Hello all, and Praise God. I have no news to report regarding Sabrina, we just keep praying that no news is good news and that since she was in a bad domestic situation that she may have “disappeared” on her own. We have been praying with and for John John. Overall he is probably better than you would expect. I guess that is the Peace that surpasses understanding at work. So continue to keep both John John and Sabrina in your prayers.

Well God is really working on every front to grow this ministry. In the past few weeks since I asked you for prayer, God has honored that and really pushed forward on many things. First thing is that He has provided help in the form of Pat Higgins, a college student here, who earlier this summer while on a mission trip in India had it laid on his heart by the Lord that when he get back he was to hand out sandwiches to people. Pat had no knowledge of what we have been doing here. So when Pat got back and was telling a co-worker about what had happened to him while he was away. The response Pat got was “there is a guy doing that right here, you need to get hooked up with him.” So I gladly hooked Pat up, and he has really taken things and ran with it. Pat will be in charge of organizing who goes out to deliver the sandwiches, for not one but now two times a week. So because of Pat’s obedience, the Lord has seen to grow this ministry from just Thursdays to Wednesdays as well. This is truly a blessing. Because as weeks went on it got harder and harder to serve the people we used to serve by driving around and the people we serve by staying put and having a bible study. Now the plan is that Pat takes a group of students, and sandwiches, and drives around on Wednesday, to develop or redevelop those relationships we have by driving around meeting and praying with people. This also gives the opportunity to let these new people know about the bible study we will still be having each Thursday. This then allows me, and a group of students, to go and teach and serve sandwich lunches at the Thursday bible study. So please be in prayer for this 100% expansion of this ministry.

Pat’s help also allows and frees me up to be obedient to the Lord’s calling and work to expand this ministry beyond St. Augustine. God has really provided for this by making a lot of big things happen very quickly. First, the corporation papers were processed with the state as well as the IRS, that provided us to open a bank account under the new corporation name of: The Sandwich Mission, Inc. We are unveiling the logo and mission statement below. The vision is that we “sandwich plant” this ministry in cities and towns where God has raised up people and placed it on their heart to do this ministry in their town. God will use us here in St. Augustine as a model, as counsel, as encouragement, and as support (both financially and spiritually) to these new leaders that he is raising up. A lot of people have the heart for missions, but lets face it not everyone can participate, we have jobs, we have families, we don’t have the time, money or courage to drop it all and get on a plane. But the wonderfully simple thing about the sandwiches is that it provides a way to do missions right here at home, right in your own backyard. The mission field starts right at your door. This is a way to reach out and do missions without dropping it all. Everyone can participate, whether it is through making the sandwiches or hitting the street to deliver that sandwiches and The Word. I love how Glenda has said it a number of times, “you feed us both physically and spiritually, what more do we need?”
Below is the Logo and Mission statement. I want you to note the verses referenced. The top is the Great Commandment

37Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[ 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.] 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40

The bottom verse is the The Great Commission
19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20

The Sandwich Mission is right in between the two striving to fulfill both.