SEPTEMBER 2008 NEWSLETTER

"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me". Matt: 25:40

Salem Village Nursing Home Paradise Park Assisted Living
Rosewood Care Center Lakewood Nursing Home

Just a little humor…..Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years, they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures. Lately, their activities had been limited to meeting a few times a week to play cards. One day, they were playing cards when one looked at the other and said, “Now don’t get mad at me….I know we’ve been friends for a long time….but I just can’t think of your name! I’ve thought and thought, but I can’t remember it. Please tell me what your name is.” Her friend glared at her. For at least three minutes she just stared and glared at her. Finally she said, “How soon do you need to know?”

I can relate to those two ladies. The past few weeks have been so busy; I can hardly remember my own name. Trying to balance all the responsibilities of home, children, grandchildren, church, choir, Nursing home services and visitation, as well as, all the quarterly tax reports and payroll of Verlin’s cleaning business and the continuous care of his mom who has cancer. Then on top of that, we haven’t been successful in selling a house we own and so desperately wanted to sell, so we had to get it ready to rent which created a lot of work.

This morning when I got up, after going for my 2 mile walk, which I do every morning, I started thinking about the many things I had to do today, and how they were stacking up, one on top of the other, and after praying about it all and asking the Lord to help me get it all accomplished, the answer came. Although, He didn’t answer the way I was expecting Him to, my heart was telling me to set all the chores aside and go to the Nursing Home. Someone needed a friend to pray with them today. (I visit regularly on Thursdays, but today was Tuesday). When I arrived at the Nursing Home, one of the residents had just lost her sister and she needed a friend. I sat and listen to her talk about her family and about growing up with her sister as a child. We discussed several verses of scripture and we prayed together. We talked about life and we talked about death and what it will be like when our time comes to go home to be with our Lord. To see Him face to face where we will be rejoicing and praising Him forever and forever. No more tears, no heartache and no more pain. We shared a very special time together. I left her room to go visit another resident and realized she had just died and I was able to spend some time with her roommate. After leaving her room, one of the nurse’s aides came running up to me and hugged me very tightly and ask me to pray for her and her family. After the day was done, I then knew why the Lord said, “Go, someone needs you today”.

I arrived home shortly after noon and all the chores that had to be done today, started falling in place and I simply prayed, “Thank you Lord, it’s been a good day”. I’m so glad I listened to the still small voice and obeyed because if I had not listened, I would have missed the Blessings.

We are looking forward to the coming months. The holidays will soon be approaching, we are making plans for presenting some special music during the holidays for the Nursing Homes and we are already buying Christmas gifts to pass out during the month of December at all the Homes. We will be announcing our plans for the coming months at our October Fellowship and will provide more information in our October Newsletters.

If you are not involved in the Nursing Home Ministry, you are missing out on all the Blessings. Please consider joining us. We appreciate all the volunteers. Thank you all so very much.

Many Thanks to Pastor Palmer and Pastor Steve Holdren for giving the devotional at the Nursing Homes during the month of September as Karl took a much needed break. It was great and we enjoyed you being with us.



Also, Thanks to Tricia Holdren and daughters for special music presented and to Nellie Anglin and Jennifer for singing the song that Jennifer wrote. Kim and Margie did a beautiful job singing. It was all very special.

We welcome Karl back, all rested and ready to go. It’s not easy to be committed to every Sunday of the month and we realize from time to time, we all need a break. It’s much better to take a break then get burned out and not come back at all. We continue to thank the Lord for all of you who are so faithful.

There was an old deacon in a church who often prayed and when he did so, he would always pray, “Lord, prop us up on our leanin’ side”.

After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently.

He answered, “Well sir, you see, it’s like this….I got an old barn out back. It’s been there a long time, it’s withstood a lot of storms, and it’s stood for many years.

It’s still standing…but one day I noticed it was leaning to one side a bit. So I went and got some pine poles and propped it up on the leaning side so it wouldn’t fall.

Then I got to thinking about that and how much I was like that old barn. I’ve been around a long time.

I’ve withstood a lot of life’s storms. I’ve withstood a lot of bad weather in life, I’ve withstood a lot of hard times and I’m still standing too.

