Mexico Mission Trip Update – April 9, 2012

Here’s the latest update on our fund-raising efforts for Stacey’s and Joey’s mission trip to Monterey, Mexico.

We’ve raised $1,344 toward the trip; we still need to raise another $884.  We‘re currently selling Little Caesar’s coupon booklets for $5.  The youth group will be having a rummage sale/car wash on May 19^th.  There are some other fund raisers in the works, but the bottom line is, we could really use a few more donations.

From June 2nd – 8th, 2012, Joey and Stacey have the opportunity to join our church, Fairfield First Baptist, on a mission trip to orphanages near Monterrey, Mexico.  The team will be serving the children in 10 Christian Casa Hogar’s (Children’s Homes), and two churches in the Rio and Cadereyta communities.

Joey

Stacey

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The cost is $1,114 each for them to be able to go.
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Their efforts will include:

• Construction work to improve the facilities, programs, and living conditions
• Sorting and preparing donations for the daily distribution to the children’s homes
• Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ though interaction and relationship building

For more information about the trip and how you can support Stacey and Joey, you can download the flier from my website: http://www.web-ling.com/mexico.rtf.  Even if you aren’t able to make a donation, we covet your prayers, both for the fundraising, as well as for the trip itself.

If you’d like to make a donation, send a check payable to:

Fairfield First Baptist Church

Attn:  Mission Trip

1072 Hicks Blvd.

Fairfield, OH 45014

 Please enclose a note that the money is for Stacey and Joey Wendling.

Thank you for your prayer and support!

Fairfield First Baptist Church is partnering with Back 2 Back Ministries for this mission trip.

Back 2 Back Ministries

The Door-to-Door Bible Salesmen

A pastor determined that his church was getting into very severe financial troubles.  While checking the church basement, he discovered several cartons of brand new Bibles that had never been opened.

So during his Sunday sermon, he asked for three volunteers from the congregation who would sell the Bibles door-to-door for $10 each to raise the desperately needed funds for the church.

Ralph, Thomas and Eddie all raised their hands to volunteer for the job.

The pastor knew that Ralph and Thomas were professional salesmen and were quite able to sell some Bibles. But he had serious reservations about Eddie, who had always kept to himself because he was embarrassed by his speech impediment. Poor Eddie stuttered badly. But, not wanting to discourage Eddie, the pastor decided to let him try anyway.

He sent the three of them away with cases of Bibles. He asked them to meet with him and report the results of their door-to-door selling efforts the following Sunday.

Anxious to find out how effective they were, the pastor asked Ralph, “Well, Ralph, how did you do selling our Bibles last week?”

Proudly handing the pastor an envelope, Ralph replied, “Using my sales expertise, I was able to sell 20 Bibles, and here’s the $200 I collected in support of the church.”

“Fine job, Ralph!” the pastor said, energetically shaking his hand.
“You are indeed a fine salesman and the Church is indebted to you.”
Turning to Thomas, “And Thomas, how many Bibles did you sell for the
Church last week?”

Thomas, smiling and sticking out his chest, proudly replied, “I am a professional salesman… I sold 28 Bibles for the church, and here’s $280 I collected.”

The pastor responded, “That’s quite impressive, Thomas. You are truly an expert salesman and the church is grateful to you.”

Uneasily, the pastor turned to Eddie and said, “And Eddie, did you manage to sell any Bibles last week?” Eddie handed the pastor a large envelope. The pastor opened it and counted the contents. “What is this? Eddie, there’s $3200 in here! Are you telling me that you sold 320 Bibles for the church, door to door, in just one week?”

Eddie just nodded.

That’s preposterous!” Ralph and Thomas exclaimed. “We’re professional salesmen, yet you claim to have sold 10 times as many Bibles as we could.”

“Yes, this does seem dubious,” the pastor agreed. “I think you’d better explain how you managed to achieve this, Eddie.”

Eddie shrugged. “I-I-I re-re-really do-do-don’t kn-kn-know f-f-f-for sh-sh-sh-sure,” he stammered.

Impatiently, Ralph interrupted. “For crying out loud, Eddie, just tell us what you said to them when they answered the door!”

