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LCM In Action

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We are Blessed

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Van Wells

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Letter From Inmate 5

Funnies 6

Letter From President 7

Prayer 8

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In the Name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit

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Ma rch 1 , 20 11 In The Y ea r o f Ou r Lo rd

You Are Cordially Invited You Are Cordially Invited You Are Cordially Invited To Love And Compassion Ministries Annual Plant a Seed

Free Love Offering Dinner

Feature Speaker Pastor Jim Holbrook

March 25th 2011 5:30 PM At

First Baptist Church of Fort Myers 1735 Jackson Street

Fort Myers, Florida 33901 Come and enjoy a night of fun, good food and learn more

about Love and Compassion In Action.

Please RSVP by March 14, 2011 by e-mail to: dinner@lovecompassion.com or call 239-574-5683

Free Parking is available in the parking garage across from Church.

Dress Casually (leave your tie at home).

All of us here at Love And Compassion Ministries are excited to be apart of

what God is doing in this community in regards to homelessness, runaways, job

placement, drug and alcohol addicted people, troubled veterans and so many

more.

First Baptist Church of Fort Myers 1735 Jackson Street

Fort Myers, Florida 33901

South side of Church is the entrance of the Activities Center where good food will be served up with good fellowship.

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Love And Compassion Ministries, Inc. is made up of many

Ministries rolled up into one!

With many wonderful volunteers we are able to serve this community in many ways!

THIS IS

Love and Compassion Ministries

In Action

Won’t you join us in our mission to reach out to the hurting with

love and compassion regardless of their faith, race or gender.

PRISON MINISTRY

HOMELESS MINISTRY

STREET OUTREACH MINISTRY

YOUTH MINISTRY

DRUG PROGRAM MINISTRY

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2011 Directors In No Special Order

Lyle Smith

Jim Cossairt

Joann Cossairt

John Domino

Mark Decker

Frank Blake

Tony Distaffen

Ron Willis

Advisory Board In No Special Order

Steve Smith

Barbara Smith

Elizabeth Domino

Van Wells

Marybeth Blake

Kevin Cummings

Sandy Cummings

Johnny Rosko

Margaret Rowlett

Peter Makrys

Torrey Husband

Chuck Hirst

Gary Danno

Francine Danno

Betty Bates

William Stewart

Sally Stewart

Buddy Malcomb

Nancy Barta

Joseph Whetsel

Jean Whetsel

Henry Brown

Kelly Bryant

Close Advisors In No Special Order

Dean Bubois

Geneva Mock

Dick Tatro

Amy York

Bertha Lemmon

Bonnie Sanders

Jim Holbrook

Gean Holbrook

Buck Philips

Paula Philips

Gail Bubois

Rich Hartz

Barbara Hartz

Kendra English

Talbert Melton

Carolyn Melton

Zoe Smith

Robert Willis

Support Churches / Ministries /

Business In No Special Order

Cypress Lake Baptist Church

Zion Lutheran Church

Faith Fellowship World Outreach

First Baptist Church of Fort

Myers

First Assembly West

Messiah Lutheran Church

Central Baptist Church

All Souls Episcopal Church

Hiland Park Baptist Church

Shepherds Gate

Grace United Methodist Church

of Cape Coral

Teen Challenge International

Sam Galloway Ford

Florida Heating and Air

Decker Homes

Divine Intervention of SW FL

Kiwanis Club

JM Todd Insurance

Mock Engineering

Quick Print of Cape Coral

Love And Compassion Ministries, Inc.

Is very blessed to have so many wonderful volunteers, advisors, Churches,

businesses and ministries helping to run this ministry.

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Van Wells has been a wonderful friend, donor, director and is now on our Advisory Board, but his heart has been in

the Dominican Republic for many years now and he wants you to know:

Dear Christian Friends:

In 2005 I began a journey to help the poor in the Dominican Republic. Domini-

can's have great family values but suffer in the poorer provinces where there are

few work opportunities. The Dominican Republic has the highest unemploy-

ment percentage for all of Latin America plus they have 600,000 Haitians living

in their country.

As we have worked with missionaries in Palmar Arriba (a province next door to Santiago) where they have estab-

lished a Missouri Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church and school, things begin to change through the intervention of

Jesus Christ. There are now 92 children in the elementary school and the Church is starting to reach out and help

others.

Upon my return, I have been given the task of implementing a breakfast pro-

gram for the children. The average Dominican eats one meal a day. The chil-

dren need a good start to have the energy to focus and learn in both Church and

school. A lady named Maria with her six children from two previous marriages

was one family that had a particularly hard time. Her first husband drowned

and her second husband abandoned the family because of no work.

Naomi, the youngest child, was six pounds under weight, sick and struggling to

survive. So I paid the medical bills and bought food and medicine. To make a

long story short, I started playing baseball (their national sport) with the chil-

dren and fell in love with Maria and we were married two years ago. The chil-

dren are all growing and healthy now, especially since I got them off the water

system that sometimes had four different viruses. Now we only drink bottled

water.

The children all go to Church on Wednesdays and attend Sunday school classes. The three oldest graduated confir-

mation class this last January. All have been baptized and pray to Jesus about everything that comes into their lives.

Education is the ticket to a better life, and learning English as a second language can open opportunities for them.

My goal is to raise or save $8,000 dollars for passports, visas and plane tickets to bring my family to the United

States.

