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.