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The August 2010 News is now online at missionindy.com. You can either click on the link associated with the news or navigate to the Mission Indy Web site and follow the menu News > Newsletters > 2010 > August 2010. You can also download a copy of the news from the downloads page.

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We’ve had some reports of a virus on the Missionindy.com site. After several cleanings with McAfee (PC) and ClamXav (Mac), none of which revealed a virus, the Webmaster visually inspected the code of 15,964 files and discovered two files with code not written by the web programmers. We manually cleaned the code from the files, changed the file transfer passwords, and republished the site. That should take care of the problem.

Any of you who discover any new viruses, please email the webmaster with the details. Thanks.

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The summer is over and college students are returning to their dorms. School buses are on the road and the leaves are starting to fall…wait, that’s wrong. The weather has not realized that summer is over! This past summer Mission Indy was packed with new experiences! We had a record number of attendees each week. God provided enough food to feed everyone and enough workers to help with all the things on the “to-do” list. Matt was indoctrinated into a summer with Mission Indy. Ron was able to leave after the final week and serve with a mission group in Alaska. Niccole was able to help the lead intern with all the job sites. Things continue to run smoothly…well, as smoothly as things can in daily life.

This summer was hot, not just because of the sun, but it was also heated with God’s love. His love was shown through the interns and staff onto others, and held the hope of many in the service for the King. We had people who never experienced a Mission Indy week learn new skills, new ideas, and new churches that were able to learn about MI as a whole. It was exciting and we pray that it continues to be exciting. If you are interested in any particulars like pictures, comments by participants and comments by leaders of churches who participated in the week, please visit the Facebook page. We were so blessed by many returning churches and returning faces from previous years to continue the relationship. We are excited to see who returns next year. We are blessed by the relationships that were made during the weeks and hope to partner with many of the ministries to continue in helping to teach others how to love those that are lost.

When thinking back over the summer, it could not have been a great summer without our staff of interns. Each one added their own element and area of passion. It was a joy to get to know and work with each. We are already thinking toward the summer of 2011 and praying for our next group of interns. We are setting our focus on the fall and the groups that are already booking their weekend retreats, group trainings and service projects. We are hoping to equip others in their areas of service by being a catalyst for the change they desire. We thank all the people who helped this summer to create a change in others. Though you might think your area of service was small, nothing can be compared to that moment of compassion that you took with another.

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The April 2010 News is now available for download at from the link. You can also download a copy of the news from the downloads page.

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Philippians 1:3-11
3Every time I think of you, I thank my God. 4And whenever I mention you in my prayers, it makes me happy. 5This is because you have taken part with me in spreading the good news from the first day you heard about it. 6God is the one who began this good work in you, and I am certain that he won’t stop before it is complete on the day that Christ Jesus returns.
7You have a special place in my heart. So it is only natural for me to feel the way I do. All of you have helped in the work that God has given me, as I defend the good news and tell about it here in jail. 8God himself knows how much I want to see you. He knows that I care for you in the same way that Christ Jesus does.
9I pray that your love will keep on growing and that you will fully know and understand 10how to make the right choices. Then you will still be pure and innocent when Christ returns. And until that day, 11Jesus Christ will keep you busy doing good deeds that bring glory and praise to God.

Do you have someone who helps push you on toward the goal of Christ? Niccole, here at MI, would ask: do you have someone pouring into you? While in college, these words that Paul writes in the opening of his letter to the church of Philippi were words that were used by one to express their feelings towards another. I had a friend who handwrote these words to the person they wanted to marry. They were hoping to be able to “pour” into another more through a God centered relationship; helping push them on toward the goal that Christ has set for us. However, it feels like years since I have thought about these words as a form of personal expression. It is with these words that I am reminded of the faces of the people in my past. It reminds me of people that I was busy doing good deeds with during our times of serving others. It is through these times of doing that I have come closer in connecting with the rest of a person’s life. Through the action of manual labor, I have connected more with others than just simply sitting by them. Don’t get me wrong, there are times to listen and talk over food, but while doing labor, planning and plugging through the harder times of doing good, I have found true friends and have gotten to know the life of another.

This past week we had students from Milligan come share their Spring Break with us and serve the people of Indianapolis as the hands and feet of Christ. During this time of labor is when I got to know these students best. We would joke and have fun, working together; doing the good deeds that God calls us to do daily. No matter the act of labor: cutting, measuring, mixing or simply eating lunch together, we had fun working. We thank these students for giving of their time to be working instead of doing something else that typically is thought of as Spring Break for college students. They were giving to the body of Christ and expressing it not in words as Paul did, but through their physical presence and giving of their time and gifts. These students will have a “special place in [our] heart that is only natural for me to feel this way” because of the work that we have done together.

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