But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, because I figure a lot of us get to leaning, at times.

Sometime we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness, leaning toward hatred, leaning toward a lot of things that we shouldn’t. So we need to pray, “Lord, prop us up on our leaning side, so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify the Lord.

Many times we are like Jonah, we don’t blatantly turn our backs on God, and we just get on a ship going in the opposite directions.

We can make a difference in our daily walk if we “EXERCISE DAILY AND WALK WITH THE LORD”.


PLEASE NOTE: All contributions to our ministry should be made payable to “Sonshine Outreach Ministries”. You can mail them to c/o Joyce Mancke, 509 Rhonda Dr., Lockport, IL. 6044l. If you are a member of First Baptist Church of Lockport, and would like to give through the church, just indicate on your offering envelope the amount you want to designate to the ministry. All other gifts should be made payable to Sonshine Outreach Ministries. Your gifts are tax deductible and you will receive an end of the year statement.


Our schedule for October is as follows;

Lakewood Nursing Home, Plainfield – Oct. 5th @ 2:30 p.m.
Salem Village, Joliet – Oct. 12th @ 2:30 p.m.
Rosewood Rehab Ctr. – Joliet - Oct. 19th @ 2:00 p.m
Paradise Park, New Lenox – Oct. 26th @ 2:00 p.m.

Please come and join us, we need your talents. You will make a difference and God will bless you for it.

Respectfully submitted by Joyce Mancke
Email: jmancke@sbcglobal.net.
Telephone: 815-351-7659

AUGUST 2008 NEWSLETTER

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me. Matt: 25:40

Salem Village Nursing Home Paradise Park Assisted Living

Rosewood Care Center Lakewood Nursing Home

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law and four year old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table, but the grandfather’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth. The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. “We must do something about father”, said the son. “I’ve had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor”.

So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There Grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner. Since Grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. When the family glanced in Grandfather’s direction, sometimes he had a tear in his eye as he sat alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled his food.

The four-year old watched it all in silence. One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, “What are you making?” Just as sweetly, the boy responded, “Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and Mama to eat your food in when I grow up”. The four year old smiled and went back to work. The words so struck the parents, they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done. That evening the husband took Grandfather’s hand and gently led him back to the family table. For the remainder of his days he ate every meal with the family, and for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled.

On a more positive note, I’ve learned that, no matter what happens, how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

I’ve learned that, regardless of your relationship with your parents, you will miss them then they’re gone.

I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life”.

I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.

I’ve learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you, but, if you focus on your family, your friends, the needs of others, your work and doing your very best for God, happiness will find you.

I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

I’ve learned that every day, you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch - holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.

We experienced lots of Blessings during the month of August in our Nursing Home services. Despite the fact that we were a little short handed at Lakewood, we had a wonderful service. Dorothy, a resident of Lakewood, sang with the worship team and also sang a special with Karl. Karl and Margie sang a special and they always do a nice job. The people at Lakewood really look forward to our coming on the first Sunday each month. Many of them continue to tell us, our services are the one thing they look forward to each month.

The second Sunday, services were held at Salem Village and the residents are still talking about it. Lynda Downey, Ruth Johnson and Elaine Neuse brought the children from their Sunday School Class from Ridgewood Baptist Church and they sang a couple songs and passed out song sheets to the residents that they had made in class. They really put a lot of time and work into their project. It was wonderful and I had many comments the following week when I visited the residents at Salem. Thank you all for your hard work and for coming. It was a very special day.

We also had a Missionary, Thomas Grief, and his families, who are headed to Romania, join us for the service and the family sang a song together and he gave the devotional. They really touched our lives. What a Blessing they were.

Illiana Ponce played a piano special which is always beautiful.

We still serve cookies and tea at Salem and the residents continue to ask for more and more cookies. Something homemade is really special to them.

We had a full house at Paradise Park and special music was presented by Rhys Fuller. If you have never heard this little guy, you need to come to one of our services. He will bless your heart. He sang “He is Able”. What an inspiration he is. Thank you Rhys for your faithfulness and for your mom, Amanda, who so faithfully brings you.

