dead in our trespasses

From God, Through You… To Whom?

For we are his

workmanship,

created in Christ

Jesus for good

works, which God

prepared

beforehand,

that we should walk in them.

I used the money from the envelope and some of my own money to buy tennis shoes and socks for one of my students who is a refugee from Burma. - Jenni Mansell

I’d noticed one week that his shoes were falling apart. The next week he was wearing soccer cleats to school and said his mom threw the other pair away, so his only shoes were soccer cleats. I think he appreciates having new gym shoes now.

I’d noticed one week that his shoes were falling apart. The next week he was wearing soccer cleats to school and said his mom threw the other pair away, so his only shoes were soccer cleats. I think he appreciates having new gym shoes now.

I’d noticed one week that his shoes were falling apart. The next week he was wearing soccer cleats to school and said his mom threw the other pair away, so his only shoes were soccer cleats. I think he appreciates having new gym shoes now.

We gave the money to my husband’s nephew who is in financial need.

- Heather and Britt King

We gave it to Heidi Lyda, director of LYN House, an eastside Indy ministry to bless someone in her community “above and beyond.”

- Chad and Kim Davis

I gave it to a neighbor who has lost his job and who is discouraged.

- Elyce Elder

I sent it along to a fellow who feeds the men in a Celebrate Recovery Group every week.

- Jeff Sparks

I used it to increase my monthly gift to Wheeler Mission, which I have found to really change lives.

- David Young

I gave it to my mentoree from Outreach, Inc. She had her clothes stolen.

- anonymous

We bought a giant sandwich, chips and a coke at Jimmy John’s and enclosed a note with Scripture from John and gave it to a homeless man downtown.

- Kelly Wilson and Tim Porter

Mid-September we took a vacation to Virginia Beach, to attend my 20-year high school reunion. I decided to take the Mercy money with us, thinking we might run across a need while we were away. I visited my home church, Providence Friends, on a Sunday,. The pastor announced that the "Good Samaritan" fund, that the church uses to assist people in need, was running low. I looked at Ryan and asked if he wanted to give the $20 to that fund, and he agreed, so that's where it went.

- Melodi Miller

In 2008, Darryl’s home was damaged by storms. He needed assistance.

In 2012, Darryl Fraylon was able to pass the money in his envelope on to The Red Cross.

I bought two musical cards , with an encouraging and funny message for two people I know who could use a good laugh and who enjoy humor. Laughter might not be the best medicine, but it is good medicine.

- Kathy Matthews

I bought a bouquet of flowers to give to my mother’s beautician, Betty who kindly agreed to come to my mother’s nursing home every two weeks to fix her hair.

- Mary VanHoy

Gas money for a young guy who was stuck. His car had run out of gas, his credit card wasn’t working. He needed money for gas to get back to college in Terre Haute.

- Garrett Clemmer

Our friend without a place to live or a job needed a battery for her cell phone so that she could receive calls from potential employers.

- Doug and Nancy Jesch

The $30 from Pay Mercy Forward saved the lives of two children. I used $20 to buy an antibiotic for a very sick baby with pneumonia whose parents could not afford the medicine that she really needed from the pharmacy. Pneumonia is the biggest cause of death in childrenworldwide. As a pediatrician, I am certain that this baby would have died without the medicine that she needed. This baby’s name was Mercy, and I am grateful that this gift of mercy from Redeemer was there to save her life.

I used the remaining $10 to buy another antibiotic and oral rehydration therapy for a toddler who had terrible dehydration because of diarrhea. Diarrhea is another common killer of kids, coming in second only to pneumonia. This little 2-year-old came to the rural clinic surrounded by sugar cane fields when she was almost too sick, almost too late. But the medicine and the rehydration therapy were able to save her too.

- Rachel Vreeman

We bought supplies and OTC meds for the Dayspring Center. We had the girls help us pick out some things and included some fun books to give the center as well.

