Backyard Mission Newsletter…do the Word.

Mission Statement:

1.  Get people warm and dry by providing free home repairs, using volunteer labor and buying materials with donated money.  Demonstrating the love of Christ!

2.  Give Christians the opportunity to put their faith into action by loving and serving their neighbors.

3.  Help other churches start a Backyard Mission program in their community.
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AUGUST BIRTHDAYS

At the end of this month, Backyard Mission and I will both turn a year older.  Backyard Mission turns 15, and I turn………….well, you don’t need to know that.  All I can say is that when I started this, 15 years ago, I was skinny and had black hair.  We worked on seven homes that first year.  Last year we helped 139 families.
As frustrating as it is, I know why God doesn’t reveal the whole picture for our lives at once.  We would collapse!  I know I would have.
After doing something this long and getting older, I begin to ask Him………..is it time for something else?  Something bigger?  Something different?  Am I still where you want me to be?  (Yes, people in ministry ask those questions.)

Encouragement came through a friend of mine who works at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.  She has led several mission teams to Africa over the years.  This year they went for three weeks.  They were gathering information to help with a pilot water project; working on pump and well designs, and water transport and latrine designs that will be part of the West Africa Water Initiative.  WOW!!  I can’t imagine doing that, now that’s REAL mission work.
I wrote and told her that she was my hero and I was so proud of what she was doing for the Lord.  She wrote back and said, “Going for three weeks and coming back is easy.  I can’t imagine doing what you do.  Working with people in need every day, you are my hero.”  Good birthday present.

Thanks God.
August 2007

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Families Served - 549

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Hey!!!  Our new web-site is up and running after being lost in cyberspace for a couple of years.  Check it out:  www.backyardmission.org
There is a video you can play on the web-site, tell me what you think.  I also have a new e-mail address to go along with the web-site:  Lfoster@backyardmission.org

** A big thanks to Alamo Remodeling for providing a dump truck for us!! **

The beginning – 1992      15 years later – 2007

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Board Members:
Jim Taylor		Mary Kay McCauley
Sheri Haynes		Laren Craig
Glenn West		Lindy Fruge’

LAURIE FOSTER,  DIRECTOR / FOUNDER       
4701 - 82nd St		               (806) 794-4015
Lubbock, TX  79424	  
Lfoster@backyardmission.org  / www.backyardmission.org

Grants received 2007
Betenbough Foundation, LAF – unrestricted funds, Chester & Ada Ruth Green, Fern Cone, Roy & Lela Furr, C.R. & Virginia Hutcheson, Hassel Endowment, Horizon Fund, and Gladys Leftwich.
South Plains Foundation

FUNDS ARE LOW RIGHT NOW – 
PLEASE GIVE IF YOU CAN.
THANK YOU - LAURIE