“A-a-a-all I-I-I s-s-said wa-wa-was,” Eddie replied,
“W-w-w-w-would y-y-y-you l-l-l-l-l-like t-t-to b-b-b-buy th-th-th-this b-b-b-b-Bible f-f-for t-t-ten b-b-b-bucks ——o-o-o-or——– wo-wo-would yo-you j-j-j-just l-like m-m-me t-t-to st-st-stand h-h-here and r-r-r-r-r-read it t-to y-y-you??”

Mexico Mission Trip Update – March 7, 2012

Joey

Here’s the latest update on our fund-raising efforts for Stacey’s and Joey’s mission trip to Monterey, Mexico.

Thanks to three very generous gifts, and selling 55 pies, we’ve raised over half of the money we need!

However, we still need to raise several hundred dollars more.

From June 2nd – 8th, 2012, Joey and Stacey have the opportunity to join our church, Fairfield First Baptist, on a mission trip to orphanages near Monterrey, Mexico.  The team will be serving the children in 10 Christian Casa Hogar’s (Children’s Homes), and two churches in the Rio and Cadereyta communities.

Stacey

The cost is just over $1,100 each for them to be able to go.

Their efforts will include:

• Construction work to improve the facilities, programs, and living conditions
• Sorting and preparing donations for the daily distribution to the children’s homes
• Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ though interaction and relationship building

For more information about the trip and how you can support Stacey and Joey, you can download the flier from my website: http://www.web-ling.com/mexico.rtf.  Even if you aren’t able to make a donation, we covet your prayers, both for the fundraising, as well as for the trip itself.

If you’d like to make a donation, send a check payable to:

Fairfield First Baptist Church

Attn:  Mission Trip

1072 Hicks Blvd.

Fairfield, OH 45014

 Please enclose a note that the money is for Stacey and Joey Wendling.

Thank you for your prayer and support!

Fairfield First Baptist Church is partnering with Back 2 Back Ministries for this mission trip.

Back 2 Back Ministries

I’M SENDING MY CHILDREN TO A MEXICAN ORPHANAGE!

OK, now that I have your attention…

Here’s the latest update on our fund-raising efforts for Stacey’s and Joey’s mission trip to Monterey, Mexico.

Joey

Thanks to a couple of very generous gifts, and brisk pie sales, we’re off to a great start!

From June 2nd – 8th, 2012, Joey and Stacey have the opportunity to join our church, Fairfield First Baptist, on a mission trip to orphanages near Monterrey, Mexico.  The team will be serving the children in 10 Christian Casa Hogar’s (Children’s Homes), and two churches in the Rio and Cadereyta communities.

Their efforts will include:

Stacey

• Construction work to improve the facilities, programs, and living conditions
• Sorting and preparing donations for the daily distribution to the children’s homes
• Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ though interaction and relationship building

The cost is approximately $1,100 each for them to be able to go.

For more information about the trip and how you can support Stacey and Joey, you can download the flier from my website: http://www.web-ling.com/mexico.rtf.  Even if you aren’t able to make a donation, we covet your prayers, both for the fundraising, as well as for the trip itself.

Orphans

If you’d like to make a donation, send a check payable to:

Fairfield First Baptist Church

Attn:  Mission Trip

1072 Hicks Blvd.

Fairfield, OH 45014

 Please enclose a note that the money is for Stacey and Joey Wendling.

Thank you for your prayer and support!

Fairfield First Baptist Church is partnering with Back 2 Back Ministries for this mission trip.

Back 2 Back Ministries

Mexico Mission Trip Fundraising Update 2/9/2012

Mission Trip fundraising update:

Stacey and Joey are continuing to raise money for their mission trip to Mexico in June. The fundraising is going very slowly. If you would be interested in contributing, the information can be downloaded from my website at: http://www.web-ling.com/mexico.rtf

Also, for anyone in the Fairfield / Cincinnati area, we’re also selling pies until February 19. We have apple, Dutch apple, cherry, blueberry, lemon meringue, peach, pecan, chocolate cream, and coconut cream, and they’re $15.00 each, with delivery on March 2. They come from Pie Peddler (www.thepiepeddler.com), and these are some of the BEST pies I’ve ever had! Contact me if you’d like to purchase one.