- The Fosters

We used the money to buy groceries to make two meals. One for our neighbors and the second for a co-worker of Ryan’s who just had a baby.

- Ryan and Kate Brumbaugh

With some friends, we prepared and served a meal for some men from Wheeler Mission.

- Peter Davis, Brittany Kiel

I brought coffee and lunch to a friend who was stuck inside with a croupy child. I also took dinner to a family in our parish who just had a baby.

- Kristen Clemmer

We used it to plan our 2nd

neighborhood cul-de-sacparty, a time to eat dinnerwith and get to know thosewho live physically close tous.

- Peter and Jenny Baenziger

I put the money towards a community meal at our transitional house.

- Scott Sluder

Shepherd’s Pie and Pineapple Upside Down Cake on Guilford.

Our family decided to put all our money together to feed the Tech HS football team ($120). This is a very tangible way that we can love on these kids, support the coaches, and be "family" toward these youth when many of their families aren't able to step in in this way.

- The Dorseys

- Jason Dorsey

I invited my Gospel 101 class to support me and rally around me in my particular calling as an "urban father."

We gave two copies of Letters to My Unborn Children away – 1 to a friend who suffered two traumatic miscarriages and is now unable to have children; 1 to a high school friend who asked for a copy to give to a friend who is grieving a recent abortion. - Shawn and Kristine Collins

I took a beloved co-worker from a previous job out to lunch. She was able to vent her frustrations which allowed me to be a listener for her.

- Justin Perry

As time passed, it came clearly to me to use it to both ease a wrong I personally committed , causing hurt feelings and ease their financial stress.

- Tierney Destophano

We brainstormed how to spend the total of $40 to blesssomeone. Some friends of our quickly came to mind, asthey have endured significant suffering over the pastseveral months. The loss of a job, two cancer diagnoses,and two surgeries in the last 6 months coupled withcaring for very young children has taken a toll of them.We decided to bless them with a gift card for a localrestaurant and free baby-sitting. They were thrilledafter we presented our idea to them and humblyaccepted the offer. Its a joy to see the Lord using this"abundance" money to give this couple a sweetevening together.

- anonymous

We bought our downstairs neighbor an Amazon gift card. His autistic son has been in and out of the hospital recently, so we thought he could use some new reading material on his Kindle during his visits.

- Charles and Danielle

We put our envelopes together and bought a grocery gift card for a single, young mom that we have been trying to help and bless as often as possible.

- David and Jessica Rossi

We purchased two $5 Jimmy John’s gift cards and we provided one card to a young girl living on the streets and one to a Vietnam veteran.

- Larry David Pasco

We purchased six food cards and we found six people who live on the streets and we provided the food cards.

- Theresa Lynn McCorkle

We purchased a WalMart gift card for a family that is in need.

- Jessica, Lauren, Francoise Edwards

We got eight $10 gift cards from Calvin Fletcher’s. Our idea was to hand them out to construction workers and librarians in Fountain Square.

- The Aalsmas

I thought about who I would give this card to and I wanted to give it to you! It’s $10 to Calvin Fletcher’s!

- Merritt Aalsma

A New Way of Life, a ministry to the homeless and a transitional housing facility, is selling Red Panda coffee as a fundraiser. Nancy Simon bought four lbs. and is going to use the coffee now at various events and social gatherings to tell people about this ministry.

The Vanests also visited A New Way of Life to purchase Red Panda coffee from Floyd Wimbush

And then distributed the bags of coffee to….

… our neighbors on Sanders Street.

Miss Kim, Phoenix’ momHiro’s uncle

Uncle Travis & Aunt Amy The Abners from DAT House

Aleesha

Elyce

I noticed a woman with fabric squares stitching them together by hand. Later when driving home on E. Washington, something (Someone?) told me to stop at a Flea Market. Upon walking in, the first aisle beckoned me straight to the back where a Singer Sewing Machine sat. I purchased it for the woman I had noticed who was quilting by hand.

