Church in the Woods founder, Alice McGee, and others, a memorial service was planned for Otto at the Ernest T. Myatt Presbyterian Church. "They need to know that homeless people are loved too," Cindy Boyce said. At the Aug. 23 service, which would have been Otto's 57th birthday, an eclectic group of people began to arrive. Those who knew Otto as the guy who held a sign at the corner of Old Stage and Fayetteville roads, volunteers with the homeless, and the homeless themselves, many of whom also lived in the woods in tents and makeshift hovels, filed into the church. This would prove to be no ordinary church service in memory of a man who was twice hospitalized after being hit by cars. McGee said people "truly grow" when they get to know those who are different from themselves. "They have lived things that we haven't lived." David Roberts, a man who brings food, sleeping bags and other essentials to those living in the woods, read his remarks. While preparing his comments, Roberts said Jesus "imaged Otto's joyous face from heaven above into my mind's eye. Then I cried tears of joy. Then Otto spoke to me and said, 'I love you.' And still crying I responded, 'I love you too Otto.' Now isn't it fulfilling to know that Otto is enjoying heaven's peace and heaven's bliss? ... I must say Otto was a kind and generous man." In the rear of the church, a man said, "God Bless Otto. God Bless Otto. God Bless Otto." Several times during the service, Otto's friend from the woods, Melanie Lewallen, was moved to stand up and pray or shout words of praise about Otto. "My dog Delilah - she will chew anybody up, she don't care - she was born on Otto's bed," Lewallen yelled. "Now I've had her seven years. Hallelujah." Mike Montague, another person who ministers to the folks in the encampment, said he considered Otto a friend. "Just meet Otto one time and you knew he was a kind person; he had a good soul; he had a good heart. You could just tell. I'm going to miss him." Following the service, the mourners enjoyed a meal of fish, potatoes, other vegetables, bread and pie. Otto Mintz is survived by a son, Jeffrey Mintz; brothers Tim and Dennis Mintz and sisters, Sharon Mintz and Karen Ramsey. He was buried beside his parents in Port Huron, MI.

Thank You Jesus for all Your blessings we are allowed to witness each week. Thank You also for Your faithfulness.

Prayer and Praise!
Apex and Cary

• Missionaries went house to house bringing prayer, the Love of Christ and bagged lunches. This week one missionary was so exhausted; she had asked the Lord to give her strength. The strength she received came from the families at the mission. One family told her that they didn’t need a bag this week. They had returned to church for the first time in many years! Thank you Jesus!!! Another man rededicated his life to Christ, attended church with his estranged wife and children. Praise you Jesus! A third family told missionaries they were able to see Jesus as the missionaries served their paralyzed brother. Their mother was angry with God for allowing her son to be hit by a car. She has come back to Jesus inviting her son to join her on Christ’s path. Part of this path included going home to Mexico. After much prayer, she and her son decided to accept the insurance settlement and go home to be near more extended family. It is easier for her to transport her son. She has more family to stay with him if she needs to go to the store. She also has others to stay with him when she is tired. Please keep them in your prayers as her son needs much medical attention. Pray for their continued walk with Christ. Praise God for 6 people asking Jesus back into their lives!!!! Please pray for all these people as they confess, repent, put on the new clothes of Jesus, and grow in Christ.
• So many children attended the Backyard Bible Club this week. They enjoy Bible stories, crafts, pizza and donuts. What a blessing to witness! For more information concerning the Backyard Bible Club please contact Stacy Boxell at stacy@net-by-design.com
• The veterinarian attended the mission this week and was called home. She will attend another week to give more information concerning neutering pets.
• Praise God for another opportunity for God’s children to be fed, both physically and Spiritually. Missionaries met with a church homegroup this week. Disciples are eager to serve Jesus possibly through CitW. One is checking where she works about receiving food from her grocery store. Another would like to add a mission in either Cary or Apex on a Monday and/or Tuesday. Please pray for the Lord to indicate where He would like a new mission to begin. Thank Jesus for His harvest hands.
• Please keep the Brown Bag ministry director in your prayers. She is suffering from possible kidney stones.
• The Restoring Hope Ministry is asking for prayer. The ministry has been serving Jesus through a homeless couple. A builder in the church has become interested in the couple. He is prayerfully considering donating a home in North Raleigh to the Restoring Hope ministry to be used as transitional housing for the Lord’s lambs.
• Please keep in pray the new Apex mission.
• Thank you for your prayers for the Cary/Apex missionary. She had a small intestine biopsy revealing she is positive for Celiac Spruce. With proper dietary adjustments her ferrintin anemia should be corrected within weeks. Praise God!
• The Downtown friends and Bread of Life ministries rejoiced in their praise report that many received Christ’s Salvation September 15th at Moore Square during the Hot Dog wagon feeding. Thank you Jesus!
  