THE DATE IS SET: October 4^th @ 5:00 p.m. We will be having a dinner/singing fellowship, like the old time Camp meeting we had the end of last year. You do not want to miss this fellowship. We had seven churches represented at our last meeting and we had a wonderful time. Many people have asked us to; please have another one, so we are listening to you. Please come and bring your talents of song, musical instruments and testimony.

We will have chili and sandwich rings, just like last year. It is not a fund raiser; however, we need to offset the cost so we will have a box for you to drop in your contribution to go toward the expense of the dinner.

PLEASE NOTE: All contributions to our ministry should be made payable to “Sonshine Outreach Ministries”. You can mail them to c/o Joyce Mancke, 509 Rhonda Dr., Lockport, IL. 6044l. If you are a member of First Baptist Church of Lockport, and would like to give through the church, just indicate on your offering envelope the amount you want to designate to the ministry. All other gifts should be made payable to Sonshine Outreach Ministries. Your gifts are tax deductible and you will receive an end of the year statement.

EXERCISE DAILY, WALK WITH THE LORD.

Our schedule for September is as follows;

Lakewood Nursing Home, Plainfield – Sept. 7th @ 2:30 p.m.

Salem Village, Joliet – Sept. 14^th @ 2:30 p.m.

Rosewood Rehab Ctr. – Joliet - Sept. 21st @ 2:00 p.m.

Paradise Park, New Lenox – Sept. 28^th @ 2:00 p.m.

Please come and join us, we need your talents. You will make a difference and God will bless you for it.

Respectfully submitted by Joyce Mancke, jmancke@sbcglobal.net. 815-351-7659

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JULY 2008 NEWSLETTER

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me. Matt: 25:40

Salem Village Nursing Home Paradise Park Assisted Living

Rosewood Care Center Lakewood Nursing Home

The months are flying by so quickly, it’s hard to believe August is already here. We had great services during the month of July, especially in the homes where the children participated. We have so many comments from the residents when the children come; it just brightens up their day. Thanks to Jacob Miller who sang a special number at Salem Nursing Home, you did a great job Jacob and we look forward to hearing you again. At Paradise Park we had three special performances. Hannah Cherry did a great job playing a special number on the piano, Rhys Fuller sang and, as always, he did a beautiful job and Sam Lutchman played a violin special and it was beautiful. We are looking forward to hearing you all again. What a blessing when our children are involved and have a heart to serve.

We enjoyed special music from some of our other Nursing Home partners as well. Jack and Ruth VanDeLinden and Carol Stevens sang a couple songs that really blessed our hearts. Thank you so much, we loved having you participate. Please come and join us again.

We continually give “Thanks” to God for all our Ministry team who so faithfully serve week after week after week. It’s so easy to get burnt out or find other things to do, especially in the summer months, but we truly appreciate all of you who are so faithful. It’s a great testimony and you are all such a Blessing.

The Sunday we were at Paradise Park, Nancy shared her story with me. She is a Physical Therapist and she had a hole in her heart which caused her to have a stroke. She is paralyzed on one side of her body and she will be transferring to Rosewood for 6 weeks of therapy. She is a very happy lady, positive about her future and looking forward to walking once again. I watched her through the entire service; she sang and had a big smile on her face which seemingly nothing could erase. After the service was over I hugged her and told her she was such a Blessing, even with all her problems, her smile was so contagious. She then shared with me that her son from Chicago had just called her prior to the service and told her he had gone to church with his friend and invited Jesus Christ into his life. What a Blessing to hear those kinds of stories. The Lord just fills our hearts with joy every time we minister to these Nursing Homes. We come away so blessed and lifted up.

The story was told of a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants. The race began…..but No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower. The crowd talked among themselves saying, “It’s way too difficult”, “They will never reach the top” or “Not a chance they will never succeed”, or “The tower is to high”. One by one the tiny frogs began collapsing, many of them grew tired and gave up as they continued to hear the crowd shouting, “It's too difficult, and no one will make it”.

All the tiny frogs had given up except one and he continued to climb until he reached the top of the tower. All the other tiny frogs wanted to know how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal??? It turned out….. that the winner was DEAF!

