Yard Sale!
Date- September 7 & 8
Time- 7am – 3pm
Location-
2605 Ballentine Blvd Norfolk
There will be 3 warehouses full of amazing items set out on the lawn of the Men’s Discipleship House. We have tons of furniture and household goods. Tell your friends and come on out and find a treasure. All proceeds go back into the ministry as we are still raising money for the future Ann Skinner Women and Children’s Home.
Toy Ministry!
It is about that time. People are already requesting help. We will need many volunteers this season. If you are interested in volunteering, please bring a letter of reference from your Pastor so we can get you trained and ready. We have openings for every level of ability. This is a great opportunity to see people impacted by the love of Christ. Be prepared to shed some tears. Helping those that cannot help themselves is really the heart of this ministry.    

Mission Malawi!
God has given us an awesome opportunity to help people in Malawi with basic needs. We were able to rent a field for $25 for the entire year to plant vegetables. The field has the capability of feeding 100 people for the entire year. It would be great if all life’s problems could have such an easy fix. We are currently purchasing 30 chickens for them to start raising for eggs and meat. The cost of chickens there is about $3 each. As you can see their hope has been restored. They are hard workers and willing to put in the labor. The photo of the people working in the fields are all Pastors. Jesus is very popular to these sweet people.
 

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​Pastors Working the Field!
 

​Men in Program Update!
Two of our graduates that are currently employed full-time are looking for a room to rent. They have both been here over a year and we can vouch for them. They are very responsible, hard workers desiring a room in a Christian home with godly accountability. We assure you they will be a blessing. One of the men is hoping to find a place near his church in Virginia Beach near Lynnhaven. The other is employed at the shipyard and would like to be near work as he is still working towards getting his license. He is hoping to be in the South Norfolk area. If you have a room for rent, please contact us and we will pass along the information.

Progress!
We are super excited about the huge amount of support for our Ann Skinner Women and Children’s Home. We will keep a graph of our progress. We mean “our” progress as an entire body of Christ because without all of us working together with the Lord, it would not be possible. We are off to an incredible start, but we still have a long way to go. We are in need of additional fund raising ideas, maybe getting more churches involved. This is an opportunity for the church as a whole to get involved in meeting the needs of our neighbors in a tangible way. This is a true example of Christianity. People have started counting on the government more than the body of Christ to meet their needs so this is a prime opportunity to show people the love of Christ. Let’s continue to sow into this project. We believe God is opening even better opportunities and we will keep you posted. We have raised about $14,000 so we still have a ways to go.

Missions!
We are also doing our part internationally and are excited to be a part of sending a missionary to the Philippines. Her name is Miriam and has been there several times building relationships and planting seeds. Many have been won to the Lord and this time the plan is to plant a church. Please keep her in your prayers. She will be there for five months.
We are also doing some things in Malawi Africa to provide for the huge needs of the people. We will post pictures soon of the progress transforming lives and meeting needs there.
Hotel to A Place of their Own!
We are happy to be a part of blessing this family. This family was struggling in a hotel with no possible way out. Every dollar was going to pay for the room just to keep a roof over their heads. This precious mom trusted us to provide food and basics for her three adorable children. We furnished her place and stocked her refrigerator and helped with the deposit. God is always so good.
Weekend Encounters
We are preparing to send several men and women on a Weekend Encounter that is like a retreat on steroids. They will encounter the Lord, learn how to process events in their pasts and leave them firmly in the past. They will understand forgiveness and be able to forgive the hurts of the past and also receive forgiveness for the things they may have done to wrong others. It is a very freeing weekend that is a big part of our own testimonies. Last year it was an amazing time for many as about 17 people experienced redemption and a closer walk with the Lord with a deeper understanding of the Father’s love for all. They came out dreaming bigger dreams for their futures and unhindered by bondages.
 
Phillip Delain
One of our former residents and recent graduate is doing extremely well in New Jersey. He has recently gotten his driver’s license. He is the drummer in his church’s worship band. He is gainfully employed as a forklift operator and he is being a blessing to his family back home. He is a great success story of what God can do. He is helping to support his elderly mother and continuing to share the Lord everywhere he goes. He is a fruit of this ministry and your investment.