  Garner
  
• A lamb’s dog died recently when it was hit by a car. Please keep him in prayer as he lost his other dog only a few months ago.
• Praise God that some of the Lord’s lambs are attending a Hispanic church regularly. One lamb who doesn’t speak much Spanish said, “I don’t understand much, but I can feel the Spirit there.”
• Please keep a lamb in prayer who has lost his job and is back on the streets.
• Praise God that a lamb is stepping up to help a woman and her 3-month-old child find a place after being thrown out by her husband. He is gathering phone numbers of resources where the woman might be placed and will let her stay at his camp until something is found. He is very frustrated at how slowly the system works even in an emergency such as this, so keep him and the woman and child in your prayers.
• Another lamb who has been meeting weekly with a missionary is frustrated at his own attempts to help a woman with three children. One obstacle is the woman has only limited phone service and cannot be easily contacted. She suffered injuries in a car accident and has been unable to work. The family may lose their apartment before she receives money from an insurance settlement. Please keep them in prayer.
• A Hispanic lamb is in jail in Wake County not knowing whether he will be returned to Florida for some old charges or whether he will be released. He would love to receive letters or cards of encouragement. If you feel called, please send them to:
  Public Safety Center
  Jamie Hernandez Sanchez
  P.O. Box 2419
  Raleigh, NC 27602
• Continue to keep a Sunday Garner missionary’s family in your prayers. His father is not improving.
  
  Missionary Testimonials
  
  A lamb who has been working a construction job has been struggling with his old addictions. Not long ago, he almost quit the job after getting drunk, using drugs and losing his company cell phone.
  
  Praise God his employer, with prayerful counseling from a missionary, took the man back and offered him a raise, showing the grace of God when things seemed hopeless.
  
  Now this employer is traveling in Europe and has given this lamb even more responsibility to manage jobs while he is away.
  
  Please pray these continued blessings open this lamb’s heart to God’s love and help him to turn completely to the Lord as the source of all his needs.
  
  Community Awareness – Meetings and missions
  
  -- CitW is being recognized by ATC and Southlight along with many other faith-based organizations that serve those with addictions September 27th.
  
  -- Project Connect is in need of Volunteers October 25th from 10 Am to 4 PM at Moore Square. This includes services for the homeless for medical, eye, and dental needs; clothing; blankets; food; transportation information; and a PRAYER TENT!!!! Praise God! Contact Alice McGee at churchinthewoods@earthlink.net if you are interested.
  
  -- CitW Medical missions will now be hosting two medical missions per month. The CitW medical mission has two new glucometers, Ascensia contour and Ascensia Breeze. Both need testing strips.
  If you are able to donate the strips, please contact Anne Willet at 461- 9737 or via email at willskai@bellsouth.net
  The third type of glucometer CitW has is a TheraSense "FreeStyle", if you have strips to donate, please contact Susan Heineman at 787-3434 or via email at susaneh@bellsouth.net
  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:
  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:
  October 7th
  November 4th
  December 2nd
  
  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!
  

There are so many things to thank Jesus for this week!

