Dave's Blog - Impact Missions

Hi Dear Friends of Christ & Impact ,

We have had a VERY BLESSED summer of ministry! I believe our most fruitful "in Christ".

Thank you and God bless you to all our teams and team leaders. I have totally enjoyed serving with you and growing in Christ and blessing others with you.

We and I have amazing stories to tell about how God proved Himself FAITHFUL...Mission after Mission.

I thank and praise God for you and our reunited and new friendships.

I so missed not going to Ecuador this year. Yet, SO THANKFUL that Pastor Fabian from Quito came to visit us in SB, IN...GLORY! We are planning our 2010 Ecuador Mission for mid-July . Specific dates coming very soon...like within days!

We are praying for a small team of 20 to finish our summer work in Kentucky. We are looking at mid to late October.
We need workers who are skilled in siding as well as constructing showers for next years team. Any interest? Please let me know. I'm thinking leaving on a Thursday afternoon and returning home Sunday after services & dinner ( Lunch for the Northerners)

Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is w/i me bless His Holy name Ps 103:1

GLORY!!!!!

Dave
Ps 27:1
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I Will Sing of My Redeemerr!!!!!!!

Dear Prayer Leaders & Friends of Impact Missions,

We have just completed a very wonderful mission in Blaine, Kentucky.
Pastor Lenny & Jerry and congregation gave us a very warm and heartfelt welcome.
Our Mission team of students from Ole Miss were just outstanding young people!
Worked hard, played hard and served Christ with a very sweet spirit and willing heart. Praise the Lord!

We worked on a Heating & Cooling project, cleaned and arranged the food pantry and lower level storage areas of the church, painted the interior of the City Park building and created some awesome relationships through fellowship dinners and random acts of kindness. Thank you Team Ole Miss! Thank you Blaine Christian Church & Outreach!

We look forward to teams going to Burnsville, WV where we are helping a local congregation clean and rehab their church building and doing kid's club ministry.

In Hazel Green, KY we are also help a local church rehab their building and assisting people in the community with needed work & repair projects.

We always love sending teams to Richwood WV, Chicago IL, Atanta GA, and Oklahoma City. We still have openings for teams this summer. If God directs you and your church or youth gropup to partner with Impact Missions this summer...just give us a call 800.903.0199 or 616.748.6018

We are also welcoming Christian businesses to sign up for our Fall Mission Projects for team Building & Community Service.

While on this most recent mission to Blaine, I shared with our team a quote from one of my early morning devotion times. Quote: "When we step out with God and for God, and are being led by His Holy Spirit, we need to run to keep up with
His path for us" Yep, that sure paints the picture of our rencent mission in Blaine.
We had "A TIME!"

GLORY!
Dave
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Dear Prayer Leaders & Friends of Impact,

It's time to plan a Mission Service Project with Impact. Speak to your Adult Bible Class, your Family Ministries Pastor or your Youth Pastor and let's go serve others in the name of Christ.

Whether rural Appalachia or an urban setting, we are eager to bring hope and help in the name of Christ to these communities. We love serving Chriost through missions. We love to see Christ work in the lives of people we meet in our mission communities. We love to see Christ work in our own heart, as we learn to love God and our neighbor.

We require teams of at least 15 persons.

Give us a call or send an e-mail: 800.803.0199 serve@impactmissions.com

For a close-up look at life in the present, check out our personal Facebook Account: Dave Fackler / Holland MI

Our chosen scripture for 2009 is "Ps. 111" and our Theme Praise Song of the year is "Above All"

Glory !

Dave

Ps. 111

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Dear Prayer Leaders and Fellow Christ-followers,

Merry Christmas!

We pray God's blessing upon you and your family and loved ones.

I wish you the gift of knowing God's amazing love, through knowing Christ this Christmas.
I wish you the gift of God's peace this Christmas.
I wish you the gift of God's amazing grace this Christmas.
I wish you the gift of friendship and answered prayers this Christmas and for the new year.

I wish for you and your family and loved ones, the very, very best for the new year.

As we look forward to the new year, we at Impact are more convinced than ever , that "IN CHRIST" and living in "HIS" word, our lives hold opportunity for great adventure and great opportunity to be "shinning stars" for Christ. May our "faith-eyes and our "faith-heart" motivate us to live our lives in such a manner that reflects all the strong attributes of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

We still have openings for our Spring and Summer mission service projects. Please consider putting together a mission team from your church or Adult Bible Class or Youth Group and join us in mission. We have communities and families waiting for our help.

Enjoy the holidays and celebrate Christmas every day of the new year. As a friend always reminds me, "Every day is a mission opportunity". Thank you Jim! I believe it! I pray you do also!

