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We believe that the solution to the greatest humanitarian crises of the last century is the Gospel being deeply rooted in, and lived out, through the people of God. Project love is a multimedia (video/web based)local church resource and challenge being developed for believers of all ages. It consists of teaching and testimony videos that demystify a missional lifestyle of evangelism, and at the same time, calls the audience into a 20 day challenge: Partner with God, to sow the good news of Jesus, everyday, for 20 days. The project challenges and equips.
Initially, Project:love will be spread organically though social media. There will be an official start date for project:love (June 1st).  Once the 20 days are completed, project:love will continue to be made freely available to the local church as a powerful catalytic resource. We foresee the resource/challenge being accepted by small groups, and youth/young-adult groups long after the initial 20 day challenge is over!
We believe the next great move of God is not going to be thousands and millions gathering around leaders with strong personalities (though there is nothing wrong with that). Rather, the next great awakening is going to be laymen led. We see, on the horizon, the pew sitter lining up on stage at local churches throughout the modern world giving testimony of the power of the Gospel flowing through them in every day life. Through project:love, we believe thousands will be provoked to spread everywhere the fragrance of life (Jesus)!

Seraphim Manor provides domestic violence workshops and seminars to educate our clergy and faith leaders in the most effective way of assisting their congregants in how to extricate themselves from dangerous and abusive situations.

It is imperative that our clergy have proper, Bible-based theology regarding issues that deal with violence and abuse in the Christian family. Too often certain scriptures are use to council victims improperly about the issues of submission and family headship which causes situations of even more abuse.

Seraphim Manor needs sufficient resource materials and supplies to continue our classes to our faith leaders and provide low-cost and/or free educational programs.

The Story of Kolya:
Left to wander the streets at age 2 1/2, Kolya started sniffing glue and became addicted to other drugs by an age where most kids are learning how to read or play baseball! Thankfully, he was brought to a Christian rehab center in Mariupol, Ukraine, and today Kolya has been clean of drugs and alcohol for nearly three years! He was adopted by Pastor Gennadiy Makhnienko, a loving mentor and role model. He is known for his talents as a poet and song-writer and now he is using those gifts as well as his physical strength and endurance to share his remarkable story to inspire others.

The Project:
Twenty former orphans are biking 2,500 miles from Ekaterinburg, Russia (near the Ural Mountains) to Lake Baikal in Siberia to raise awareness of adoption and foster care!

At designated stops along the route, Kolya and his friends will be sharing their testimonies with thousands of Russians in order to promote adoption for children just like themselves.

These kids train for months to prepare for the intense physical, mental and emotional strain of biking such a long distance (2,500 miles, remember!) in often horrendous weather conditions and sharing such personal stories.

Won’t you support Kolya and his friends as they share their vision of a Russia Without Orphans? $2/mile/child.

Psychosine is the toxic substance that destroys the white matter of the brain in those who suffer from Krabbe leukodystrophy, leading to severe suffering, complete disability, and ultimately death.  The University of Rochester is conducting trials into an already FDA-approved drug that shows promising potential for arresting the impact of psychosine on the brain.  The implications for treating Krabbe disease are potentially dramatic.

Judson’s Legacy would like to assist in funding a grant that will help continue this important research.

Mission Indy offers a unique Summer Intern Program, offering great opportunities for 10-12 college-age men & women to spend the summer being discipled in a loving environment, practicing and developing their leadership skills, and spending time doing hands-on ministry with ministries and/or agencies in an area they have interest or passion in. 

Mission Indy provides two weeks of intense and unique training, all their housing, food and even a gas allowance for their travels around town.  Students come to Mission Indy through an application and interview process, from colleges and universities aroundthe country. They spend the summer learning, serving and being challenged to love and serve others, while gaining skills and motivation.

After the two weeks of training, the interns spend four alternating weeks at a particular minsitry or agency, such as Shepherd Community or The John H. Boner Center, getting expereince with hands-on minsitry in an area they have communicated interest in.

The other four alternating weeks are spent leading groups from churches across the country who come to Indy to engage in community development work and discipleship training.

Our 2nd Annual WHOLE Women’s Conference is coming Saturday, September 7. However, this time we are doing something a little different that we hope you will find unique and creative.

Our ministry was originally founded and has thrived through the use of technology (support groups, community, webinars, etc.). So why not make use of technology and bring our conference to women around the world? No flights to book. No hotels. No outrageous registration fees.

How you say? Well, WHOLE 2013 will be held entirely ONLINE via web streaming and entirely FREE to attend.

So whether it’s just you in front of your computer in your pajamas, you and your friends deciding to get together to attend or perhaps your church signs up as a live watch site, we are coming to YOU through the power of the Internet.