Prayer and Praise!
Apex

• The children were so blessed by the Backyard Bible Club returning this week. Crafts were provided for the children as well as Bible teaching. For more information concerning the Backyard Bible Club please contact Stacy Boxell at stacy@net-by-design.com
• The lamb who is paralyzed is in need of a Wound VAC. It is an expensive piece of equipment. If anyone knows where one can be borrowed please contact Dr. Hartye at jhartye@whsi.org .
• The wheelchair ramp construction team is planning to construct the ramp September 22nd. Ray Jackson is the contact person at 524-3533. Praise God!
• The veterinarian was able to give rabies vaccinations Sunday at a discounted price. Thank you Jesus for her donation of time and vaccinations. She is returning this week with information concerning neutering pets and general pet health. The veterinary team was blessed to have one of the neighborhood children serve as a translator for the mission. The Lord walks before us and is so faithful!
• In the Sunday prayer circle one lamb asked for prayer for her father on his deathbed due to complications of diabetes. The father and family were lifted in prayer. Wednesday, missionaries were told the father is doing so well; he is to be released from the hospital this week. God is so good. Thank you Jesus for being the ultimate healer!
• One of the lambs used CitW missionaries as a reference to receive assistance from Western Wake Crisis center. Thank you Jesus for Your mighty Body of Christ!
• We are thanking the Lord for His mighty provisions of missionaries this week through the Body of Christ! Several want to serve with the Backyard Bible Club, others want to serve with the adults going door-to-door, some want to prayer with individuals, and even others want to serve through a pet ministry.
• An area chiropractic office contact missionaries this week wanting to know how to serve Jesus through CitW. They plan to conduct two drives; one for winter clothing and blankets for the homeless in Wake County in October and a second for non-perishable food drive for the low income areas in Cary and Apex in November.
• A new humanitarian aide mission is being started in Apex on Thursdays and possibly Saturdays. We are thanking the Lord for the missionary from the Brown Bag ministry who has started this.
• We are thanking the Lord for the area church that is organizing a non-perishable food drive with their homeschool co-op this month.
• We are thanking the Lord for the event who donated the food to feed the Apex mission and the Garner Sunday mission.
  

Cary

• The new mission in Cary was served with humanitarian aide twice this week. The Lord has provided clothing and food for several in a low income area. We are thanking the Lord for the former lambs who are now serving Jesus knowing Jesus provided for them so faithfully.
• We are thanking the Lord for the Brown Bag missionary who has stepped forward to serve so many of those in Cary on Thursdays.
• We are thanking the Lord for His abundance of food. An area caterer provides the meal the 4th Saturday of each month for 200 people at Moore Square. His business has been slow during the summer. An area event provided several trays of fried chicken which have been frozen and given to him to offset the cost of the meal this month. The Lord goes before each of us.
• Keep a Cary/Apex missionary in your prayers as she is undergoing testing for a cause to severe anemia.
  

-- Please continue to pray for the department manager who has gone to bring Jesus to his muslim family in Europe and northern Africa. Please continue to pray Exodus 23:20-22 as he visits friends and family.

-- As the school year ramps up volunteers are needed to pick-up donated food and Wednesdays 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.

Garner

• Please keep a Garner missionary in your prayers as she has undergone outpatient surgery discovering a gastric ulcer, gall bladder stones, kidney/bladder infection, and possible celiac disease.
• Several of the Garner lambs have called the Garner missionary to let her know they are praying and concerned.
• A Garner church is beginning a low income mission. Please keep them in your prayers as they reach out to the community. Please ask that the Lord provide any needed translators and allow the lambs to see the trust and love of Jesus through each of these missionaries.
• We are thanking the Lord for golf tournament leftovers that were donated and delivered to a Garner missionary who feeds the Sunday Moore Square mission.
• Continue to keep a Sunday Garner missionary’s family in your prayers. His father is not improving.
• With the sun going down earlier and earlier, the Thursday Bible study raced through Acts 13. One of the youngest missionaries did most of the reading. Everyone marveled at how Paul was able to summarize the Old Testament in just a few paragraphs and how Jesus fulfilled God’s entire plan for Jews and Gentiles.
• Please continue to pray for the three lambs who have been trying to work and live together, that they may weather temptations to return to old activities and addictions.
• A missionary has been meeting a couple of times a month with a man he met at alcohol rehab. This man once was heavily involved in Christian outreach at a local university, but now is mainly concerned with being just responsible enough to continue drinking and partying without losing his job. This lamb recently asked the missionary to find help for a woman he knows who has four children and is facing eviction from their apartment. Please pray that a support circle is created for them and that the lamb begins to see that helping others may be more fulfilling than feeding his own addictions.

