Dana Weller

I can’t wait to celebrate Easter! The bottom line for all missionary trips career, short-term ministry, or work team is the advancement of the Gospel of Jesus Christ! The word Gospel means Good News! What greater good news do we have than to proclaim?

HE IS RISEN! HE IS RISEN INDEED!

God’s richest blessing on this very special celebration!

Dear friends,

Many of you have already heard about the tragic situation on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Tom and I have been ministering to a family from our church. Their 14 year-old daughter, Alicia White was shot in the head and died on arrival to the hospital. Alicia was in our youth group and was a professing Christian. We spent all of last evening til 2:30AM with the family at the hospital until the body was released for the autopsy. She lives with her grandmother, Alberta, a Christian and her 7 siblings, Rodney, Andree, Ricky, Rowan and 2 twin 4 year-old girls. Her mother, Theresa Spike is divorced from her father, Rodney White and lives in Minneapolis. Tom was asked to go pick her up this morning. Please pray for safety traveling today.

We received a phone call asking to pray for another injured, Rudy Green, age 15, who was shot in the face/cheek. He was flown to Fargo Hospital where he had a stroke and is in bad condition. If he has another stroke, he will not survive. Many of these injured and dead were about 14,15 years old. Another, Ryan Auginash was a nephew to a good friend of ours. He was shot in the back and the bullet went into his lungs. The bullet is still lodged in his lungs.

Please pray that there will be no retaliation between families of the dead and injured and the suspect's family.

Thank you so much. It means a lot to Tom and I to know we can rely on our friends around the country to pray at a time as this.

Becky Pollock

Arabic lessons are continually tough and just a lot to absorb... it is not just the verbs I need to worry about, but almost all words seem to be able to be made masculine or feminine. The other day I said "who is this girl" and was told that The "this" I used was in the masculine form, oh boy, and it also can be made plural to agree with plural objects. Sometimes I find myself just thinking about what I want to say and it seems like it takes forever to compose in my head as I go down my mental check list to make everything agree in gender and number. The other thing that is tough is that even when I learn a new word it is almost like I need to learn it 9 ways because when the pronoun is added to it it can sound completely different, like a totally new word I never even heard before....When I get tempted to get frustrated with the slow learning I just keep telling myself that I know more today than I did yesterday, and that really seems to help encourage me.

I am enjoying my classmate Debbie. She is bilingual and picking things up a bit faster than I am, so I was feeling bad that I might be holding back the class a little for her, but on Friday after class she turned to me and said, I am so glad that you are in class with me, you really make this so much fun. So I am glad that I can at least be a little comic relief =)!!

I am starting to form friendships with other students and the teachers as well, so that is a real blessing. I am hoping to get out a bit more and use and hear the Arabic on the street. They speak so fast it is hard for me to catch a lot of what I thought I knew! So I will be happy for the practice, and also to just get out and do things. Please pray with us about the next session of lessons. They start in three weeks and I think that I might move in with a Moroccan family for that month. So we need to consider which family... there is a chance that I could move in with one of my teachers, her family lives in the Medina, the old city, and she knows English so could at least explain words that I hear and tell me what is going on... I know that her family could use the extra income, but I am not sure if they have extra room in their house. So please just be in prayer with us about this.

Thanks for all your thoughts and encouragements!
Cindy

Two Push The Rock Opportunities

1. Overseas Mission opportunity:
   

Love sports? Feel God calling you to a mission trip? Ever consider combining both sports and a mission trip? Push The Rock is excited about using sports to impact the world for Jesus Christ ... ONE life at a time.

If you have a passion for basketball, soccer, and / or volleyball, and have a desire to use that in serving the Lord in another country, consider any one of the three mission trips coming up this summer -- Russia, Ukraine, and Romania. Join a team that will partner with local churches in each city to reach their communities through daily sports clinics, service projects, and evening competition and events. Use your athletic abilities as a platform to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

• Join the men's and women's volleyball team headed into the heart of Siberia June 18 - July 3.
• Join the men's and women's basketball team headed to southern Ukraine July 2 - 17.
• Join the men's soccer team headed back to Romania July 23 - August 7.
  

Additional details about and applications for each trip can be found on our website at www.pushtherock.org. If you would like more information or have specific questions about any of these trips, please contact Chico Schlonecker via phone at 610-967-6861 or at chico@pushtherock.org.

2. Push The Rock Summer Ministry:
   

Summer. Heat. Rita's. The Pool! AND a summer with Push The Rock Sports
Ministry. Summer is coming and we are looking for a few great people that
have a passion for Jesus and a love for sports to join our summer counseling
staff.

We hire close to 100 Adult, College and High School staff members for the
summer and you might be the person God has for us! We have camps in 5
states and many camps in the beautiful Lehigh Valley and we are looking for
quality coaches. At Push The Rock, we offer a competitive salary structure,
meals, and staff clothing as well as a great atmosphere to work in. Camp
hours are usually from 8:00am to 2:00 or 3:00pm Monday-Friday.

We have camps in basketball, football, soccer, volleyball, golf, baseball,
all-sports and other fun things throughout the summer. Push The Rock exists
to use sports as a platform to tell others about Jesus and strengthen those
that know Him as their personal Savior!

If you would like more information on Push The Rock or becoming a staff
member please give Billy Dunn or Scott Hoffman a call at 610-967-6861.
You can also check us out online at www.pushtherock.org.

Push The Rock ... Where the message of Christ and excellence in athletics meet.

“93, 72, 82”

No, these are not the numbers for the Daily Lotto nor the play for that last minute touchdown in the Super Bowl. The first two are the ages of the folks that I recently have had the pleasure of traveling with and one is the age of a woman that will traveling with us to Kosovo in April. Jim Myers is a member of my wife’s church, First Baptist Church in Bethlehem. In February I had the pleasure of traveling with him and others to LaPaz, Mexico. Jim is a very blessed 93 year old man. I tell people that he ate more than I did, probably slept better than I did, and had just as much fun with all the projects we encountered. Most of you know Ron Hoyle, he and his wife Doris served on the field in France for forty years. Well, two weeks ago he got on a plane with me and seven others to Kosovo. What a blessing he was to us, to the missionaries and to those we visited and ministered to. In April I will be leading another team to Kosovo and one of the team members is 82, I am sorry but I don’t remember her name because we have only met once, and as one of my pastors says regularly, “my memory chip is full!” However, the bottom line is this. If you are over 65 and have thought that you are too old to go on short-term mission trip, please think again. Should you want to talk with Jim Myers or Ron Hoyle, I will put you in touch with them. I am certain that the 82 year old woman will get along just as well as the two men did! Thanks for all your prayers, God Bless!

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Feed back on Sticker Shock

Money. Isn't it truly one of the great tests of our faith? No matter how much we as Christians try to make money issues go away, God continues to challenge us and test us when it comes to money. No wonder He spends so much time on it in His Word! -Jim 

You Might Be a Rookie ...

Here are this week’s additions:

You might be a rookie short-termer if . . .

• You say “I’m sorry I only speak English”, only to find out that the person WAS speaking English!
• You learn about 220 current while holding a fried hair dryer in your hand!
• After a bout of diarrhea you learn that ice is just another form of water!
• Standing with only a bar of soap in the shower you realize that wash-cloths are not used by most of the world!
• You take the barf bag from the airplane as a souvenir!

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