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Click above if you would like to learn more about the team and their preparations

Partnership Update 

Each student is trusting God to provide 15 prayer partners and $1600.

If you would like to partner with an individual on the team in prayer and/or with finances, you can download a partnership response form by clicking here.
If you would like to give online, you can visit http://www.jaars.org/youthmissions.

Team members who exceed their financial obligations will be able to direct those funds to help fellow teammates as well as leave a special blessing with the ministries we'll be with this summer.

Updated 6/5 

	Amount Needed	Prayer
Brian Betsch	Fully Supported!!	6
Steven Shaneyfelt	Fully Supported!!	15
Joylily Bogle	Fully Supported!!	22
Laura Bagwell	Fully Supported!!	15
Sharon Gabler	Fully Supported!!	35
Lyndsie White	Fully Supported!!	24
Rachel Johnson	Fully Supported!!	11
Charlotte Pohlig	Fully Supported!!	14
Mike Matheson	Fully Supported!!	19
Beth Matheson	Fully Supported!!	19
Leigh Matheson	Fully Supported!!	17
Jerry Jones	Fully Supported!!	7

Prayer Requests

Prayer Requests are now being written up on the team blog. Click "Team Blog" above to read updates on the trip and specific prayer needs.

6/3

• Pray for the training week, that the team will learn what they need to and bond together as a team.
• Pray for the last-minute details and that we would remember to bring everything that we need to bring.
• Pray for safe travel for us, on-time flights, luggage that doesn't get lost, and a great trip to La Ceiba.
• Pray for Marilyn Reeck as she is doing the last-minute planning and preparations for our team's arrival.

5/12

• Pray for this Saturday's team meeting.  We will be learning new skits and putting together the children's program.  Pray that we work well together and are able to prepare well.
• Pray that God would supply the remaining money needed for the trip.

5/5

• Pray for the students who still have a ways to go in raising money.  Pray that God would show Himself faithful in providing what they need by the deadline in a little over three weeks.
• Pray for our team as we put together a program for children in Honduras.  Pray for widsdom in our choices.

5/1

• Pray for the Team as they have a lot to do right now in preparation for the trip, and have busy school schedules as well.
• Pray that we are able to sell all of the flowers tomorrow at the Flower Sale
• Pray for continued spiritual growth for the team as they learn to rely on God during this time of support raising.

3/31

• Pray for this Saturday's Team Meeting.  We will be preparing skits for the trip so that we can perform some of them at th Spud Supper.
• Pray for the Spud Supper, that God will provide the food at no cost, and that many people will come and catch the vision of youth in missions.
• Pray for more prayer and financial partners for the team, especially for the team members who have not recieved any reponses.
• Pray for the Reecks as they juggle preparing for this trip with their already full schedule of ministry.

3/19

• Pray for each of the team members as they are finishing their letters.  Pray that they would communicate well the purpose of the trip.
• Pray for the support, both prayer and financial, that each team member needs.
• Pray for the Spud Supper, that the planning and the event would go well, and that we would gain many prayer supporters as a result.
• Pray for the upcoming team meeting on April 4, that it would be productive and a time of team building.

Answers To Prayer

Answers to prayer are now being written on the team blog. Click "Team Blog" above to read updates on the trip and specific prayer needs.

6/3

• Praise God for providing for the team:  Everyone is fully supported!  It is amazing that God can provide in the middle of a tough financial times like this.  Thank God for showing Himself faithful to our team members.

5/22

• Praise God that Steven, Charlotte and Leigh are now fully supported!  God is good!
• Praise that last Saturday's team meeting went well.

5/12

• Praise God that Laura and Jerry are now fully supported!  Praise God for His faithfulness.

5/5

• Praise God for the great Flower Sale fund raiser last Saturday.  The truck was an hour late, but we still sold almost everything by 11:15.  We raised $2181 toward the trip.

5/1

• Record turnout at the Spud Supper!  (We came close to running out of food, and had very few leftovers)
• The program for the Spud Supper went well.  The team worked well together and communicated well.
• The Spud Supper raised over $1000 toward the trip! 

4/17

• Sharon and Lyndsie are both fully supported!  Praise God!
• The many donations that we've received from local Harris Teeters toward the Spud Supper.

4/7

• That last Saturday's team meeting went well, and the team learned the skit that the'll be performing at the Spud Supper.
• As a team, we almost halfway supported in prayer and finances!

4/1

• That Joylily is fully supported!  Praise God!

3/31

• For the many people who have given financially and volunteered to pray for the team.  The team has over 30% of the finances needed!
• 400 Potatoes were donated by US Foods for the Spud Supper

3/19

• We were able to reserve our our plane tickets for under the budget estimate!
• The first gifts of support are already coming in!
• A positive first team meeting on 2/21
• A team that loves kids and is looking forward to all of the VBS programs we'll be doing.