Walk This Way 2011 Sat. March 26th 9-12

Walk This Way 2011 will be held at Coaling Town Park on Sat. March 26th from 9-12. Hope to see you there to help us raise money for foster children and promote adoption awareness. Bring your donations and sponsorships to register to walk. Our goal is to walk 300 laps in honor of the 3oo AL children still in need of a forever home. This is 189 miles!!! We are taking orders now for the new T shirts or you can purchase them and Walk This Way bracelets at the walk. There will be a bake sale, door prizes, moon walk, face painting and the fire department truck at the park. The dedication ceremony will be at 10:00 with special guest speakers. Mail donations and T shirt orders to Coaling Baptist Church, PO Box 697, Coaling AL 35449. The T shirts are $10.00 and bracelets are $1.00. This year the T shirt is white with a great design on the back. We have some red T shirts from last year available as well. See the pics for your choices. Please pray about Walk This Way and see how the Lord wants you to be involved. Take exit 79 off the interstate, turn left on Hwy 11, go 3 mile and follow the signs to the park.

Walk This Way 2011

I am excited to announce that we are in the planning stages for Walk This Way 2011 at Defend the Orphans ministry. Our tentative date is Sat. March 26th at Coaling Town park from 9:00am to 12 noon. We will be holding our first planning meeting in the beginning of Feb. so stay tuned for more info. Please join us and be a part of some exciting times as we look forward to what God has planned for us to do this year. Please be in prayer for Walk This Way and consider how God would have you be involved. Don't miss out on a great opportunity for God to use you to bring His loving kindness and compassion into a child's life.

Hello To ALL

It has been a long time since I posted a blog but we have had a great fall/winter at DTO. In Nov. we began our Dollar Drive for Adoption Awareness in honor of National Adoption Awareness month. The proceeds went to fill the Christmas wish lists of 12 foster children of the Alabama Baptist Children's home. We were so blessed to get to help make their Christmas a better one. Thanks yo to all of Coaling Baptist church for your wonderfully generous hearts as we all endeavor to please the Lord by helping those in need. Blessings to you in the New Year too.

Heart Gallery Alabama October Exhibit at Shelton State College

There are no unwanted children. ONLY unfound families.

Did you know that there are children right here in Alabama who need families? Heart Gallery Alabama will exhibit portraits of waiting children during the month of October at Shelton State. A reception on October 21, 5-7:00, will feature families who have adopted. Support these children through your prayers and your attendance at the reception. Stay for the "Pay What You Can" performance of "The Secret Garden" at Shelton State Theater at 7:00. See www.HeartGalleryAlabama.com for photos, audio, and videos of the beautiful children who need parents.

Project 24

As you remember last summer Project 24, (a part of the Defend the Orphans ministry based on Deut. chapter 24 where God tells us, in my own words, not to save everything we have for ourselves but to leave a little for the widow, orphans and alien) collected school supplies for Big oak Ranch foster kids. We are beginning the same ministry to these children this summer by collecting school supplies from Sunday July 18th to Aug 1st. There are about 85 kids there we need to help. We are collecting loose leaf paper, 3X5 lined index cards, Kleenex, Hand sanitizer, pens, pencils and rulers. You can donate these items at Coaling Baptist Church in the Project 24 collection bins in the fellowship hall. If you wish to help but don't attend Coaling Baptist you can send a check to PO Box 32, Coaling, AL 35449 and we will purchase some of these items for you.  I can pick up any items you wish to purchase and donate. So when you go shopping in the next few weeks, remember the orphans and purchase a little extra for them in Christ's name. Faith is not measured by what you say you believe but in how well you demonstrate what you say you believe!

May is Foster Care Awareness Month

Praise the Lord for families who will make the daily sacrifice to open their homes and receive the little ones who have no one. You are showing them the love of Christ by receiving them into your home and caring for them. Defend the Orphans ministry wants to honor such families. We are joining Alabama Mentor Network and helping them with a picnic in May to show appreciation for the foster families in their program. For our part, we will help serve the food and drinks and we also want to present each family with a gift bag. We are asking for anyone who wants to help show appreciation to the foster parents to help by donating some type of item that will help fill the gift bags. Right now we are planning on doing 30 gift bags with such items as homemade bread, cookies, prepackaged cookies, crackers, and anything else you or your work place may want to donate. Other items could include insulated coffee/drink cups, sun visors, magnetized note pads to put on refrigerator, pens, Bibles, Tracts, small scented candles, books, and anything else you can think of that they might like. These are just ideas to get us going. I have contacted several businesses who will also be making donations of items. The picnic is May 10th so anyone who would like to donate items needs to get them to me by the end of next week. I will be packing the gift bags next weekend. You can call me if you have any questions. And again thank you to all who faithfully serve the Lord and obey His command to Defend the Orphans, Is 1:17

Walk This Way 2010 Success

Thank you to all who came and participated in the walk on Sat. March 2oth. We were blessed with beautiful weather. The people that came were so precious to support the cause for the orphans and to speak up for those with out a voice of their own. Thank you for showing you care and are taking a stand for the least of these as unto the Lord. Although the crowd was not as big as last year we were still blessed to make around $4,000 so far. The bake sale was great too! The moon walk, Fire Engine truck and face painting seemed to be a big hit with the kids too. Thank you to all our guest speakers, Connie Roberts, Randy Vaughn and Steve Sellers. Thank you also, John Merrill, for your words of encouragement. We still have T shirts and bracelets available to anyone who wishes to purchase them. All proceeds go to the help meet needs of local foster kids. I have posted allot of pics from the walk for you to enjoy and thanks again to all who helped make this possible this year. Also you can see more WTW pics on the Walk This Way Facebook Club Page. Donations or t shirt $12/ bracelet$3 orders can be mailed to Coaling Baptist
Church at P.O.Box 697, Coaling AL 35449.