July—August 2018

LIVING AS SERVANTS—NEWS

Connecting Compassionate People With People in Crisis

Doing It For The Glory of God!

We are in the midst of an amazing

time at Servants! We are so excited

about the way God is blessing so many

people in crisis through volunteers,

donors, partners, and staff!

Home Helps held four (4) local work

camps this summer hosting over 325

volunteers and serving over 45

families.

1) Faith Beyond the Pews Work Camp in

Red Lion and Eastern school

districts celebrated 25 years of

service;

2) Northeast Work Camp in

Northeastern school district

celebrated 10 years;

3) Go Beyond Work Camp in Lancaster

celebrated 3 years; and

4) the First Ever York City Work

Camp!!!

This summer we had four (4) trips and

over 40 volunteers to Guatemala, three

(3) trips and over 25 volunteers to the

Dominican Republic, and our first trip

of 10 volunteers to Uganda.

Our missionaries and volunteers are

hard at work in Guatemala helping

with the recovery from the recent

Fuego Volcano Eruption and serving

our at-risk families in Linda Vista,

Nebaj, and Villa Nueva.

Five (5) teams and over 40 volunteers

went to Texas to help with the

Hurricane recovery and we had our

first trip of six (6) to Puerto Rico to

help with Hurricane repairs.

We want to share this with you not to

boast in Servants, but to boast in our

Lord and for the Glory of God!

We are humbled to be a part of what

God is doing in the world today and

are so excited to be doing it beside

YOU, our volunteers, donors, and

partners.

Please pray that God would provide

funding for Servants. God is doing a

great deal of transformational ministry

through Servants, which means our

expenses are high, but donations drop

in the summer and fall. Pray that God

would supply the donations to match

these needs.

Please consider donating at

servants.org/support-servants. You

can contact trent@servants.org or

chris@servants.org with questions. In the Dominican Republic preparing over

180 kids for school !

In Uganda teaching 200 kids how to

play baseball and interacting with the

community!

In Red Lion Youth Groups impacting

homeowners in crisis!

In Guatemala, working with SARF to send

30 kids to school!

In York hosting our first York City Work Camp

with over 100 volunteers!

In Texas repairing homes of Hurricane Victims

who still live in FEMA trailers!

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Because of donors and mission teams…

Be Strong. Be Brave. Be Fearless.

You are never alone. —Joshua 19

Be Strong! That’s what moms say

on the first day of school.

Be Brave! That’s what teachers say

on the first day of school.

Be Fearless! That’s what we wish

we could be on the first day of

school.

For a child in Guatemala, being

strong, brave, and fearless means

going to school every day even

when your family does not have

enough to eat or pay the rent for

the week. It means not missing

school to work or babysit younger

brothers and sisters. It means

warding off the many invitations

to join a gang.

Being strong, brave, and fearless

means young girls refusing to get

married as a teenager and instead

breaking the cultural norm and

graduating from high school.

In a country, where only 20% of

the population graduates high

school, the Serving at-Risk

Families (SARF) Ministry is

working with families:

• to break their poverty cycle;

• to send SARF children to

school;

• to teach adults skills to become

employed or open a small

business;

• to journey with the family in

their relationship with Jesus;

and

• to be strong, brave, and

fearless in their quest for a new

life of self-sufficiency.

SARF’S 2019 Tuition - Backpack

Campaign STARTS TODÅY and

needs to raise $15,000 in tuition

and school supply funding for

our children.

To support their courage and

desire to lead a life of self-

sufficiency, we are hoping you

will prayerfully consider

donating toward the children ’s

tuition, books, school supplies,

uniform, and registration.

Ways to support the SARF

Tuition—Backpack Campaign:

1) Pray for the children and

young adults attending school

next year - that they may be

safe and studious, and that

SARF can raise enough money

to send all of the children to

school in 2019;

2) Donate directly to the 2019

SARF Tuition / Backpack

Campaign at servants.org/

support-servants or text to

give 717-722-0336 or mail a

check to Servants offices in

Red Lion;

3) Sponsor a family for only $35

a month at http://

mysarf.servants.org.