The glory of the Lord fills all the earth!

GLORY!

Dave
Ps 100
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Dear Friends,

From Chicago to Kentucky to Quito, Ecuador and West Virginia....God is Faithful!

We have teams this week in Chicago & West Virginia. Please pray for our teams from MN & WI.

Great thanks to Rose Riker and our team from Trinity United Methodist and Holland, MI, who just compelted Impact Quito, Ecuador. Such great ministy...such great learning God's ways from our Ecuadorian brothers and sisters in Christ.

We gained more than we gave. We learned more than we taught. We saw God change hearts and lives. The Scriptures became more alive to us than ever. God's principles for living HIS WAYS...work...every time.

GOD IS FAITHFUL!!!!!!!

Plase consider a special offering for our ministry. Travel expenses have been beyond our budgeted amounts.

Tax-deductable gifts may be sent to:

Impact Missions P O Box 1406 Holland MI 49423-1406

We continue to offer our Mission Service Projects at a cost to encourage participation. We are Christ-centerd and we hold the Scriptures to be God's message to our hearts and mind. His word teaches us His ways, and reveals Jesus Christ as God's only son, who lived and died for our sins ,and for the redemption of mankind ,and rose victorious from the dead as promised, and is coming again....as promised. GOD IS FAITHFUL ....ALWAYS!

GLORY

Ps 117

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Dear Prayer Partners and Fellow Christ-Followers.

We have had a very productive and adventusome Spring Mission Service Project Season. We even enjoed some Spring like weather on our projects, but not at home in Michigan.

At the beginning of every Impact Mission Service Project, we always challenge our team members to listen for God's voice to speak to our hearts and minds during our mission week. And often, very often, God does speak to us through HIS WORD, a conversation, a song or a thought while seeking Him.

I also ask God to speak to my heart and mind during a mission week experiences. How can I ask others to be watching and listening for God, if I am not asking the same for myself?

Here are some mighty things that God has spoken to my heart this Spring season...I give thanks !

God ALWAYS prepares our way. God shows up in so many precious unplanned ways!

The Scripyures are filled with examples of men and women and children who wholeheartedly sought after God.

Am I a wholehearted seeker and follower of HIS? I wish ...I pray...and sometimes I fail in ths area. Me, gets in the way of God...my plans sometimes are at odds with HIS plans.

God's plans always bear "good fruit". My plans show little evidence of anything eternal.

Obedience always brings blessing, but not always right away.

Obedience brings peace of heart and mind. My ways can really make a mess out of things!

God is always faithful to accomplish what He desires. Praise Him !

I have intentionally left out any scripture reference for my thoughts, but by design. I am hoping that you might be challenged to search the scriptures, to verify each point God has allowed me to consider this Spring mission season.

Thank you for your prayers and for your support of this ministry which is dedicated to God, and HIS Glory !

GLORY !

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Dear Prayer Partners and friends,

Impact Kentucky is just hours away. 44 students and leaders will be meeting me and our faithful volunteer leader Jim, over in Hazel Green. Wow...what a great time this will be ! I'm so looking forward to meeting my dear friends, that I call family...Bernard & Lee, Ronnie & Becky, JoAnn & George & Phillip and Lenny & Joy over in Blaine.

Our Mission kicks off on Sunday following worship....GLORY !!!! You just have to know hw excited and blessed I am to be in Kentucky for this awesome mission. I'll be sharing mission ministry with my son Mike and his students and leaders. Thak you Lord for this GREAT BLESSING !

Please pray for God's Holy Spirit to "AMAZE US AGAIN during our week of serving others in the name of Jesus !

We give Him all the honor and glory for what HE WILL DO, in us and throufg us...GLORY!

I carry with me, where ever I go, a little desk sign that reads..."BIG GOD...little us"! It's true! Pb. 3:5-6

Thank you for your prayers and thoughts all throughout the coming week. Please pray as well for u-coming Mission Service Projects in Chicago, West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, Ecuador and Tennessee.

Thank you for caring and praying and giving your gifts for support. SO BLESSED !!!!

I'll be thinking of you and praying for you as well! For all the teams who have served with me & Impact Missions in Hazel Green & Blaine ..I'll be sure to say "Hi and God bless you",our / your friends in Kentucky. Bernard just had a birthday. Send this dear friend a card !!!!

Love You all and GLORY...I'm packing for Kentucky....well almost. WOO BABY !!!!!! I'll forget to pack something I know...but I won't forget to thank God for you, your friendship and your prayers!!!! GLORY ! Not much else matters.

In Christ Alone !

Dave

Ps 96:1-2, Ps 127

Sing that song this week as well as Great Is Thy Faithfulness. I hope to send a report or two during our mission week.