Praise Reports

©       Special thanks to Doug and Linda Rampona of First Colonial Eye Care for donating glasses to Anthony’s little sister, Alexis.

©       $2,000 was raised at the basketball tournament to help Crystal pray for Ant. C’s funeral

©       Tanicia, Shawn-Dera and Natalie G. were chosen to participate in Steppin’ with the Stars. All of them did a wonderful job putting together a 2-minute step & 1-minute dance with a Landstown teacher.

©       Tanicia Johnson won the Dancing with the Stars competition at Landstown Middle School  

Prayer Requests

©      For Anthony’s mother Crystal and his twin sisters, Alexis & Alicia

©      Laptop computers

©      Finances for Summer Camp

©     Committed men to disciple our boys

Needed

this month:

o     Finances to help with the monthly expenses

o     Men to influence the young men in Twin Canal to live for God

o     Gas cards

Scripture of the Month

Psalms 37:4

Delight yourself in the LORD

 and He will give you the desires

of your heart.

to:

 James Taylor, Bobby White, Pastor Meeks, Deacon Sam, and others from CRC-C who made the fundraising basketball tournament for Anthony’s family possible!

           Homeschooling 2007

We have embarked on a new adventure over the past month - homeschooling one of our 7^th grade girls.  Tanisha is one of our highly gifted students, but has difficultly focusing in the classroom.  She has proven herself to be extremely faithful and eager to learn, but in public school she was on the verge of expulsion due to her incessant talking.

We have enrolled Tanisha in a Christian Homeschool program out of Chicago called Jubilee Academy.  Our vision is to homeschool her for the remainder of this year and possibly next year, contingent upon her continued success in homeschooling.  Then she will return to public school when she enters high school. 

Over the past week we have seen the tremendous impact of homeschooling.  We have been able to pick up all of the math concepts that Tanisha was lacking from the 7^th grade and now we are teaching her Algebra.  She is also advancing in Science, History, and English.  In addition, we have also started teaching her US Government, which is an 8^th grade course along with Web Design. 

Tanisha’s excitement for learning and her ability to retain information has exceeded even our expectations.  We knew that by homeschooling her we would enable her to return to public school without falling behind, but we never assumed that we would be able to advance her to such high levels in so many subjects.  We know that God works all things together for good, and we have seen in such a short amount of time the impact that homeschooling has had in Tanisha’s life.

It is essential that we continue to teach godly principles and reward good behavior. It is only through the help of others that we are going to be able to continue to advance God’s kingdom in this generation. We would therefore, like to ask you to prayerfully consider supporting UIH financially. 

At this present time we are in need of laptop computers, carpet, Summer Leadership Camp supplies, money for uniforms for step team competitions, as well as additional monthly supporters.  Over the past 4 years, we have poured all of our personal resources into the ministry and never taken a salary; however, we know that we cannot continue along this same path.  We are praying for others to partner with us through prayer and finances in order to totally transform the entire community through the love of Jesus Christ.

The Pre Teen Ball  

by Tanisha Gilchrist

Calvary Revival Church hosted a pre-teen ball for 5^th – 8^th graders.  This event was the bomb!  They played    good    music   and   we danced until

11:00 p.m.   It was a great experience as it was my first Ball. We had a good time dressing up and they  served  macaroni cheese, chicken, desserts and  drinks.