Schedule of Events

April 3, 10, 17, 24Field Day2:00 pm – 4:00 pmSaturdays at the field behind 3713 Dorchester Road

April 10, 24Neighborhood Fellowship2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Meet at the field behind 3713 Dorchester Road. Pass out groceries, pray for the community.

April 7, 14, 21Young LeadersJeanene Batten Center5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

April 6, 13, 20, 27Education ProgramJeanene Batten Center6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Outreach Partners:Seacoast Church Without Walls Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist

April 2010 Volume 2, Issue 4

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is yet to come. To continue to be able to provide these services we need your help though. We are always seeking dedicated

volunteers who are looking to make a dif-ference in their community. You can sign up to volunteer on our website for any of our programs. We also continue to need your financial support. We are completely funded by donations and those donations make all this possible. Right now if you pledge to donate $25 per month for one year you will receive a free Unworthy Ser-vant t-shirt. Your pledge can help change a family’s life, will you help us give hope to a community in need.

Cleaning Up the NeighborhoodKids and volunteers collect trash from around their neigh-borhood. They enjoyed seeing who could fill the most bags

photo courtesy of Michael Waters

Changing Livesby Michael Waters

We have had a very ambi-tious year so far in 2010. Field Day and Neighbor-hood Fellowship are grow-ing rapidly as we have more volunteers to sustain the growth. More kids are coming to field day each week as the weather con-tinues to get warmer and we are sending more teams into the neighborhood to greet, pray, and hand out food to more families. We have started up our Young Leaders program which the kids who are a part of it look forward to each Wed as they grow into the next leaders of their community. We had six graduates from our Education Program with 5 of the adults finding employment before the end of the six week class. We have as-sisted a family with a fresh start in their new home by helping to furnish their entire house. We have had strangers walk up to Field Day and ask to rededicate their lives to Christ. We have blessed multiple families through our Neighborhood Revitalization Program

clearing out trees from their yard allowing sunlight to shine on their house and removing trash and debris from their yard so that grass can once again grow. It has been an amazing year so far and the best

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Vision Castingby Jesse Williams

The month of April comes upon us quickly, and as a ministry I know we are all looking forward to seeing the sun out. This time of year ush-ers in new life and we know God is working in great ways. It is all in His timing. As the seasons change, our ministry recognizes that we must change as well. Our organization has been able to continually, week in and week out, dedicate our Satur-day afternoons to the least of those among us. We hope we were able to inspire others during this winter and be inspired as we have seen young kids step up and reach out into their own neighborhoods. We have seen young kids volunteer to pick up trash in their neighborhoods, as 45 kids walked around picking up trash in two neighborhoods. We know we inspired a local land and real estate owner, he was inspired as six, seven, and eight year old kids picked up trash from his vacant land, along with a dedicated volunteer. Now this citizen is one of our biggest support-ers as he spreads the word on our major grant initiative to renovate a vacant building that will be used to provide hope for the community. In previous vision cast-ings, we ex-plained that we wish to let our light shine in a dark place and that is exactly what we were able to do. During the winter months, our lights shone the brightest as the fami-lies stayed

inside, but knew every week that we would be in the middle of their neigh-borhood. Moving for-ward, we look with great anticipation to the great things God has in store for this neighborhood. A neighborhood that can so easily be over looked as the average person drives past the Dorchester Road Exit on I-26. We hope to rise up with new growth as Spring approaches and as new life is in the air. We hope our leaders and volunteers will receive new revelations concerning God’s goodness. We hope God’s goodness over flows like a spring revealing God’s splendor. We hope these revela-tions of our God will naturally over flow into the community around us, at our work places, and at our places of worship.

Education Program By David Truluck

SHIELD Ministries is a men’s ministry serving the Charleston/North Charleston area. We partner with TI2TS to help meet the basic needs of our participants. One of the most important needs is employment. TI2TS provides educa-tional classes on Tuesday nights that teach participants basic skills. These include resume writing, job interview skills, searching for jobs on the inter-net, and assisting with transportation to interviews. I would like to tell the story of one man who is participating who I believe will benefit greatly from this class.This man is in his mid-forties. He has worked for a neon sign company of the past decade. Needless to say, with the technological move to LED signs, his company downsized and he found him-self unemployed. It has been 10 years since this man has searched for employ-ment. One major source of frustration for this man is this; many companies now do applications and take resumes on-line. This man did not have the skills to successfully and quickly navigate the internet to submit on-line applica-tions or a resume. Through this class, and the dedicated assistance of TI2TS volunteers, he is learning these skills and he has established as email account to receive responses from potential employers. I do not believe this man would have discovered these opportuni-ties without the assistance of TI2TS. I thank TI2TS for their willingness to do God’s will and help this man and others like him.

photo by Michael Waters

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Ministry Spotlight by Connor Mcintyre