- Ann Moore

I bought a MOPS membership for the MOPS leaders to give away for a mother of

pre-schoolers to participate in the bi-monthly meetings at Redeemer.

- Meg Huber

My community group pooled our resources to get a bike for my roommate Connie Kauffman (who is also in our community group). She had been borrowing one and she was sad when she had to give it up. She was so excited to go out and buy a bike.

- Sara Gibson

We restocked our supply of hats, gloves, and gas cards that we keep in our trunk to give to people we meet and pray with on the side of the road.

- Peter and Jenny Baenziger

Doug Kiel was able to buy a guitar to give to a child who wants to learn to play.

I will pass on my love for music, so that he/she might be able Glorify God with it.

I made thank-you bags for five volunteers and three staff at two IPS schools after they had logged 34 hours of interpreting for parent-teacher conferences.

- Amy Meyer

Our community group pooled our money to buy supplies to make welcome baskets for new residents in east side neighborhoods. We all will pass out one basked as new neighbors move in.

- Warner/Sadek community group

We received $170 in our envelopes and donated all of that to Project Love which is a ministry of Horizon Central Fellowship. Barbara was actually able to get matching funds from Aetna, the company she used to work for.

- Vernon Marsh, Barbara Van Vleet

and Adrienne Marsh

She and I and Adrienne volunteered last Sunday after church to help organize and give out food to people who came to Horizon Central . They have a distribution the 4th Sunday of every month. They also have a large clothing giveaway ministry as well.

Catham Commons located at East and St. Clair is a beautiful green space we enjoy -along with a variety of other dog-walkers, sunbathers, and picnickers. One of the orange lawn chairs went missing…

- The Streeter Family

…and we gifted our $50 to help replace it.

Alex and Max: Restoring Seats for the Public Good

My Dad drove to work each day

English Avenue boys club on his way

Winter was coming, cold and gray

He saw the boys outside

Their hands cold as ice

Wouldn’t it be nice

To have gloves when they play.

His Chevy each year held mittens all sizes

Those boys thought they had been given prizes.

Daddy is now gone, generous and kind

But 2 daughters he raised with his love in mind.

I thank the deacons, for each year I find

Mittens and socks for those not inside.- anonymous

Now this year a few more I buyDaddy, I try…

To be generous and kind.

Vanessa and I were talking about what to do with our money from the mercy ministry, and she mentioned getting something for the kids that Luna visits. Luna is a licensed therapy dog now, and we make visits to Wheeler Mission and The Julian Center every week.

- Sandy Blanton and Vanessa Hast

I talked to the Children's Coordinator at Wheeler today and she said they wanted to take the kids on a picnic to Garfield Park over Fall Break. They were very excited to have some extra money to buy food and treats.

- Sandy Blanton and Vanessa Hast

Our daughter, Jackie, has a couple girls that she’s friends with across the street. Their parents recently divorced and their mom is in school and working nights. The kids live with their mom at the grandparents home.

We used our money to

bring the girls to church

with us and treat them to

pizza at Bazbeaux afterwards.- the Hall family

One family who received $250 in their envelope went back and forth about an individual or an organization. In the end they did both. A young man they have mentored and walked with as he cared for his aging grandparents and his own son is being forced to move through foreclosure. The money they gave him will hopefully ease the transition.

They also gave a sum of money to a local IPS school designated toward programs that develop social and emotional skills in the students.

That is what the Greens had to decide. In the end, they

• Donated supplies to Life Centers/Crisis Pregnancy Centers

• Donated gas cards to Young Life student (college kids) leaders at Arsenal Tech

•Donated to School 15 for severe disabilities, enabling them to take 20 students on an outing to the Children’s Museum

•Donated to a program for preliminary research to assist convicts in the successful completion of probation.

cold without mittens

or tired with no chair to rest in

or hungry without a meal

or stranded with no transportation

or jobless and losing hope

or sick without a cure

and dead in our trespasses...

by his great mercy, God

From God, Through You… To Whom?