And we are excited to officially announce our keynote speakers. That’s right. Speakers. Three dynamic women to be exact. And they are in no particular order:

Annie Lobert, founder of Hookers for Jesus
Dannah Gresh, author & founder of Pure Freedom
Lisa Whittle, author of {w}hole and more

Additional testimonial speakers (TBA) will also present on a variety of topics including Emotional Health, Substance Addiction, Porn/Sex Addiction, Divorce, Abortion, Spiritual Abuse, Adultery, Teen Relationships and more.

Since its inception as an organized nonprofit organization Miles of Help Through Christ has operated out of its founder’s residential home, which is a six bedroom home that is equally divided between his living space and the ministry space that serves as the organization’s office, storage, and operating facility.

Gus Martinez, the founder, has not minded the hundreds of volunteers and other personnel that have come and gone in the process. In some cases he has opened up his living space as additional storage or to allow displaced volunteers sleep overs.

The ministry itself has suffered limitations because of the residential address. Such as not being considered for the needed services of a pantry because of a residential address which organizations such as Second Harvest require a commercial address in order to assist. Valencia College will not permit students to complete community service hours or internships from a residential address and also require a commercial office.

Additionally, large corporations and philanthropist continue to pass us by because of the residential address.  We are in need of a start up office in order to benefit from those opportunities that have passed us by in our desire to continue helping the homeless and needy.

Finally, because we do not have a central point we our senior volunteers working from the streets and their homes which limits their reach because of required additional driving.

CSM has been hosting a Summer Soccer league and program for 8 years in Chattanooga. We recruit girls and boys from East Chattanooga, East Lake, and Alton Park to play on our soccer teams and take part in health education, team bible studies, and enter mentoring relationships with our Coaches.

Media Associates International (MAI) is conducting a three-year training program to develop national writers and launch a Christian publishing program in South Sudan, the world’s newest nation.

The training program is being carried out in partnership with Bishop Joseph Garang Atem and the Diocese of Renk of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (ECS). We are responding to his request for help in developing Christian publishing to strengthen the nation’s church and society.

South Sudan received independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011, following a 21-year civil war which cost 2 million lives and resulted in widespread destruction of infrastructure (the nation has only one paved road) and displacement of the population.  The war pitted the mostly Christian and animist South against the Muslim fundamentalist regime in Khartoum in the north.

The challenge of developing self-sustaining Christian publishing in South Sudan will be great, but so is the need for it.  Bishop Joseph sees locally authored Christian books as a key to “nation building,” a means of planting Christian values in society, developing a new generation of young readers, and for providing solid resources for Christian leadership and discipleship. 

In a culture marked by death in recent years, newly equipped South Sudanese writers will offer words of life and hope to readers hungry for both.

Currently we have a need for an iMac, iPhone 5, and iPad. Our laptop is a MacBook dating from 2006, and has topped out being able to update software and for space.

Because we do not have the current OS, we cannot utilize IMessage, which allows texting from desktop or phone. We do significant text counseling, and to have it all work, it requires the current OS.

This means the iMac / iPhone 5 so we can keep our computer going, increase design options, and add the software that will get us current in design ability and communications. The phone is key so as to respond to text when not at the desk. With this system, the tests sync in real time. Critical in counseling.

The iPad is important for making presentations. All we can do not is hand a printed page and refer to our website.

This project is aimed directly at turning the rising tide of suicide in the military.  Of the over 350 suicides or suspected suicides of both active duty and reserve service members in 2012, only a small percentage have been reported to be related to PTSD or other combat related mental issues.  We believe the larger percentage of these suicides stem from isolation. Many of these soldiers, after facing multiple deployments where every minute may be life or death, return home to marital issues, friendlessness, depression, financial hardship and a myriad of other challenges that all men face.  We believe that if we can connect men, which is the principal focus of our ministry regardless of the audience, then we can defray the impact of a return to “Life as Usual” and consequently lower the number of suicides and attempted suicides among male service members and combat veterans.

Touchstone Youth Resource Services, Inc. is specifically seeking funding for expanding CiViL, our award-winning character education initiative for high school students. CiViL is comprised of two components - CiViL Groups and CiViL Service. 

CiViL Groups provides students a safe, small-group environment where they can face, and work through, the often painful issues and pressing concerns that stand in the way of their growth and success.  Students meet weekly with a trained mentor that guides them through heart-level discussions regarding the issues pertinent to their situation. CiViL Groups draws from real-life, personal events as a basis for teaching, rather than the traditional instruction derived simply from definitions of value-based words. 

CiViL Service provides students the opportunity to make a difference in their community through monthly service-learning projects. CiViL Service has given some of the most disadvantaged students the life-changing experience of making a difference as far away as hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, and as close as their own neighborhoods. Students experience that they can make a difference in the lives of others in their community. As one student poignantly put it after a work project, “I finally feel like I’ve done something with my life that matters.”