The wisdom of the story is: Never listen to other people’s tendencies to be negative or pessimistic…..because it will destroy your energies and your strength, as well as, the Joy and Blessings that God wants you to receive. Everything you hear affects your actions. There is no room for anything but the positive. If God has called you into a Ministry of serving, listen to your heart and rely on God and Him alone.

We all go through trials, heartaches, sacrifices and the devil is constantly trying to attack. We live in a world of change but God hasn’t changed. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. We must stay focused on Him and Him alone. He will lead us to even higher levels of service.

The exciting thing about going to new levels or new heights is, “We have never been that way before”. It’s all new. As a result of that, we need greater dependency upon God to lead us. When we need greater dependency upon God, we began to pray more and read His word more. It is so important that we walk close to Him and lean not upon our own understanding, but in all our ways acknowledge Him and He will direct our paths.

If you want your life full of joy, contentment, and perfect peace, Dr. Henry Blackaby writes in his book, “Experiencing God” – “Find out where God is moving and join Him”

The Nursing Home Ministry has been one of the greatest Blessings of my life. I am so glad that we live by faith and not by sight. If I had looked ahead in time and saw the big picture of what God had called the Ministry team to do, perhaps I would have been like the tiny frog and thought of all the negatives that could happen and the big job ahead and lost my strength to go forward but I thank God that when He calls you to do a service, He also sustains you.

When God leads you to the edge of the cliff, (regardless of what the situation is) trust Him fully and let go. Only 1 of 2 things will happen, either He’ll catch you when you fall, or He’ll teach you how to fly!

I thank God that He is teaching me every day, how to fully lean on Him.

PLEASE NOTE: All contributions to our ministry should be made payable to “Sonshine Outreach Ministries”. You can mail them to c/o Joyce Mancke, 509 Rhonda Dr., Lockport, Il. 6044l. If you are a member of First Baptist Church of Lockport, and would like to give through the church, just indicate on your offering envelope the amount you want to designate to the ministry. All other gifts should be made payable to Sonshine Outreach Ministries. Your gifts are tax deductible and you will receive an end of the year statement.

EXERCISE DAILY, WALK WITH THE LORD.

Our schedule for August is as follows:

Lakewood Nursing Home, Plainfield – Aug. 3^rd @ 2:30 p.m.

Salem Village, Joliet – Aug. 10^th @ 2:30 p.m.

Rosewood Rehab Ctr. – Joliet - Aug. 17^th @ 2:00 p.m.

Paradise Park , New Lenox – Aug. 24^th @ 2:00 p.m.

Please come and join us, we need your talents. You will make a difference and God will Bless you for it.

Respectfully submitted by Joyce Mancke jmancke@sbcglobal.net. 815-351-7659

JUNE 2008 NEWSLETTER

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me. Matt: 25:40

Salem Village Nursing Home Paradise Park Assisted Living

Rosewood Care Center Lakewood Nursing Home

The story was told of a farmer who had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and posted the sign to a post at the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post he felt a tug on his overalls and looking back, his eyes met the eyes of a little boy. “Mister” he said, “I want to buy one of your puppies”. “Well”, said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, “these puppies come from fine parents and cost a lot of money”.

The boy dropped his head for a moment, then reaching deep into his pocket; he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. “I’ve got thirty-nine cents”. Is that enough to take a look?? “Sure” said the farmer, and with that he let out a whistle. “Here, Dolly!” He called, and out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur.

The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence, his eyes danced with delight as the dogs made their way to the fence. But the little boy noticed something else still inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball of fur appeared this one noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner, the little pup began hobbling toward the other puppies doing its best to catch up.

“I want that one”, the little boy said, pointing to the runt. The farmer knelt down at the boy’s side and said, “Son, you don’t want that puppy, he will never be able to run and play with you like these other puppies would”. With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling one leg of his trousers up. In doing so, he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe.

Looking back up at the farmer, he said, “You see sir, I don’t run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands”. With tears in his eyes, the farmer reached down and picked up the little pup, holding it carefully, he handed it to the little boy. “How much?” asked the little boy. “No charge”, answered the farmer, “There’s no charge for love”.