Urgent Ministry Need!
We have a huge ministry need at this time. After praying and fasting we have decided to bring this need to our supporters because we know that together, we can accomplish much more than trying to do it on our own. Since taking over this ministry, you have seen things miraculously fall into place for us over and over again. God has been so gracious to pour out favor over this ministry time after time. We know we have learned a lot with running the men’s discipleship home for over a year now. We have proven to be good stewards of every blessing from God. The ministry is still debt free and we are committed to remaining debt free. We know that what we are doing is impacting lives and transforming situations that seemed hopeless.
We have enjoyed learning as we go in this ministry and now we are ready to take yet another leap of faith. The biggest need in all of Hampton Roads is a place for women and children. There are month’s long waiting lists at every shelter and the opening of the new shelter in Virginia Beach is barely going to touch it because they will only have seven openings for women with children. We turn away at least 3 women with children every week, and last week there were 3 in one day. We have been praying on this for a while now and we believe there is a do-able solution. We are asking for something that will be impossible but for God!
 Steps to Take!
We have Scarlette Ballard as our Women’s Ministry Director. She is ready to step out of the world’s workplace and come on board full time to live at our women and children’s home to disciple these ladies around the clock. Scarlette was in the Marine Corp so she is definitely tough enough and we have seen her gifting over the last year as she has been counseling the men in the program and developing goal plans and course corrections. She has faithfully served alongside us and is fully committed to seeing this through as a missionary.
We will take women with a cycle of poverty, addiction or sin. We will use the first 30 days to submerge them in a strict discipleship program that teaches them how to fully rely on the Lord. We will surround them with Christian teachings and work on overcoming the poverty mind set. A lot of these ladies do not know any other way, because this is the only example they have ever seen. They have seen their mothers and grandmothers  be forced to live off the system and just scrape by and they just cannot envision any other way because they hadn’t been given a different option. We will help them see there is another way by having a powerful impact, through testimonies of women who have been where they are and have gained the victory over their circumstances. We will obtain grant money to give them some short term schooling that will qualify them to earn higher wages. We will also get grant money to put their children in daycare and to provide their first month’s rent and security deposit in their own place when they are ready. Our furniture ministry will help them set up with nothing lacking.
Where you come in!
God has given us a very easy answer to this problem. The building right next to our current discipleship home has come available. Actually every tenant moved out yesterday. We have been offered the first chance to purchase this home and we will meet with the city planners office this week to see what we need to do to get this house a permit to do what we do. We will do everything by the book. When they told us they want $225,000 for the house, We were looking at the cost and measuring what we have and it became a huge obstacle in our minds, then we remembered who our father is and reminded ourselves that there is nothing impossible when he gives you a task. We do have some money in the bank, but we know as we learned in the first ministry house, there are many things that come up after the purchase, permits, insurances and such so we are setting a goal to accomplish this in one month. Of course our family will give to this cause also. We are asking for support but this is going to be easy for a bunch of miracle believing Christians. We send this newsletter to 1000 people.                                  
​Simple Solution!
If every person were able to give $200 we will have a home that should be able to help about 100 women and children per year. I know some of our supporters support us in prayer only, because of a lack of finances, but I believe others will be able to pick up the slack. If just 200 people gave $1000 each, the home is in place. I know there are some very generous people that will step up and make this dream a reality. Imagine being part of transforming so many lives for the kingdom of God. Tangible ways you can help-
1.      Share the need with people you know. We will always make ourselves available to come share.
2.      Follow us on Facebook and share the post about the need for the house.
3.      Post about us on social media and draw others into being part of the solution.
4.      Share our newsletter with friends and family.
Together we can! With the Lord, there is nothing impossible. Please make every check this month have Women’s Home in the memo. We will use savings to pay the bills. We need every dollar to go to this house for this need. God willing next month’s newsletter will be a miraculous testimony of God’s faithful provision!!!

