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August News - Region 1

We hope that everyone is having a great summer so far. As I am writing this we are dealing with over 95degrees weather here at Home Office in Indianapolis, Indiana. The weather is heating up and so are the activities around Sports World. We have our Summer Conference coming up on August 19th -22nd .We will also have our first Outreach of the season that same week here in Indianapolis. That is right our Outreach season is on the way. Our goal this semester is to do at least 82 Outreaches and reach over 200,000 students. Your region is an intricate part in us reaching our goal. The goal for Region #1 where you are is 12 Outreaches for this semester so far we have 10 on the books. We will need help in achieving an exceeding that goal.

If you are not currently participating in an Outreach and would like to get involve please contact me Devon McDonald at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 1.800.832.6546.
I am currently serving as the interim Regional Manager for your area Region #1. We are still seeking to fill the position with the right person. If you know of anyone who is great at networking and fundraising and needs employment please get that person my contact information.

We will  talk to you again next month.

Region 1 - May update

Hi everyone outreach update  week of April 12- 15th   

I wanted to let you know how last week and thank you all for your prayers and efforts
From our three outreaches last week in Tampa, Sarasota/ Bradenton  and Ft Myers/ Naples
 The pros spoke to a total of  6391 Students and adults  with 235 Salvations!!! PTL
This could not have been done without you!
The Golf marathon was a success  Many of you helped in all kinds of ways
We had a total  of 9 golfers golf in the event to support  Sports World
They raised in Pledges  $8466.00  we have collected so Far $6116.00 of that so we have uncollected pledges of $ 2350
Please continue to follow up on your pledge partners and to pray that all the additional funding is turned in.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
I Thank God for you and really greatly appreciate your efforts! Please share this information with all of your pledge partners and supporters
I want to thank FCA for allowing us to partner with them of their annual event.

I hope all involved had a fun time
Dave

April News

March was a very busy  month for me.  We have many upcoming events .   March we had outreaches in Alabama,  Pensacola, Atlanta  St Lucie county Lamar SC and Lynchburg Va.  This Past week  We  had teams sing up to do assemblies in the Fall in the following areas Palmetto  Oct Winston Salem  September  Boone NC  Oct.  I spent the week  meeting with  current volunteers  and new volunteers introducing sports world in Greensborough, NC  Winston Salem NC  Martinsville, VA  Lynchburg  VA  Boone NC and Hickory NC  before traveling home.  In April   I have partnered with FCA to do a major Fundraiser in Sarasota on April 15th  If you would like more information or would like to help in any way please contact  me.  We need volunteers top drive and help out with events and to welcome some folks that will be coming into town that week to help.
 Let me share one email I received just this week on the impact Don McNeal  had last week when he spoke to youth in west palm beach.  My heart goes out to these incarcerated students.  Thank you all for your prayers and support.
If you would like to support these efforts contact me directly on how your financial support can go directly to transforming young men and women!


On behalf of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and the youth of the Palm Beach Regional Juvenile Detention Center, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to you for arranging for Mr. McNeal to speak to the youth at our facility.
 
The youth and staff were truly impressed with the message delivered by Mr. McNeal.  The youth are still talking about him and his message, which is a true indicator that he touched their lives and instilled hope into them.
 
       We commend you for your generosity. Thank you again and we look forward to working with you in the future.
Anthony C. Flowers, Superintendent

March Update

This January sports world hosted its 1^st annual golf tournament in jax fl. It was a great success despite the cold weather. All the golfers that participated had an outstanding time.  We have decided to move the next tournament to the fall  it will be held on October 7^th 2010 this years super bowl was a great one in Miami  to coincide with the super bowl  steve grant did assemblies in the Miami area the week before the superbowl.  This same week  saw severe  weather conditions in NC.   Greensboro NC had weather cancel the majority of the assemblies. We are currently working on trying to reschedule this event.  The middle of April we look forward to assemblies in lee county collier county,  Sarasota, Bradenton Hillsborough and highland county in Florida.  If you have an interest to get involved in helping anywhere in the south east Us  please contact me.

Starting off the New Year!

As this new year starts. I needed to stop and focus on what  really is important.  Family, friends, faith and YOUTH is what seems to hit me as the most  important.  I realize that with my kids now being grown I am not around teens like I was for most of the last 20 years. I was reminded of this in December when I was at Tomlin middle school in Plant City with one of our pros Ken Johnson. The Joy I saw on the face of so many of those students was refreshing. It reminded me of my times I spent coaching, teaching and mentoring students that age. Youth is the key to future.  They must be given the knowledge to be successful in life. Ken’s message of every student is uniquely gifted and talented and that they dare not give up on themselves really impacted all of us in the assembly that day.

I wanted to share some of the comments from students “   I loved what you shared, it made me understand life.”

“Thank you for coming to our school. I am having trouble right now. Knowing that failure does not mean I am a failure really helped”

Teachers were even impacted and took the time to comment to me on the positive impact on their entire class.