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We are ready to open the Medical Center in Kenya. The Center is 9,000 sq ft with 6 patient rooms, surgical room, pharmacy, bathrooms/showers, offices and waiting area. We have been given everything from sissors to wheelchairs. What we lack are the funds to purchase the medicine’s needed to fill the Pharmacy and a small refridgerator for snake bit medicine. The clinic will serve an area of about 15,000 people including our children’s home, we hope to treat all children for free.

The center also has a dorm for visiting medical teams.

Our project is to provide the Deaf community of Kansas City with a church where they can worship in their culture and heart language.

Seventy-five percent of Men of Valor’s participants in the in-prison programs are fathers.  Knowing the number one indicator that a child will serve prison time is having a father in prison, Men of Valor has developed its Family and Children’s Outreach Ministry.

Incarceration of the father leaves these families struggling through financial troubles, social stigma, residential instability and behavior problems.  The children (the innocent, forgotten victims of crime) most likely will grow up in poverty and see few opportunities outside a life of crime.  Statistically, about 70% of these children will follow in their fathers footsteps and serve prison time.  And then these children have children, and the cycle continues for generations.

Since its inception, Men of Valor has always desired to help the single mothers and children of the men they serve.  In 2010, they began the Family and Children’s Ministry.  Three full-time staff members now focus their efforts on loving, serving and equipping these families to live better lives and give them the skills and education to have a better future.  Their efforts are aimed at stopping the cycle of poverty and crime that has afflicted many of these families for generations. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poet’s Glade will launch a new project this summer, focusing on families that have adopted children with special needs.  The financial and emotional stress associated with such adoptions can be overwhelming and exhausting.  Our heart is to gift these families with a week of retreat and renewal here in Buena Vista, CO.  We will host the entire family in a private mountain home here in BV for a week.  We will provide kid sitting for mom and dad so they have some time to break away and spend time together.  We will have activities planned for the entire family as desired throughout the week. Counseling for post adoption issues will also be provided on an as needed basis depending on the family’s individual needs.  Karla Carroll is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years expreience in adoption counseling. We are passionate about seeing families grow together and experience the compassionate grace of God.  We look forward to seeing Adoptive Families thrive in the midst of what can be very challenging seasons of life.