Graduation Time!!!
Hallelujah! We are ready to celebrate our three great success stories from the last year. We are inviting everyone to join us for a time of celebration and testimony of what God is doing in the lives of these amazing men. Please come out and show your support. It will mean so much to these guys and to us as well.
Ceremony Date:  This  Friday  June 8th
Time:     7pm
Location:
Kingdom World Outreach Center
4221 Pleasant Valley Road
Suite 133
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
Refreshments and hors devours provided.
Graduates:
David Cubitt
David Lee
Phillip Delain
 
We will allow a time of testimony for any friend’s of the ministry that would like to  share some stories about how you have seen the Lord transform these men.
 
 
New Men’s Ministry Director!​
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This is nothing short of God’s divine answer to our prayers. He sent a missionary to run our Men’s Discipleship Program. Bryan Wells is answering the call God has placed on his life by coming alongside us in our endeavor to see men healed from past hurts and become victorious over every kind of stronghold. We are so pleased to have him with us in this journey. He is excited to get to work and he has many fresh new ideas for the program. Please make him feel welcome and you can meet him at the upcoming men’s graduation.
 
Information
As Bryan takes over the day to day operations of the Men’s Discipleship House, this will free up some of our time so we can focus on getting the Women and Children’s Program up and going. We are excited to see exactly how God is going to work this out, because it will take a miracle. We know that God did not place this on our heart for no reason. We know he has a plan to bring it to pass. We will keep moving our feet and do our best and trust that he will handle the rest. Please continue to gather support for this ministry. We are thankful for the new Bible Study groups that are supporting us now. We want you all to be the first to know that we have openings in our Men’s Program. We want your family members to have first shot at filling out applications before we post it publicly on social media. We have 3 new guys coming over the next couple months and some that will be moving on after graduation. If you know anyone that could benefit from this, have them reach out to apply. If you want to hear the amazing testimonies of what your financial support has meant for the lives of these 3 graduates, please show up at their graduation ceremony. We assure you that we are committed to their great success and we cannot do it without you. We will be frugal along the way and remain debt free while offering them many amazing experiences and firsts. These men have grown and changed so much! Thank you for being a part of this.
 
     John and Tammy Savola
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Ministry Needs
1.      We are still in need of a venue to host our banquet where we will give you the ability to envision the future of Outreach for Christ.
2.      We are in need of a couple reliable vehicles as we have some drivers ready to help out with the ministry errands.
3.      We are in need of some construction work at the current men’s discipleship house.
4.      We would like to start a worship night once a month. We need some talented worship leaders to help us start.
5.      We would like some people to participate in mission days with us. We will provide the mission. We just need some willing participants to hang out with us for a few hours once in a while to love on the homeless.
6.      As always, we are in need of increased financial donations to go towards are upcoming Women and Children’s Home. We will share the vision at the banquet.
7.      We are in need of more volunteers in the Norfolk area.
 
Answered Prayers
We want to thank you for praying for our needs especially when we know everyone has needs. We are grateful for the prayers of refreshing. We believe we will be sharing an exciting answer to prayer in the next newsletter. We also have some to share now. We are so blessed to have a very over qualified tutor for our 10 year old son. He is getting the help he needs and it is quite miraculous how that came to pass. It could only be answered prayer. Also, thank you for praying for our family. There are times of difficulty that sometimes seem unbearable. Sometimes we get the urge to give up and then we are reminded that we gave our lives to the Lord to do with whatever he wants. Your prayers of refreshing have been a blessing. Just when we feel like we cannot go any further, God sends someone alongside to help. So we continue to fight the good fight of faith and put our trust in God to do the things we physically cannot.
 