Missionary Testimonials

A missionary was on the way to work last week and prayed during the commute: “God, please use me today to bless someone.”

In less than a minute, the missionary saw a man with a gasoline can walking along a busy highway. He picked up the man, drove him to a gas station and back to his car, telling him how this was an answer to his prayer to God.

The man, from Korea, listened attentively, then confessed that he had been very angry with God for not finding him a job when he and his family needed money.

He told the missionary, “Thank you for reminding me that God is not here to serve us. We are here to serve God.”

Community Awareness – Meetings and missions

-- CitW is being recognized by ATC and Southlight along with many other organizations that serve those with addictions.

-- CitW Medical missions will now be hosting two medical missions per month. The CitW medical mission has two new glucometers, Ascensia contour and Ascensia Breeze. Both need testing strips.
If you are able to donate the strips, please contact Anne Willet at 461- 9737 or via email at willskai@bellsouth.net
The third type of glucometer CitW has is a TheraSense "FreeStyle", if you have strips to donate, please contact Susan Heineman at 787-3434 or via email at susaneh@bellsouth.net
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:
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:
October 7th
November 4th
December 2nd

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!
--- We thank the Lord for those who are donating the funds and time to build the wheelchair ramp.

September 3, 2007

There are so many things to thank Jesus for this week!

Prayer and Praise!
Apex

• So many children came this week. They were blessed with prayer and a hot meal.
• The number of adults attending the prayer session increased this week. They are more trusting.
• The wheelchair ramp is in need of carpenters. Please contact Ray at 524-3533 if you would like to serve the Lord in this manner.
• The Lord provided more clothing and linens this week
• One of the Brown Bag ministry missionaries served this week with the Wednesday mission. Praise the Lord!
• Saturday the missionary who usually picks up the food was on vacation. The food was picked-up and donated to the Brown Bag ministry. The ministry needed extra sandwiches and desserts. They were also serving the hot meal for Moore Square and needed more salad. The Lord provided all of it. Thank you Jesus!
• The Brown Bag ministry also provides 60 bags for the Apex mission. A missionary’s exterminator company held its annual golf tournament and promised to bring the leftover sandwiches. There were 60! God is so amazing with every detail!
• Next week a veterinarian is hosting a rabies clinic. Praise the Lord for His mighty provisions.
  

Cary

• Praise the Lord for the Monday Cary Missionary’s father-in-law. What a testimony of answered prayer!
  My father in law’s surgery could not have gone better. Actually they released him early because he has 0 post op pain which according to the doctor he is the only orthopedic surgery patient they have EVER worked on that had no pain. The doctors and nurses are completely baffled !!!
  Also this is a great witness to my mother in law who is asking questions about what we believe as she thinks it's a miracle. Thanks so much for your prayers as I fully believe that this would not have happened if people did not step up and simply take the Lord at his word!!!
• A missionary’s mother breezed through her radiation treatment this week and her sister’s CT scan was perfect. God is so faithful!
• A new mission has started for children in Cary. The lambs who have moved into an apartment complex have started feeding and clothing the children in the area with donated items. One family has not had power in over a month. The Lord has provided candles for them to have light and food. Praise God! What a witness of how Jesus has changed lives!
• Thank you Jesus for the Brown Bag missionary who answered the Lord’s calling to serve the Thursday Cary mission.
• This morning four missionaries were able to serve the Cary mission. The Lord provided an abundance of food, physically and spiritually. Thank you Jesus!
  -- 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.
  
  -- -- 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.
  
