How many Christians does it take to start a pressure washer?

Today we helped out a single mom of two who is trying to sell her house with some yard work! She loves the Lord with all her heart and was eager for our help, it was truly a blessing to be able to help her family out. Plus I think some of us learned a lot about general yard work...such as..clipping hedges, spreading pine straw,and pressure washing her driveway/patio.

We all worked together as a team and got all the work done in about two hours! We even had a few new team members this time and hope to see their shining faces at our next opportunity to show Gods love to the community. We have had lots of support and are thankful for all God has given us thus far and as long as we keep our intentions focused on Him and we continue to let Him be in full control then there is nothing this ministry cannot do.

Adoption of Rose

Tonight we adopted an amazing litle girl to send money to her name is Rose. She is from Uganda and she will recieve 30 dollars of support from our group each month. We are hoping to also be able to send her gifts and just completely treat her as the princess all little girls should be treated as! We adopted her through a ministry called Holt International. http://www.holtinternational.org/ You can click the link to find out more about the organization. Basically it was started by a family The Holts who really wanted to help the children in Korea and this was back when adoption was not international so the family took it to court and made it legal for international adoption. Since that it has grown to help many children without parents. We will continue supporting Rose untill she is adopted or is too old for the program. She is a beautiful 7 year old girl who we are all eager to reach out to and simply show her the love of Christ.

Getting everything we CAN.

Today we went door to door to people in our community to gather canned goods, clothing, and botteled waters for the missionaries in Haiti. Every bit helps: we even had some people ask us to come back later to give more. We split up in three teams despite the weather conditions of the cold rain this way we could cover more ground.
<--Yes, we carried it in hand and walked the neighborhood.

Group 2-> did not have much success gathering from house to house so they opted out to buy their own donations to give to the people in Haiti.

On our way back to the car group three was nice enough to let us pile up ontop and give use a ride back to our car.

All in all today was a pretty good success being our first outing of showing the world our love for God and all. We are turning prayer lists into to-do lists.

So today on our day off(January 18) we packaged and labeled everything we collected. Each label we made we put an english and creolen version on there. We all felt like we all got a lot accomplished. We had boxes of clothing, jugs of water, and boxes of canned and boxed foods that are to be sent over to Haiti within the next few

weeks.

Jonny Day, one of our founding fathers has the opportunity to actually go to Haiti for a week and help with the disaster relief. (he is the boy in the blue middle). This is a huge growing and learning opportunity. God has really blessed our ministry and Jonny is an awesome canidate to be an example in Haiti for a ministry and simply just to represent as a Radical follower of Jesus Christ. Jonny will be going February 13-19th. He needs to raise about 1200 dollars. So please support Him with prayers and also if you feel lead to fund him you can email us at aministrythatrepaints@gmail.com. Remember to keep him in your prayers!

Today (January 23, 2010) We sent our collections to their final destination! Our Missions center at the church was not collecting the particular items we had so we found a Haitian church in Atlanta. They were so thankful for everything we gave (a whole 17 boxes)!! We are hopefully going to visit again with them soon they were so awesome! We deffinatly want to get to know this church more and deffinaly form a relationship with them!

What we're all about.

We are all about doing. We want to show the love of GOD to the WORLD. We are doers of the word; and re-painters of the world. We are compelled by Ephesians 5:1-2 which reads, "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." We are turning prayer lists into to do lists.