We are working with 20 Points of Light partner, 1027 Church, to offer a soccer clinic to kids at the Atlanta Boys and Girls Club!

Dates

June 14, 15, 16

July 19, 20, 21

Basic Schedule

9 am – Arrive and Set-Up in Atlanta

9:15 – Prayer

9:30 – Camp Starts – Session 1

9:50 – First Water Break

10:00 – Session 2

10:20 – Second Water Break

10:30 – Session 3

10:50 – Water Break

11:00 – 1 or 2 Games

11:20 – Camp Rap Up for the Day

11:300 – Dismiss

Supplies for Soccer Clinic:

Soccer Gear (balls, cones, etc.)

Dixie Water Cups 8 oz 300-500 a day

Gatorade for Team Coolers

50-100 Capri Sun drinks for each day the departing snack

50-100 individual chip bags for departing snack

50-100 individual connect bags (simple brown lunch bags)

Last Day of Camp Frozen Kool-Aid Pops

This is a perfect opportunity for individuals, LifeGroups or families!  No soccer skills required – just showing love and care to these kids!

Let us know how you can help!  We need supplies!  We need you!

Mark your calendars and join us the 3rd Wednesdays in June & July at 10:00am as we prayer walk in our community.

(June 15 / July 20) More details coming soon.

Dear Family and Friends,

We hope this update finds you and others around you, standing firm in Christ in the midst of life’s spiritual, emotional, & physical storms that “..rain on the just and the unjust..”(Matthew 5:45). In these past weeks we have seen devastating damage from the storms in our community and beyond! Some have lost everything! At the same time, we have seen an overwhelming response from individuals wanting to help; some storm survivors themselves!

In addition to all this, we have heard many stories of Divine intervention. In all that has occurred, may we be reminded that when these storms come, the foundation we have makes all the difference! If we are built upon the rock, representing the Savior and His Word, we will stand! However, if we are built upon the sand, representing Satan and this World, we will fall. (Matthew 7:24-29)

In April:

• Bounty of Hope Food Pantry provided many boxes/bags of food & supplies to our community.
• One Town/One Goal Community Cookout was a wonderful time of serving our neighbors! We served over 300 with physical and SPIRITUAL food! Thanks Triple 8 Grocery for your support!
• Bounty of Hope Café severed several hundred meals and the Gospel was shared each Saturday.
• HCM Sunday Service continues meeting weekly; seeing decisions made for Christ!
• 28 children attended the Spring Event on Easter Sunday! Thank you Shannon and Mark Watkins and “crew” for making this a special time for the children and adults!
• A huge THANK YOU to all who gave towards the relief efforts! The response was overwhelming! We have met, and are still, meeting needs thanks to your generosity!
• Assisted with storm relief efforts; sending out several trucks loaded with supplies and meals. Gospel seeds were planted in each bag of groceries given out!
• Cookie Ministry baked several hundred cookies.

Ways you can help Rushton’s Hope:

• Pray for storm victims and for volunteers.
• Pray for those who need a relationship with Jesus. Safety and shelter for our homeless.
• Pray for yh and children leaders for Sunday nights and mentoring ministry!
• Pray for God’s provision for a multi-faceted facility to base Rushton’s Hope Ministries.
• Donating children’s & men’s shoes. Also furniture & appliances in good condition.
• PANTRY NEEDS: POP TOP CANS OF MEAT, SOUPS, & PASTAS, fruits, crackers, powdered or shelf milk, cereals (kid friendly), instant grits and oatmeal.
• Personal products: deodorant, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry and cleaning supplies.
• Volunteers needed Thursdays-Sundays for various areas of service! Give us a call for details!
• Several summer events coming up! Call for information on how you can help!

Thanks for helping us help those in life’s storms!
In Christ, Ron and Wanda
Rushton’s Hope
www.rushtonshope.org

A big thank you from Ron & Wanda Cook:

Thank you so much for responding so lovingly and graciously to our plea asking for help to provide food and assistance to those who are struggling with the challenges of last week’s tornado. We’ve been able to send out a truckload of food each day since Thursday. We thank God for you, our dear friends, for giving in abundance! Please continue to pray for those in our community, as there are still many needs.

Our initial request was to meet the needs onsite of the disasters. Some of those items are still needed and are listed below. As of today, we’ve been listed as a Red Cross resource to meet the needs of families that have met their assistance assessment requirements. This will help us in serving the truly needy.

Thanks again for the overwhelming response and please remember to pray for our community! Please call with any questions! Ron 770-468-6606/Wanda 770-468-6600

Needs:

• Pop top cans of beanie weenie
• Canned chicken/tuna
• Cereal bars/granola bars/pop-tarts
• Snack crackers
• Fruit cups/pudding cups
• Family sized and regular sized canned pasta-spaghetti & meatballs, ravioli, etc.
• Pop top canned soups
• Spaghetti sauce/spaghetti noodles
• Individual snack cakes/cookies/chips
• Boxed macaroni and cheese/potatoes
• Powdered milk/shelf milk
• Kid friendly cereals/instant oatmeal/instant grits
• Plastic cutlery (forks, spoons, knives)
• Paper towels/toilet paper
• Disinfectant wipes/hand sanitizer
• Lysol Spray
• Large plastic storage containers
• 39 gallon trash bags
• Personal hygiene items: toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, soap, etc.
• Brooms/Mops/Buckets/Sponges

We are also accepting household/housekeeping items and furniture. Appliances (in good working condition) are appreciated. We are able to arrange a pick up time if needed.

