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Abundant Life Lines: Updates and information about Abundant Life's Multi-Housing Ministry
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              Abundant Life Lines
Issue 23, June 2016
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!

 
May Highlights
Lakota Pointe

                  
We finished our small group series about dysfunctional families this month.  There was a good amount of discussion during this study, probably because we can all relate to the struggles that are brought about by dysfunction.  If you are interested in helping with childcare or joining us for small group we would love to have others join us.  We are thankful for Michelle Huddleston coming and creating an environment where residents don't feel pressured to share but can hear that they are not alone in their struggles.  

                             

We spent some time celebrating with some of the kids from Lakota Pointe.  Discipleship followed by ice cream, it doesn't get much better than that!

We will be having our first backyard Bible club at the end of June.  We have already had a few children ask us when backyard Bible club was going on this summer, so that's exciting! We are praying for many children to come and have the opportunity to hear about how much Jesus loves them!  

Our first block party of the summer will be on Monday, June 27.  This is always a great way for us to meet new residents and reconnect with others we met last summer. Let's pray for no rain! The block party will take the place of small group that evening.  We are hoping that those who usually attend will come and help us invite their neighbors!


 
                        
                          
                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. 

 


                                         
           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
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.
Allen and Lisa Lawless
North American
Mission Board
Lead Church Planter
Upcoming Events
 
Small group meetings at Lakota Pointe on June 13 and June 27 from 7:00-8:15 at the Lakota Pointe Rental office.

Core group dessert fellowship / Bible study meeting on Thursdays 7:00 - 8:00 at the Lawless' house.  We are still working on Nobodies for Jesus and are seeing how we need to be more amazed by Jesus and what He has done for us.  We have had four new people join us lately and we love that they decided to come be a part of Abundant Life's Thursday gathering.
HELP WANTED!
 
Lakota Pointe
We will be having the children go outside during our small group when the weather is nice.  This requires  additional people to help with childcare, can you help?!! This does not have to be a long term commitment. Would you be willing to help with even one evening? Would you be willing to be on call in a pinch?
Please consider being part of our childcare team so that the ladies (and hopefully men) can learn truths from God's Word. 


Meadow Ridge
We have taken a short break from small groups at Meadow Ridge.  We will resume after we have had a chance to meet more residents and go from there.  


Heritagesprings
Do you play an instrument or know somebody that does?We are looking for anyone interested in playing the piano or other instruments during our chapel service the first two Sundays of the month.  We have a rotational schedule and are looking for a minimum of 6 people so that each person only has to commit to 4 chapel services per year!  Your job usually consists of playing two songs during a 30 minute chapel service. This is an easy opportunity for you to use the gifts that God has given you to serve Him.  

Please contact Allen or Lisa if you are willing to serve alongside us!

Allen (513) 746-7063
Lisa (513) 746-7062
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