  Garner
  
• Please keep in your prayers one of the Sunday morning missionaries and his family. His father suffers from Alzheimer’s. The family was called to the hospital due to the father having seizures. He has gone downhill quickly.
• The lamb in WV is recovering nicely from his surgery last week. The Lord is so faithful!
• One lamb was released from prison this week. She called missionaries asking that they give her the same type of assistance as they had others. She was told she needed a relationship with Jesus and He is the provider. She is praying she has a job so she doesn’t have so much free time. Please also pray that she allows someone to assist her with financial planning, so the money is used in a manner that glorifies Jesus!
• Please keep one lamb in your prayers as he is looking for an apartment. It isn’t possible for a felon to find an apartment, but Lord makes all things possible.
• As the days grow shorter please pray for a building to host the Garner Thursday night mission. In three weeks the Thursday evening mission will begin in darkness. Some missionaries have considered moving it to earlier in the day.
• After three and a half years, the Lord has asked the Boyce family to step away from the Thursday mission but continue with the Sunday Garner mission. Cindy will continue writing notes of encouragement and scripture. The missionary teams will continue to provide transportation to church and serving a hot lunch afterwards. This will be their last Thursday. During Al’s lunch hour, he plans to take a few to lunch each week and host a Bible study at the nearby Wendy’s.
• Please keep these lambs in your prayers. Their concerns are whether they are being abandoned by someone again. They were reassured that they are always welcome to come to church each week, but please keep them in your prayers.
• There is a pet ministry for the homeless of Wake County. If someone would like to make donations to offset the cost of veterinarian bills, donations can be sent to Shirley at PO Box 1468, Fuquay, NC 27526 or you can donate pet food and call her at 210-3096.
  
  -- Please keep a homeless family in your prayers as they find jobs and an apartment so they can enroll their children in school.
  -- Another Garner lamb is working and has moved into a camper on the property where he works. He has given his campsite to another lamb to use.
  
  
  Missionary Testimonials
  
  As missionaries were picking up food from a grocery store, a man stopped, stared, started walking again then came back to ask questions.
  
  He was amazed to see missionaries bagging groceries individually with notes to each lamb. He said he sometimes feels led to make sandwiches and deliver them to homeless men and women he sees.
  
  “I thought THAT was a lot of work,” he said. “But you put me to shame.”
  
  The man assumed that the missionaries must be pastors or leaders of a local church and was even more amazed when he was told, “We are just worker bees for Jesus.”
  
  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:
  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:
  October 7th
  November 4th
  December 2nd
  
  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!
  -- A Raleigh company is offering free computer training starting in September.
  FREE COMPUTER TRAININGOPEN TO THE PUBLIC OF THE TRIANGLE AND SURROUNDING AREASBy IFCTCC

Volunteers @ Wade Edwards Learning Lab (WELL) in Raleigh

Fall Session is approximately 9 weeks (No Winter Session), (Spring Session To Be Announced), (no Summer Session)

Tuesday Sep 11 - Nov 6

Wednesday Sep 12 - Nov 7

Thursday Sep 13 - Nov 8

Tues 6PM-8PM (WORD-BASIC WORD PROCESSING OR WEB DESIGN-BASIC WEBSITE CREATION

Wed 6PM-7PM WINDOWS-BASIC BASIC COMPUTER INTRO and/or

Wed 7PM-8PM POWERPOINT-BASIC PRESENTATIONSOR

Wed 6PM-8PM EXCEL-BASIC SPREADSHEETS

Thurs 6PM-8PM ACCESS-BASIC DATABASES(Prerequisite note: for Access, you must have previously completed Excel)

(Optional Self Practice Times Sunday-Friday 5PM-10PM)

You may take any classes that you can fit into the above schedule.The International Free Computer Training and Charitable Center (IFCTCC)Our non-profit mission is to train and educate those interestedin enhancing computer skills and job marketability!

Please self-register as soon as possible by email (if possible) or (if no email: by phone)Please include your first name, last name, email, evening phone number, and classes desired.

Joe Mabiala email: jmabiala2001@yahoo.comor

Jim Russell email: russelljrr@aol.comor (if no email) please leave a phone message at 919-550-1773

All Classes: Please attend our brief optional Orientation on Monday, September 10, 2007 (anytime 6pm-8pm)

Volunteer Teachers are provided by IFCTCCClassrooms and support staff provided by the non-profit Wade Edwards Foundation at theWade Edwards Learning Lab (WELL)

714 Saint Mary's StreetRaleigh, NC 27605 (Near the Intersection of Peace Street) (Across from Broughton High School)

From Hillsborough Street or Peace StreetFrom East Heading West: Turn Right (North) onto Saint Mary's Street

From West heading East: Turn Left (North) onto Saint Mary's Street

From Glenwood Avenue or Wade AvenueFrom East Heading West: Turn Left (South) onto Saint Mary's Street

From West heading East: Turn Right (South) onto Saint Mary's Street