Thank You

We would like to say ‘thank you’ to all who have been praying for the team, encouraging us and contributing financially. A great big thanks goes to all the folks who have been putting change in the containers for “Change My World.” We have received nearly $410 so far and will continue to accept change until the time we go to Brazil. Oh, yes and we accept green backs also.

Progress Report

May will be a busy month for the team. We had a half day training session with all the team on May 3rd.The team has several fund raising activities scheduled and a lot of behind the scenes activities will take place. We will continue making plans for our work there, purchasing our tickets and making visa applications.
Prayer Needs

Spiritual preparation: Finding at least one prayer partner for each team member

Travel arrangements:

Ø Pray that we get through the morning rush hour traffic in Atlanta
Ø Pray that the ticket purchasing goes smoothly and our ticket prices will be good and that the visa applications will all be processed without problems.

Work in Brazil:

Ø Clarity in planning – knowing God’s will in what He plans for us to do
Ø Supplies and materials for the work we’ll be doing

Funds:
Ø Fund raising efforts
Ø Keeping trip expenses low

Answered Prayer: Team members are seeing good progress with their fundraising activities.

Fund Raising

Youth Slave Auction!
Sat May 10th --- 8:00 – Noon
Breakfast 8am - Auction 8:30am
Bounty Land Baptist Church (CAC)
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Car Wash
Sat May 24th

Getting to Know The Team

Nicholas Thornton

Nicholas is a 15 year old 9th grader at Walhalla High School. He plays guitar in the youth praise band. Nicholas went on the Bradenton mission trip and loves to teach and help others.


Greg Thornton

Greg is a 48 year old native of Walhalla and has been married to his wife Wanda for 25 years. Greg serves as a deacon at BLBC, sings in the choir and quartet and has been a BLBC member for 14 years. He has been involved with many youth activities and trips and enjoys working with others while sharing Christ. Greg became a Christian at age 13. Greg says, “I am very excited about the opportunity to go Brazil.”


Nerick Thornton

Nerick is an 18 years old senior at Walhalla High School. She enjoys playing volleyball and football. Nerick works at Chick Fil-A. She does PowerPoint during the Sunday worship services. Nerick wants to go to Brazil to help and teach the kids.

Economic Slowdown affects the Davis Lar

Each time we put gasoline in our cars or go through the checkout line at the grocery store we can see first hand how our dollar is purchasing less than the last time. Our eyes were opened to the reality that our dollars are not going as far in Brazil when we received a newsletter from Mark Anderson this week. He said “I was looking at the numbers over the last 2 years and found that with inflation and the falling dollar, the value of our support has dropped 24% since 1/1/07 and 37.6% since 1/1/06. The dollar has dropped 3.5% in value just this 1st quarter. Please pray to our Lord to help us in this. These figures with the above doubled expenses make times difficult. Yet we serve a mighty God and know He will provide.” The double expenses refer to a new ministry for the Andersons who have opened their home to 12 of the older kids from the LAR. They will be living there while they attend school and participate in apprenticeship programs to help them become productive citizens.
Please pray with them as they start this new ministry with the kids. Also, please consider helping them financially in any way you can.