4) Donate school supplies for our

kids at Servants offices in Red

Lion (shopping list on page 3).

Did you know the average years of

schooling in Guatemala is 4.1 years

per student. Over 25% of

Guatemala's

population is

illiterate, with

illiteracy rates up

to well over 60%

in the indigenous

population.

Let’s get together

and pray for our

kids and

families, and

educate them to

break their

family’s poverty

cycle!

Carman doing homework

Be Strong. Be Brave. Be Fearless. SARF Tuition—Backpack Campaign

INTERNATIONAL TRIPS AVAILABLE :

Oct 3-10, 2018 Mountain Spring Camp in Nebaj

Jan 6-13, 2019 New Life Children ’s Home

Feb 8-16, 2019 SARF Family Trip

Apr 27-May 4, 2019 SARF Medical Clinic Trip

NATIONAL DISASTER RELIEF TRIPS:

Sep 16-22, 2018 Vidor, Texas Disaster Recovery

TBD Puerto Rico Disaster Recovery

Call us for more information, or email

LisaSica@Servants.org. A $200 deposit will hold

your reservation.

… SARF Families are getting educated!

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Impacting A Child’s Future

Mission Trip Excitement!

Priceless Prayer Partners

Schools in Guatemala do not

receive any supplies from the

government. Students are

required to buy everything from

pens, paper, crayons, scissors, and

rulers as well as all of their text

books, uniforms, and even soap

and toilet paper.

Thanks to our amazing donors

and volunteers, all of our SARF

kids attend school in 2018 .

When you are shopping for your

family’s school supplies, consider

picking up a few extra items for

our SARF kids.

SARF SCHOOL SUPPLY

SHOPPING LIST:

Colored Pencils

Pens–black and red

White Eraser–not for the top

of pencils

Small Pencil Sharpeners

Spiral notebooks– 80 and/or

100 page counts with lined

paper, blank paper, or graph

paper

4 or 8 ounce Bottles of Liquid

Glue (not glue sticks)

Mini Staplers with Staples

Masking Tape

Black White Board Markers

8.5” x 11” copy paper

Scissors with rounded tips

Lined Paper

Scotch Tape

Thank you to each and every one

of you who has been praying for

Servants and the volunteers,

donors, mission teams, and staff.

Thank you for praying for our

older adult and disabled

Homeowners, Disaster Recovery

Victims, Serving at-Risk Families,

and Borderless Hope’s children.

Stay in the loop for prayer

updates through Pray.com. Sign

up on your smartphone at:

www.pray.com/org/servants-red-

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“Rejoice always. Pray

without ceasing, give

thanks in all

circumstances; for

this is the will of God

in Christ Jesus for

you. Do not quench the Spirit.” —

1 Thessalonians 5:16-19

A Night In

Guatemala

Join us for an informal gathering at

Servants to learn about Guatemala, the

Serving at-Risk Ministry, upcoming

mission trips, and speakers while

enjoying Guatemalan snacks .

Be with us on Tuesday, October 23,

2018. Open House is from 6:00pm-

7:30pm at the Servants Ministry Center

at 100 Redco Avenue, Suite C-0, Red

Lion, PA. For more information, contact

us at chris@servants.org. We ’re so

excited to see you!

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Servants, Inc. 100 Redco Ave., Ste. C-0

Red Lion, PA 17356

www.Servants.org

P. 717-378-0336

F. 717-378-0352

Donate online at: servants.org/support-servants

Text your donation to 717-722-0336

Faith Beyond

the Pews! Faith Beyond the

Pews!

Faith Beyond the Pews!

Go Beyond!

Go Beyond!

HH Staff Four (4) Work Camps Later….

HH Northeast Work Camp!

York City Work Camp!

York City Work Camp! HH Northeast Work

Camp!

Home Helps 2018 Work Camp Season!!!