So please keep me, my family, the missionaries and the children in your

prayers (Maria, Jose, Yeni, Adoni, Delvi, Jeterli and Naomi) that the Lord

Jesus Christ will provide a way for all of us to be together and to help the

Dominican people grow in a personal relationship with Jesus. Amen

God Bless,

Van Wells

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Cape Coral, Florida 33915

We recently received this letter from an inmate of the Florida department of corrections:

Dear Mr. Willis,

Hello! I sincerely hope this letter finds you being blessed by our Father in Heaven daily.

In my last correspondence to you I had informed you that I was on my way back to Lee County for my

appeal. A few months have passed and I’m finally back from my appeal and settled in my new place of

residence, Calhoun Correctional Institution in Blountstown, Fl. I wanted to inform you of the outcome of

my appeal. Our blessed Father showed mercy and compassion on me and because of this, I received five

years off of my sentence, so currently, my release date is Jan 2016 which should eventually drop to mid

2015.

I received your newsletter from Jan. It was forwarded to me from Desoto. I always enjoy so much read-

ing the Ministries newsletter, and seeing what God is doing in then lives of others.

Ron, Mr. Willis, I’ve been writing to you for quite some time, and I imagine you may wonder why this is.

From the very first of hearing about you and your ministry several years ago, I have felt drawn to your

ministry. I’ll never forget how it affected me when I noticed that that every inmate in jail received a

Christmas card from your ministry. I believe that was Christmas of 2007.

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That gesture really touched my heart. After that, from time to time I had run into people who knew

you and always spoke so highly of your ministry. I wanted to know who the fellow Ron Willis was, so

I began writing you. I have tried to stay in contact with you over the years because I wanted you to get

to know me because one day I’m hoping to be a part of your ministry. Of course, none of us really have

any idea what the future holds, but one thing God has made clear to me is that his purpose for me is to

serve Him by serving others and I truly believe that is why God brought your ministry across my path.

The only thing I really know is that no matter if I’m inside the bars or outside the bars, I will spend the

rest of my earthly life serving my Lord and Savior.

Mr. Willis, I will close for now and ask you to keep me in your prayers. You and your ministry will

remain in my prayers.

God Bless You!

Richard

Praise the Lord! God is able to use us to change lives!

Praise God! He has changed Richard’s life!

Let’s allow God to use all of us to change lives!

Please keep Richard and others like him in your prayers!

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Dear Friends,

Amazing things can come about when we bring together all the resources of faith as small as a mustard

seed. But what good is faith if there are no works! James 2:18 says: Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith,

and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. 19.

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20. But wilt thou

know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Look, many times in our life time we face giants. We are so small compared to our dilemma. But, as

Christians our Lord and Savior has given us all we need to achieve the job that is set before us and over-

come all obstacles, but what good is this gift if we do not use it. We must be obedient servants and use

what God has given us to do the job. We must bind together to utilize the resources of us all. We all have

different abilities and spiritual gifts that need to be utilized in serving our Lord. United we stand or divided

we fall. Our Lord never meant us to be an island. We are stronger together. That is why the wicked one

will do all he can to cause distress, grief, hardship and pain between us. He knows that we are so much

more stronger together.

Satan uses people around us all the time. They can be your boss, friend, neighbor or even your family.

They will tell you “It can’t be done, it costs too much, your not smart enough, there are not enough re-

sources, who do you think you are, etc, etc, etc” only to keep you off the task that our Lord has set before

us. We can believe a lie or believe God.

The truth is we can do all things Matthew 19:26 says: But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With

men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matthew 21:22 says: And all things, whatso-

ever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Mark 9:23 says: Jesus said unto him, If thou canst

believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Together we encourage, strengthen, comfort and restore each other. Alone we become shark bate.

I pray our Lord will bring us all together as one unit; not as different faiths or religions, but as Christians on

fire for our Lord reaching the lost with the resources that our Lord has given us love, joy, peace, longsuffer-

ing, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance against such there is no law.

We stand at the cross roads of life. We can keep on doing what we are doing or change course and do

God’s will. With desire and determination, we can bring honor and glory to our Lord while serving the

lost, hurting people of this world.

Do not be afraid or intimated for our Lord is with us! We are the victors. With wholehearted obedience

and super natural strength we can do the impossible. Don’t just be a Christian, be a doer. Join the team and see

how our Lord can use you in mighty ways.

In the Presence of our LORD,

Ron Willis

Ron Willis, President

Love and Compassion Ministries, Inc.

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If you would like to be a part of our

exciting prayer team, please send us

your e-mail address and we will send

you updates of people who need our

prayers.

It is a great privilege that we have, as

sons and daughters of the KING, to be

able to come into HIS presence with

our needs, our hurts, and our cares.

We know that we can leave them at

HIS feet because HE cares for us and

will always answer us in our time of

need.

Prayer requests are very important to

us! We always need people who are

caring and willing to personally pray

for others’ needs.

As we pray for their physical, moral,

and spiritual needs, we must under-

stand that because of JESUS

CHRIST'S love for all of us, we are

able to do this. CHRIST is the answer

to every human's needs.

As members of the BODY of

CHRIST, we have the privilege and

responsibility to pray for our Church-

es, our missionaries, public officials,

other ministries, and each other.

It is so exciting to see prayers being

answered. May we always give

CHRIST the Glory!

PRAYER