The world is full of people who need someone who understands and who needs to know someone loves them. As the Lord uses each one of us in the Nursing Home Ministry, may God’s love shine through our lives that they may come to know that Jesus loves them unconditionally. We must love one another as Christ loves us and gave himself for each one of us individually. We are responsible for our efforts, not the outcome. The outcome is in God’s hand but we, as Christians, must make the effort to share God’s love with others.

We enjoyed a short month during the month of June, having two Sundays off. Rosewood Care Center has their own Father’s day special program so we enjoyed having Father’s day off. Then, as you are aware, June had five Sundays and we are free on the 5^th Sunday each quarter. Now we are rested and ready to go for July and will be singing a lot of Patriotic songs. Come and join us and share your talent. Just e-mail me or give me a call so we can place you on the program. We are looking for young people who would play an instrument or sing.

We had great attendance in June at the other Nursing homes, with our record attendance once again, at Paradise Park. It’s a great way to serve the Lord, ministering to others. As we have said so many times, we go, in hopes that we will be a Blessing to others, but we always leave the homes feeling that the Blessings are ours. It is like kindness, it is difficult to give it away because it just keeps coming back.

PLEASE NOTE: All contributions to our ministry should be made payable to “Sonshine Outreach Ministries”. You can mail them to c/o Joyce Mancke, 509 Rhonda Dr., Lockport, IL. 6044l. If you are a member of First Baptist Church of Lockport, and would like to give through the church, just indicate on your offering envelope the amount you want to designate to the ministry. All other gifts should be made payable to Sonshine Outreach Ministries. Your gifts are tax deductible and you will receive an end of the year statement.

Pass the Newsletter along to others or let us know if you know someone who would enjoy receiving it. Our list continues to grow and we are Thankful to God and Him Alone.
You can also check out our “blog” at; http://www.sonshineoutreach.blogspot.com/

EXERCISE DAILY, WALK WITH THE LORD.

Our schedule for July is as follows:

Lakewood Nursing Home, Plainfield – July 6th^, @ 2:30 p.m.

Salem Village, Joliet – July 13^th @ 2:30 p.m.

Rosewood Rehab Ctr. – Joliet - July 20th @ 2:00 p.m

Paradise Park, New Lenox – July 27^th @ 2:00 p.m.

Please come and join us, we need your talents. You will make a difference and God will bless you for it.

Respectfully submitted by Joyce Mancke jmancke@sbcglobal.net. 815-351-7659

MAY 2008 NEWSLETTER

"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me." Matt: 25:40

Salem Village Nursing Home Paradise Park Assisted Living

Rosewood Care Center Lakewood Nursing Home

The story was told of a little boy who was visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot to play with, out in the woods. He practiced in the woods but he could never hit his target. Getting a little discouraged, he headed back home for dinner. As he was walking back to the house he saw Grandma’s pet duck and just out of impulse, he let the slingshot fly, hit the duck square in the head and killed it. He was shocked and grieved! In a panic, he hid the dead duck in the wood pile, only to see his sister watching.

Sally had seen it all, but she said nothing. After lunch the next day Grandma said, “Sally, let’s wash the dishes.” But Sally said, “Grandma, Johnny told me he wanted to help in the kitchen.” Then she whispered to Johnny, “Remember the duck?” So Johnny did the dishes. Later that day, Grandpa asked if the children wanted to go fishing and Grandma said, “I’m sorry but I need Sally to help make supper.”

Sally just smiled and said, “Well, that’s all right because Johnny told me he wanted to help.” She whispered again, “Remember the duck?” So Sally went fishing and Johnny stayed to help. After several days of Johnny doing both his chores and Sally’s, he finally couldn’t stand it any longer. He came to Grandma and confessed that he had killed the duck. Grandma knelt down, gave him a big hug and said, “Sweetheart, I know. You see, I was standing at the window and I saw the whole thing, but because I love you, I forgave you. I was just wondering how long you would let Sally make a slave of you.”