This month, I am happy to introduce “The Well” ministry. This exciting and rapidly growing ministry calls the Long Point Campus of Seacoast Church home. The head pastor is a young and eloquent preacher--Pastor Ernest Smith. Ernest is a Pastor with a global vision. Not only does he keep himself busy stateside with “The Well,” but also planting wells and Churches in Kenya with Bread Of Life Ministry. Ernest is an active Board Member of Bread Of Lift Ministry, taking several trips to Af-rica each year as the host for several missionaries. “The Well” has been very exciting to watch from it humble begin-nings starting in the fall of 2008 with only 40 to 50 attending members to well over 200 in regular attendance each and every Thursday night at 7:27 PM. “The Well” staff – Chris Russo, Mel Alm, Garrett Abel and Curt Hiott do an outstanding job of providing Charleston with a high energy, engaging worship and praise service unlike any other. It may be no surprise that 90% of all of the volunteers of Take It To The Streets call “The Well” their church home. Just this past month, Take It To The Streets and “The Well” have combined strengths. We are excited about the possibilities for the future, as well as the blanket of Spiritual Guidance “The Well” staff has to offer. Go and check out “The Well” for yourself at (http://apps.seacoast.org/theWell), or you can watch them live on www.livestream.com.

Picture of the Month

Kids Cornerby Martha Martin

Hello everyone. I hope ya’ll have enjoyed the nice weather we’ve been having lately. I know that field day has! Spring is so exciting; flowers blooming, Easter, new beginnings and summer is just around the corner. Speaking of new begin-nings, we are beginning to really introduce the kids to who Jesus is. Since we’ve talked last, we heard the parable of the man that built his house upon the rock. With a little help from our Young Leaders, we were able to bring the story to life! (see p icture) Y o u n g Leade r s h e l p e d build the h o u s e s and I per-s ona l ly think it was one

of our best lessons together. We will also be learning our 10 Com-mandments and understanding the need for Jesus. I want to en-courage more of you (kids and volunteers) to come to Young Leaders. We will be watching videos the next few Wednesdays (The 10 Commandments and The Passion Trilogy). See you out at Field Day!

photo courtesy of Michael Waters

photo courtesy of Michael Waters

The picture of the month shows two of children looking on to activities from a recent additon to Field Day...the cross.

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Volunteer Spotlightby Connor Mcintyre

Everyone, meet Natalie Holder! Now, you want to talk about a dedicated vol-unteer, Natalie is a gladi-ator. I once saw Natalie helping set up field day in 38 degree weather in the rain. Natalie is a woman after God’s own heart. It can be seen simply in how she takes care of the young girls of Field Day, whether it is jump rope, tug of war, or a great game of kick ball. Natalie is super active and at times, the boys have a hard time keeping up with her. Some of Nata-lie’s hobbies (when not at Field Day or serving in Neighborhood Fellowship) include rock climbing, cycling, or Ultimate Frisbee. Natalie is also a nurse. Thankfully, we haven’t needed her services at Field Day, so far. So if you are out at Field Day or at Neighborhood Fellowship, be on the look out for Natalie and let her know what a great job she is doing!

Our Mission: To unite the Church Body in order to take the hope of Jesus

Christ to the local community and the world.

Mission Statement: To move from members to missionaries in our community by

emulating Jesus Christ’s love towards others through the forma-tion of genuine relationships.

Contact Uswww.takeittothestreetsministry.orgInfo@takeittothestreetsministry.org

Jesse Williams: 843-642-4233

The TeamJesse Williams - President

Connor McIntyre - Director of OperationsChris Miller - Director of Events

Martha Martin - Director of OutreachMichael Waters - Web Graphics/Multimedia Design

Kevin Herr - Director of Development Joey Trahan - Director of Education

On The HorizonBy Jesse Williams

In the coming months, we look to strengthen our relationships with our outreach partners, which in turn will strengthen our ministry as a whole. As relationships with our partners are strengthened, we enjoy the prayers and the active participation of churches, ministries, non-profit orga-nizations, and local government of-ficials like the City of North Charles-ton. We share the passion of blessing our city with North Charleston lead-ers. They have endorsed our efforts to begin a Center that offers hope to the community and they have allowed us to utilize the local community cen-ter to bless the community. We look forward to learning new ways that we can work together. We also look forward to strengthening our lead-ership and learning to work closely together through an ever increasing level of accountability and com-munication. This working together allows us to continue to strengthen our organizational structure to bet-ter help the community for God’s Glory. When people ask us why we do all that we do, we always want to be able to answer, “it is because of what God has done in our lives”. Our natural response to the goodness of God is to obey him. Moving for-ward, we must always give God the glory and in no way take the glory upon ourselves. When this happens, our strength will be decreased be-cause we cannot operate in our own strength. Our prayer is that through the power of the Holy Spirit, God will enable us to put Him first and always give Him the glory for what happens at Take It To The Streets.

photo by Michael Waters