What if YOU could help put 400 Warriors for Christ on the Mission Field?

Dear Friends,

When we trust in Jesus and work together, we can do more than we could ever imagine! That is what we have found in nearly 20 years of taking the love of Christ and the message of the Cross to hurting people across this nation and beyond.

It was 2003 when our ministry changed, and our lives along with it! Having served a local church for nearly 14 years the Lord challenged us to move into a whole new dimension of faith. He began to show us that what had been im-possible through our best and most sincere efforts could now become Him-possible if we would only obey. So, we decided to obey, and we have seen God do some amazing things, and change thousands of lives ever since! The Jeans for Jesus Project is one of those “acts of obedience” that we believe is another means to impact many people for His Kingdom.

Our teams have taken emergency relief into areas decimated by natural disasters. We have impacted housing projects and have had Police officers say to us, “Thank you for coming to this area. You cannot know how big of an impact you have made.” Children, the elderly, and those living on the streets have also been greatly touched by the work of the ministry as the Body of Christ has banded together to help those in need. The Jeans for Jesus Project is another way to do even more!


HOW THE JEANS FOR JESUS PROJECT WORKS – from OUR end
We collect donated jeans from churches, civic groups, Sunday school classes, sports teams, schools, and even individuals, with a love offering in the pocket of each pair collected.

These jeans and offering then become a resource to minister to thousands of people through food, clothes, and the ministering of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

• Our Conviction is that there are many people who are in desperate need—both physically and spiritually.

• Our Passion is to touch those lives by whatever means necessary to show them that there is still hope.

• Our Commitment is to “Do as much as we can with as much as we have” and as God brings the increase we will go further in reaching out to those who are the most desperate.

• Our Vision is to use this as a resource to spread the message of Jesus.

HOW THE JEANS FOR JESUS PROJECT WORKS – from YOUR end

• Coordinate and Promote a Jeans for Jesus Campaign within your Church, Youth or Senior Ministry or other organization - you can contact us for ideas on how to have the most success!

• Recommend Jeans for Jesus to others you may know - together is how we make the biggest difference!

• Become a Monthly Financial Supporter of the Ministry - when you “give” it allows us to keep “going” to the most needy!

• Volunteer for one of our outreach teams - You will see for yourself what your investment is doing and you’ll see your life changed too!

• Pray for us - that is what strengthens us, and carries us through the difficult times!

THIS TERM’S PROJECT WILL HAVE FOUR PRIMARY TARGET AREAS:
Jeans for the Homeless -- These are literally life-savers for many people living on the streets. We will be distributing jeans as well as other winter clothing in these primary areas:

“The Tenderloin” - San Francisco, CA
“Skid Row” - Los Angeles, CA
Housing Projects - Raleigh/Durham, NC
Housing Projects - New Orleans, LA
“Kennsington” - Philadelphia, PA
Kingston, Jamaica

Revolution Youth Training -- We are seeing a REVIVAL amongst the youth and college-aged across the country. We are now hosting special Youth Leadership Training Events designed to equip a new generation to take the Gospel into their campuses.

Mardi Gras Outreach 2010 -- Our annual outreach to the City of New Orleans has been blessed to see thousands of people come to the Lord Jesus over the years. We are expecting to put over 400 Urban Missionaries on the streets this coming February. This alone comes with a cost of nearly $25,000 - which is a small price to pay to see many come to Christ.

Raven Jamaica -- We are taking a street ministry team into Kingston in the Spring of 2010.


Remember, your help could have an EVERLASTING impact!

Many Blessings –
Pastor Troy D. Bohn
Founder and International Director
P.O. Box 1897
Daytona Beach, Florida 32115

Contact - PastorTroy@BigGrace.com

website(s) www.BigGrace.com (or)
www.ravenOutreach.Blogspot.com

NEW RAVEN GEAR!

Orders are now being taken for the latest in RAVEN Gear!
The first to "fly" out...

