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!