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Summer has officially arrived and we have several mission teams coming in to help us at Lakota Pointe, Meadow Ridge and Heritagespring. We are very excited to have their help in making contacts with the residents! Please be in prayer for their traveling safety and the residents they will be ministering to.
We we were supposed to go to Tennessee over Memorial weekend to prayer walk with Yellow Creek Baptist Church and answer questions they have about multi housing planting but some things came up for the pastor so we have to reschedule. Please pray that we will be able to help them in their endeavor to possibly start a church plant there.
Saturday, June 4 we had our free yard sale at Meadow Ridge. Rain was in the forecast, but the Lord answered the prayers of His people. You can read about the sale in the Meadow Ridge / North Point section of this newsletter. It was great to be a blessing to so many people!
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Heritagespring of West Chester
We are looking forward to having Dot Buchanan play piano for us during chapel in July. We know that she will be blessed and will bless the residents by sharing her gifts.
Riverview Baptist will be having a song service on Monday, June 27 at Heritagespring. Singing hymns from their past seems to bring the residents great joy. This mission team enjoyed themselves so much last year that they requested doing another song service this year. It will certainly be a sweet time with the residents.
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Meadow Ridge and North Pointe
The morning of the yard sale it was sprinkling lightly when we arrived to set up the tables, but the rain quit within minutes. We had scheduled the actual "sale" from 10:00-12:00 but we were hoping to allow families to shop until 1:00. At 12:25 it started to rain some, so we packed everything that was left so the remaining stuff didn't get ruined. We had 37 families fill out connection cards and we were able to provide many items to these families! We couldn't have provided this event without the help of the West Jackson Baptist Church adult choir. These folks brought bags of cloothes and worked diligently at setting up, helping people find sizes of clothing, packing things up and delivering boxes and totes of various things to Reach Out Lakota. We have many residents who receive help from Reach Out Lakota, so it was nice to help them replenish their supplies.
While the parents shopped at the yard sale the mission team had stations set up for the children. The children started with a story from the Bible then had games and activities to keep them occupied. Some of them were so excited about the "shopping" that they actually chose to shop with their parents rather than play games!
A lot of work went into this sale and we are grateful to everyone who donated. It was really cool to see families packing bag after bag of free clothes, toys, household goods etc to take to their apartments. We serve an awesome God!
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This Month's Specific Prayer Needs
- Continued disciplehsip
- Spiritual growth for those attending small group Bible study at Lakota Pointe
- Amber, Jara, JJ, Aaliyah, Ethan and Indica
- New relationships with residents at Lakota Pointe, Meadow Ridge and North Pointe
- Impact the mission teams will have on the residents
- Core group
- Possibility of an additional location for small group
Ongoing Prayer Needs
- That we would look for, recognize, and create ways to get the Gospel message to the lost people in these multi-housing areas
- That Allen and Lisa's daily walk with God would never get pushed aside by the busyness of this world, including the busyness of family or even this ministry.
- Balancing work, ministry and family
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Support our Ministry
We appreciate ALL support for the ministry, we can't do it without the help of others. If you are able to financially support us we would be eternally grateful!!
You can support our ministry in three different ways:
PRAYING
A praying partner commits to praying specifically for my wife and I, our ministry, and our multi-housing residents. Prayer support is vital for us as we serve on the field!
PARTICIPATING
A participating partner commits to becoming involved personally in our ministry. For example, your church may want to send mission teams to assist us or seek to mobilize individuals within your church to be sent as short or long term missionaries as part of our planting team.
PROVIDING
A providing partner commits to supporting our ministry financially. All funds will be handled and deposited by our NAMB strategic partner, Lakota Hills Baptist Church in West Chester, Ohio. All donations are tax deductible. Please make checks payable to Lakota Hills Baptist Church. Be sure to include "Allen Lawless" on the memo line.
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