That's Dee Dee, a graduate of our Hotel Housekeeping Training School! She has "a future and a hope" in the words of Jeremiah 29:11.Hello from the Lighthouse on Laramie!
HIGHLIGHTS FROM APRIL 2011
Decisions to follow Christ for the month
142
Avg. Nightly Census in our New Promise Center shelter
44
Families served with free clothing, furniture, appliances & housewares
345
Attendance in our Laramie Street Sunday School, weekly
24
Attendance at our RiverWest Bible Study
4
Children enrolled in our Kings Kids Christian Day Care
39
Elderly Services home, hospital or nursing home visits
57
Formerly homeless women moving out successfully
3
Food baskets given away at our RiverWest Satellite Office
11
Ladies in the New Promise Center who have established a church home
6
Boys Club attendance
50
Number of people completing a discipleship course this month
19
Average attendance at the Lighthouse Diner
15
Average attendance at Roosevelt Magnet School before-school Bible study
81
Girls Club attendance
55
Churches that have Adopted Blocks in 61605
21
Attendance at our Trewyn Middle School Bible Study & Prayer Meeting
18
Food baskets given away through our Garden Street Benevolence Center
517
Attendance at our South Side Manor Bible Study
9
Food baskets given away at our Harrison Homes Satellite Office
36
Attendance in our Chapel services, Laramie Street, weekly
48
Attendance at our Harrison Primary School Bible Study & Prayer Meeting
35
Volunteer hours, as a ministry
3,025
Attendance in our Chapel services, Garden Street, weekly
215
Attendance at our B’Nai B’Rith Bible Study
12
Pastoral care visits & counsels (non-elderly)
40
Attendance at our Hurlburt House Bible Study
8
Attendance at our Manual High School Bible Study & Prayer Meeting
9
Hot meals to the poor
6,508
Mother’s of Kids in the Youth Department Meeting
30
Kids enrolled in After-School Tutoring
75
Attendance at our Pleasant Hill School Bible Study & Prayer Meeting
19
FINANCIALS FROM APRIL 2011
Monthly revenue vs. budgeted
$303,284/$230,725
Monthly expenses vs. budgeted
$264,394/$297,239
Positive or Negative on the Month
+ $38,890
Yearly revenue vs. budgeted
$926,162/$782,900
Yearly expenses vs. budgeted
$1,022,462/$1,104,294
Positive or Negative on the year
- $96,299
How we’re doing versus budget
+ $225,095
The Lord Reserves the Right to Not Participate in a Recession
Our freezers at the Benevolence Center were empty and we needed one pound ground beef packages. We were all set to buy from our supplier at $2.50 a pound. But then the Lord intervened and we got a call from the food bank asking us to come down right away. We encountered a bonanza from the Lord and purchased over a thousand pounds of ground beef in our favorite one pound packs for just twenty-five cents per pound. You know how I always say that the Lord does not have to participate in a recession? He doesn’t have to participate in inflation either.
All four Hotel Housekeeping Training School students from this class have been hired by area hotels. God is good. Armosha Sturdivant has successfully placed all six of her grads this year so far.
The Lord has carved out a neat ministry as a subsidiary of our Elderly Services Ministry—a ministry to medically-fragile individuals. God continually sends medical equipment and adaptive supplies to us, like walkers and accessible toilet seats. We have reached out to nursing homes and other sources in order to give these items away to indigent people. The Marts have gotten into the action, too, with one store last month giving a nurse from nursing home clothes for a patient who had little. Not all the individuals we help are elderly, but all have a significant need.
Michael Ordaz, a graduate of our Culinary Arts Training School got a job at swanky Peoria Heights restaurant 309. This is a great gig!
Thanks for reading this report and Praise the Lord for all He is doing here! Please find me on Facebook or visit our blog www.southsidemission.blogspot.com, visit the website at www.southsidemission.org, pray for us and support us as you feel led.
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