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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NO FEAR / JUST FAITH

As we have shared, BYM has been running a little low on funds recently.  Nothing God can’t handle and we continue to wait on Him.  It has given us some time to rest, re-evaluate, and re-focus, which is all good.  It’s easy for me to get too busy “doing” and not do enough “listening”.  Can I get an AMEN!?

Many of you have responded to the need and we cannot thank you enough.  I want to share about a particular gift that I was honored and humbled to accept.

One of the first persons to show up on my door step with a check was my friend Karla Underwood.  Now that may not mean much to some of y’all because you don’t know who that is.  Karla and her husband Duke are evangelists and also have an after school program for kids in east Lubbock.  What makes their gift unique is that, like me, they depend on donations to get a pay check.  Like me, they do not know ahead of time what money will come in.  Their demonstration of faith, to bless another ministry, knowing that the roles might be reversed the next month, really touched my heart.  Ministry sowing into ministry, I like that. 

Jesus never hesitated to give because He was afraid He wouldn’t have enough for Himself.  
October 2007

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Families Served - 561

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This September the Backyard Mission team along with other volunteers from LakeRidge UMC and the Lubbock Firefighters Association built a house for Habitat for Humanity.  Great job!

** A big thanks to Alamo Remodeling for providing a dump truck for us!! **
   
Habitat House for Calandra Lockett 
and her four kids.

2007 BYM BUDGET - $125,000
REC. to DATE - $85,341 
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  Consider a gift to Backyard Mission in honor or memory of someone.  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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, Home Instead Senior Care Foundation