Sunday, June 28, 2009

Cook Out for Project 24

Defend the Orphans held a cook out last Saturday to raise money for Project 24. Bro. Mike Carter was an inspiration as he headed up this event. He worked tirelessly in the heat of the day setting up the event, cooking hot dogs and serving folks and all with a smile. His co-workers at his job donated the food for the cook out. We are extremely grateful to them and Mike for their hearts to serve the Lord and being an example of putting action to their faith. I am reminded that faith without works is dead! Is our faith a dead faith or an alive faith? We know this by the works it produces! We are praising the Lord for all His benefits and blessings! Even though we spent a whole day in the 95 plus degree sweltering heat at the cook out I was more refreshed after it than before because I was blessed to get to serve the Lord! And blessed to see Him provide over $340.00 to help with Project 24. Also a special thanks to Brandon Katz for his tireless work at the cook out. His help was invaluable and his heart to serve an example to all. Thank you to all who cooked baked items for us to sell and to all who came by to eat with us. May you all know that your support means so much to me and your heart to help those less fortunate than us is a beautiful expression of Jesus to the world!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Updates on the Foster Children Fund, Project 24 and upcoming events

The Foster Children Fund that was collected through Walk This Way is now being greatly utilized to help meet some of the needs of the areas DHR foster children. Requests are coming in regularly and we are happy to serve these children as unto the Lord. Pray that we will have the mind of Christ while making decisions about how to administer this fund.

Also Project 24 took off with a bang!! The donations of items needed to help local foster children's homes have been overwhelmingly generous. Thank you Coaling Baptist for your obedient hearts to help the least of these as if you were serving the Lord. The items we are focusing on currently will go to the Big Oak Ranch. Here is a list of the items needed and an easy way to remember them. T.I.P.S. Stands for Towels, Index Cards, Paper for school and Sandwich bags. There are approximately 100 children there and so our goal is to collect at least 100 of each of these items by the end of the summer.

Wednesday, June 17th, we will have a special speaker for the Wednesday evening service at 6:00pm at Coaling Baptist. Steve Sellers from the Alabama Baptist Children's Homes will share with the church about their ministry. We are eager to find out more about how God is using them in the lives of the needy children in our area who do not have a forever home. Please come and hear what he has to share with us and bring your friends too.

Saturday, June 27th, we are planning to have a Hot Dog Cookout Fund Raiser at the Dollar General parking lot in Coaling to raise money to buy pallets of merchandise at a discounted rate for Project 24. Project 24 is a year round project and is designed to continually serve local and foreign orphans. Remember Deut. 24 tells us to leave some of what we have to fill the needs of orphans. So please come and eat with us Sat. June 27th from about 10:00am-3:00pm and help us meet their needs. There will be hot dogs, chips, drinks and cookies and brownies. See you there!