August/September 2009

How God Used You;

We could not do this ministry without our team:

- Mission trips to orphanage in Naco, Mexico

- Students’ hearts opened and children loved with His love

-Starting a new Christian Challenge Club at an unreached, super

liberal Arizona State University Campus

-Our new leadership

-Meals and fellowship each week!

-Lots of students are being met through ASU events.

-Student leaders are being invested in and trained up.

-We’ve been praying for you.

Made possible by God’s mighty power and your prayers & giving:

thank you!

Mexico: One Giant Step for Mankind

For new readers, to catch you up: Sanctuary Church has an ongoing ministry to children in an orphanage in Naco, Mexico. On each of our week-long trips to Mexico, we have gotten to build things. The first week we built shelves ad did a lot of painting. This week-long trip we got to build the children a rock wall! It was a lot of work, a lot of painting, and a lot of telling children: “No Listo!” “Not ready” because they wanted to climb on it before it was finished! The moment we had all been waiting for finally arrived and the children lined up and took their first climb up the wall. They LOVED it! And we loved watching them. It was so rewarding. They have had the same playground equipment and toys for a while and it was very cool to get to see them enjoying something very special. We did it in Jesus’ name and pray they saw Him in us.

This was one of the best experiences we’ve had with one-on-one time with the children. Nearly every child/young adult was talked to one-on-one: some an opportunity to speak into their lives, share Scripture, cry together over things they’ve gone through, etc. and some (especially some of the older girls), just building rapport and building a relationship to “earn the right” to speak Truth into their lives. It was one of the best (as far as Kingdom issues) and one of the hardest (as far as children testing our patience!).

ASU Downtown Already Growing Strong

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world,” (James 1:27).

Before a fall semester welcoming students to the campus, God has already been welcoming students into the team that is going to be an amazing ministry on ASU Downtown. It will also be the only Christian ministry dedicated solely to ASU Downtown, a campus that expects to grow to 17,000 students.

With lots of prayers, strategy meetings and planning going on, we are very excited about what God will do through Christian Challenge at the ASU Downtown campus. Bryan invited all of the students we know who go to Downtown for a time of prayer, dinner and a chance to get to know one another. We were excited to have students we already knew and got to meet one Downtown student we’d never met: the Student Body President of ASU Downtown. God moved mightily and connections were made, vision was casted and a group of people met in a house and talked about how to reach students in Central Phoenix for Jesus Christ.

Support Raising: Faith & Worth It:

Our new supervisor, Brad Schneeflock gave us the amazing opportunity to go to Support Development School where we learned a lot about Biblical reasons to support raise, etc. We also learned (and this was an important discovery for us): that we are not asking for support for ourselves; we are asking for partnerships that enable ministry to happen on the campus we work on for the students we love. And they are worth it. The sixteen students who have accepted Christ are worth it, the students who are disciple and living lives that glorify God are worth it, and being obedient to God and doing what He tells us and our partners to do…worth it! Thank you for being a part of this. It encourages us in Christ and enables ministry to happen on a campus where it otherwise would not be happening. We love you!

Powers Update!!!!!

The babies are here and doing well! Colton Isaiah and Hendrix Elijah Powers were born at 3:50 pm on September 25, 2009! Hendrix was just under 6 pounds and Colton was 5.5 pounds. They were delivered by C-section at 35 weeks because Kim had pre-eclampsia. Please pray for Kim as she recovers. What an amazing gift she has given us: children we never thought we could have. God is so good. "I prayed for

this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him." I Sam. 1:27 times TWO!!! Praise the Lord! Colton is home, but Hendrix is in the NICU for some breathing issues. He’s doing well and should be home soon!

Thank You for Your Prayers!

Please pray…

- Kim as she recovers

- PRAISE Colton Isaiah and Hendrix Elijah are here and well!

- PRAISE Mexico Mission Trips!

- PRAISE & Prayer: New Phoenix Campus

- Bryan and Jamie's Uncle Bob and Aunt Betty as Bob was put in hospice

- Children in Mexico: their Spiritual walks, Christian families to adopt them and documents to be worked out.

- Healing with losing Madison Grace

- Our support

- Sanctuary Church

- PRAISE – Sanctuary’s amazing student leaders

- Growth and development during the summer

- PRAISE: New church plant

-16 have accepted Christ

- C., G., S., J. & M. to accept Christ