The RAVEN Pendant



7/8" x 1-7/8" glass pendant / silver plated bail / 24" black ball chain

Pendants are made on demand and can be made TEAM SPECIFIC

$20.00 each // Part of the cost is going to help pay for Mardi Gras 2010

Please place your orders via PayPal here:

include:
TEAM NAME / # of Pendants / Mailing Address

Pendants will be mailed as they are completed.
But, please be patient ... the process for completing the pendants is time consuming.

Prayer for Revolution Youth Outreach in Daytona Beach, Florida June 27th -July 6th

Hello Everyone,

Wow, tomorrow I board a plane to go to Daytona to help with the Youth Revolution Outreach and man am I excited! I want to ask each of you to pray for our Youth as we prepare them to go into all the world and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Pastor Don and I have a daughter named Madison who is already applying the Word of God in her by reading her word for herself, powerful prayers, showing mercy and compassion, learning to walk in faith and live by faith. Pastor Don and I have always taught our children about our Lord Jesus Christ and shown them by example. One of our favorite scriptures is in Deuteronomy 11:18-21 says, "Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth."

Please pray with us as we prepare for this Outreach.

Our prayer is one based on scripture Ephesians 3:14-21:

For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen

Please pray for travel mercies for all of those who are coming in and that God will provide the financial means to send other Youth in that may not have the money to come. If you would like to help out please go to RAVEN Ministries International with Pastor Troy Bohn, and click on the donate button or you can call Pastor Troy Bohn at (504) 202-0939. We appreciate anything that you can help out with and most of all your prayers.

God Bless
Robin

Prayer for the New York Outreach May 22nd -26th

Please pray for all the teams that will be traveling tomorrow to New York for the New York Outreach this weekend. Pray the Lord will prepare the hearts of those that are going and for those they will come in contact with that God will open their hearts to his salvation message of Jesus Christ! Pray for travel mercies and that God will protect the teams as they go out, In Jesus Name! We pray everyone is doing well and that God is blessing you! We look forward to hearing the testimonies of what God is doing in New York.....Amen!

God Bless
Pastor Don & Robin

UPDATES FOR THIS WEEK

Pastor Troy announced this morning the following updates for this week:

No Romans Bible Study Tuesday through Thursday

Tuesday Night Broadcast will be from RAVEN West Coast this week...Praise God! Join us at 7:30 Pm Central Time!

Blessings,
Pastor Don & Robin

PRAISE REPORT on RAVEN Bus

Good morning everyone! Praise God we finally raised all the funds needed for the RAVEN Bus #2....Thank you to everyone who called friends, family, co-workers or who faithfully prayed with us to meet this need and for those who gave out of their abundance to meet this need. We can not thank you enough for all your prayers and your support in making this happen. This bus is an important part of the ministry and will help in with future outreaches in the New Orleans area as each year we prepare for the Mardi Gras Outreach. Thank you again for all your help! PRAISE JESUS!!!

God Bless
Pastor Don & Robin

URGENT NEED .......Please help us!!

Pastor Don received a call this past week about the bus that we tried taking to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras Outreach this year. For everyone who does not know what happen here is a brief explaination: The bus broke down in Forney, Texas which is in the Dallas area. We had it in a church parking lot until we could figure out what the next step was...needless to say we had to move it off there lot. We can not thank them enough for allowing us to leave it as long as we did, which has been 3 months. So, thank you Fellowship Baptist Church!!! It was a true blessing to be able to have a safe place to park it until we figured out what we needed to do next. So, that leaves me where we are right now. Pastor Don found a place that will fix the bus to get it in running condition again, they will replace the motor but it will cost $2200.00. The shop told Pastor Don they will have it ready in about a week in a half. Please pray and if you can do anything....and I do mean anything $5.00, $10.00 or whatever the Lord puts on your heart will help out. We do not work off credit cards nor outstanding debt, so please help us!! Please spread the word and tell your friends and family, churches as we need to raise this as soon as we can, please!! If you are able to help us out please contact Pastor Don. Unfortunately, we need this as soon as possible. We can not thank you enough for whatever you can do.

God Bless
Robin & Pastor Don