Ruston’s Hope is helping provide lunches for the storm victims in Spalding County and Barnesville.

They are in desperate need of the following items:

• Peanut Butter
• Bread
• Potted Meat
• Vienna Sausages
• Individual bags of Chips
• Snack Crackers
• Cereal Bars
• Little Debbies
• Fresh Fruit
• Sandwich Bags
• Brown lunch bags
• Napkins

If you can help, please call Pastor Ron at 770-468-6606 or Wanda at 770-468-6600.
www.rushtonshope.org

The images and video footage continue to roll on news channels showing the devastation caused by the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan.

How can you help?

Pray for those affected by this disaster and for opportunities to respond with the love and message of Christ.

• Joshua Project
• Operation World

You can also give to help Southern Baptist Relief efforts in the areas affected by the disaster.

• Give online at www.eagleslanding.org or mark your gifts, “Japan Earthquake” – 100% of your gift will go to assist in the relief.

Other Resources:

• Baptist Global Response
• International Mission Board – IMB

Hello, my friends!

As Jesse and I arrived at Azalea, my car was met with the usual crow of children clamoring to be heard.

“Mr. Tim, Mr. Tim!”

“Hello, kids!” I reach into the back seat and pull out a big plastic container. he children know what this means! Donuts! Every month they help us label the envelopes that carried this letter to your door.  they enjoyed doing the “stickers” and I always give them a treat for their hard work.

“OK, kids! Let’s do he name labels!”

The children take their seats and immediately start yelling.

“I need some Mr. Tim! I need ore Mr. Tim!”

I hand each child a little stack of envelopes and a row of name labels. “Put these in the middle.” I carefully put a label on the envelope and show them the example. “That’s easy, Mr. Tim!”

We all sit down at the tables and begin o work. Fahim, one of the kids from Bangledesh is new to the mission.

“What are these for, Mr. Tim?” His chubby, little brown face smiles at me.

“Well Fahim. Every month, we send a letter to our friends who support we’re doing here at the mission.”

“Support?” Hid English isn’t very strong yet, since he’s new in the country.

“That means they help us. They send us money so we can help you guys. See theses table and chairs?”

“Yes.” He nods thoughfully.

“These sweet folks sent their money so we could pay for them. Remember when it was so cold?”

“Oh yeah.” He made shivering motions.

“If it wan’t it wasn’t for their help we wouldn’t have any heat. Remember when we gave you those school supplies and back packs?”

“Yes!” He looked at his bag.

“The people we’re writing to gave you so you would have what you needed for school.”

He looked at me intently.

“What happens if they don’t give?” He seemed quite concerned.

“Well, I rekon our lives would get harder.”Mr. Tim.”

“Thank YOU From Fahim, my friends!”

John Durham, Honduras GO Team leader, shares a comment that reflects the need in Honduras:  ”The needs here are so great. Pastor (Acosta) said, ‘giving a plate of food is like a drop in the ocean.’  They are so thankful and hungry for the gospel.”

The team returns to Henry County Saturday, February 26, inspired and ready to share the hope of the Gospel with people they encounter week in and week out in their home context!

Here is a powerful, encouraging testimony from our partner church in Lebanon of God’s great love for all His people and His desire that no one perish.

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

God’s mercy and love for us has no end. As long as we look at the cross we can see God’s love through our Lord Jesus Christ. How wonderful to be saved from sin, the old nature and eternal condemnation!!! We are saved through Jesus blood by faith, not by the power of our deeds and religious acts, only by God’s grace!

My heart is filled with joy because God’s salvation is God’s miracle in our lives in changing a sinner, a dead man to become part of God’s family and have the eternal life. What a great joy and blessing to be part of God’s family.

Over the last 2 Sundays, I had a burden to share about God’s love and salvation during our Sunday morning services. So I followed God’s lead and shared from Matthew 11:25-30

“At that time Jesus said, I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do. All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

During that service an old man named “Aziz” (80 years old) was present, listening to every word I was sharing, I could notice in his eyes and face that he was captured by the word of God. At the of the message, as I lead the congregation in prayers to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior, “Aziz” was praying in a loud voice. He was smiling and I could notice the joy in his heart. (more…)

Another great day! We did a play to help the kids understand who Jesus is. In this village, there are Mormon, Jehovah Witness and evangelical churches, so these kids have received some mixed messages. We spent a lot of time with them this morning and now they have a clear picture of who Jesus is. The time spent with the parents was perfect. They were hungry for the food that we gave them, but mostly, they were hungry for the gospel. Tomorrow, we are spending some of the money on more food for another village, we have already given so much away. Also, we are going to the hospital tomorrow. Families, with no money, are living in the halls while their children are in the hospital. They have no money for food, hotel, or travel. The little money that they might have for food, they save to pay for medicine. These people are starving in the halls of the hospital. This hospital is only equipped for 400 people per day, but sees about 2000. We will be giving meals to these families, praying with them, and giving them love and hope through the gospel.

-John Durham