Whatever is in your past, whatever you may have done…..and the devil keeps throwing it up in your face (lying, cheating, fear, bad habits, hatred, anger, bitterness, etc.) ….whatever it is….You need to know that God was standing at the window and He saw the whole thing. He has seen your whole life. He wants you to know that He loves you and that you are forgiven. He’s just wondering how long you will let the devil make a slave of you. The great thing about God is that when you ask for forgiveness, He not only forgives you, but He forgets. It is by God’s grace and mercy that we are saved. When Jesus died on the cross; He was thinking of you! And He was thinking of the many other people who do not know him. Be a friend and make a difference in someone else’s life today.

Over and over people tell us, “I don’t know how you do it. How can you spend so much of your time working in this type of Ministry? Where do you get the energy?” I had three people tell me that, this week. I praise the Lord that when He calls you into a ministry, He also sustains you; He gives you strength that only He can give. He will never call you to do a service for Him and then leave you to do it alone. We are never alone, He is always with us directing our every step and He just keeps on Blessing and Blessing.

Once again, we set record attendance in two of the Nursing homes this month, but its not all about numbers, we are seeing lives changed and people in their final stages of life, come to know the Lord as their personal Savior. People experiencing a joy they never knew before.

A gentleman, who was in the Rosewood Nursing home for 6 weeks of rehab, attended the services this month along with his family, and after the service, they told me they would be back next month, even if, he had gone home from the Nursing Home. They just felt a joy and happiness from the singing and the message that they had not felt in a long time. Only God can fill your heart and soul with that kind of joy and we give Him all the Glory.

Natalia Ponce led a lady to the Lord this month at Salem Village. Ruby invited Jesus Christ into her life. Please pray for her that she might grow in the Lord. There’s nothing more exciting, than leading a soul to Jesus.

At Lakewood in Plainfield we enjoyed some very special music at the service. Barb Brennwald’s sons, Scott and Stephen, each played a piano special and what a joy to have our young people participate. They did a great job. Thanks guys. We look forward to the next time.

A couple of the residents played special music with their harmonica. We love it when the residents participate. Dorothy, a resident at Lakewood, loves to sing with Karl and they do a beautiful job each time they sing.

Nellie and Joe Anglin from Phelan Acres church helped us out at Salem Village this month. Nellie sang the song entitled “Just One More Soul” and that is our heartbeat. All of our efforts and energies from the visitations and the Praise and Worship services is worth it all when we see just one more soul come to know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. One by one we pray that God will lead us to someone who needs the Lord.

Since the service at Salem Village was on Mother’s Day, flowers were given out to all the mothers. Each person was given a carnation and, as always at Salem village, we enjoyed cookies and tea after the service.

We also have a nice little gift that we give out to our residents who have birthdays each month. We present them with a little gift box of sugar free fudge and a “Happy Birthday” tract, which is another way of getting tracts into their hands. We want everyone we meet, to know Jesus.

PLEASE MAKE NOTE: The service at Salem Village will be held at 2:30 from this date forward. We will start singing about 15 minutes prior to the start of the service.

PLEASE NOTE: The Sonshine Outreach Ministries has set up a checking account in the name of the Ministry and any and all future contributions to our ministry should be made payable to “Sonshine Outreach Ministries”. You can mail them to c/o Joyce Mancke, 509 Rhonda Dr., Lockport, IL. 6044l. if you are a member of First Baptist Church of Lockport, and would like to give through the church, just indicate on your offering envelope the amount you want to designate to the ministry. All other gifts should be made payable to Sonshine Outreach Ministries. Your gifts are tax deductible and you will receive an end of the year statement.

Pass the Newsletter along to others or let us know if you know someone who would enjoy receiving it. Our list continues to grow and we are Thankful to God and Him Alone.

Our schedule for July is as follows;

Lakewood Nursing Home, Plainfield – July 6th^, @ 2:30 p.m.

Salem Village, Joliet – July 13^th @ 2:30 p.m.

Rosewood Rehab Ctr. – Joliet - July 20th @ 2:00 p.m

Paradise Park, New Lenox – July 27^th @ 2:00 p.m.

Please come and join us, we need your talents. You will make a difference and God will bless you for it.

Respectfully submitted by Joyce Mancke jmancke@sbcglobal.net.

Telephone no: 815-351-7659