 
Logistics
We are learning as we go. We have the Bible as our handbook and a willingness to do whatever God has planned. We don’t have any idea what the end result will be, but we know we are in the best hands. We have prayer warriors covering every step in prayer and interceding for this ministry. We truly believe this type of ministry is filled with people who are committed to being the hands and feet of Jesus. We are blessed that so many people have a burden to see souls won to the kingdom. Evangelism is a much needed talent in this ministry. We truly believe that Jesus is the answer to every single life problem and we have so many opportunities everyday to give this answer to those that need him. Please pray that we never get caught up in the busy-ness of ministry that we are not ministering. Wayne Skinner showed us the importance of just loving on the people and being there when it seems nobody else is. We have learned to relate to people we normally would have nothing in common with. We make an effort to find some common ground and to attempt to see things from their perspectives. Please pray that the Lord keeps us humble enough to always be able to care where people are coming from and caring enough to always pray for them to walk in the blessing that comes only from knowing, intimately our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
     John and Tammy Savola
​Together we can!
If you are thinking of giving extra this month, you can label it to go towards the women’s program. We are short of the money needed, but we know we can accomplish this with everyone working together!

Ministry Openings for Volunteers!
1.      We are looking for an intern interested in going into full time ministry and learning with on the job training. To start, this would be an unpaid position with free room and board, meals and transportation. If you know of someone that is interested in this type of ministry, please send them our way.
2.      We are in need of a volunteer that is gifted in administration. We need someone that can answer phone calls and emails and help us adhere to our schedule.
3.      We are looking for several volunteers that can commit to a regular schedule, whether it be 4 hours every week, or 40.
4.      We also need help with the food pantry in Norfolk as we have a huge need in that area. We need help separating the food when it comes in and packaging it for give away.
 
Banquet!
We have not found a location for the banquet. We are in need of a facility that can accommodate 200 people. Please help us out with this.
​Ministry Needs
We are experiencing growing pains. We have gotten to a place in the ministry where we realize that we cannot do everything ourselves. We desire to step into more of an administrator role as we bring in more people to do the one on one ministering. We are looking for people interested in coming in to lead Bible Studies, Fellowship Nights, Movie Nights, etc. We really need some committed people to come and just be examples of Victorious Christian Living. If you have a heart to see people come out of the darkness and into the light, I am sure we can find a perfect way for you to volunteer. Our men need help with all kinds of living skills. Maybe you could teach an etiquette class or school them in ironing a suit or tying a tie. We could do a cooking class or how to sew a button. There is a huge need for life skills that were not taught to them earlier in life. You may be gifted in conflict resolution or effective communication. These are huge needs for our residents. We want to give them the best chance of success when they leave the program. We are in a spot right now where we need help and we are asking that you prayerfully consider giving a block of time every week. It could be just 2 hours every week. We would also like to start a night of worship once a month at the Discipleship House in Norfolk. Please feel free to contact us about any of these things that may be stirring in your heart. Help us to better help them.
 
Prayer Needs
Please pray for our family as we are in need of refreshing. We know God called us to do this and we desire to be found faithful. We continue to persevere and strategize about how we can find balance in this busy lifestyle. We love what we are doing and are committed to using the remainder of our days to bring as many people into Christian Maturity as possible.
We could also use a reading tutor for our 10 year old son. We do not want our children to struggle because of our busy-ness. We need someone that is willing to make a connection with him and see it through. 

​Crime Prevention Award
Outreach for Christ is making waves in the Ballentine Place community. We were given a crime prevention award at the community’s banquet. They said we are doing an amazing job in the community and the award was in recognition of how we take people that used to be part of the problem into becoming part of the solution. We took 3 of the men from the Discipleship Program with us to the banquet. They looked great and interacted well with the community. We gently guided them in how to handle themselves at this public affair after it became obvious to us that maybe they had never attended a banquet before. This had been overlooked by us until then. We never want them to feel self conscious or inadequate in their surroundings. We believe these men are making tremendous steps towards their great futures. We are looking for ways to incorporate some home training into their wealth of knowledge. If anyone feels comfortable in sharing with them, we would welcome a quarterly etiquette class from miss manners. We want them to know which fork to use and which glass is theirs in a busy full table setting. We really need help with the small things as we find ourselves too busy to cover everything needed for their great success. Please contact us in how you will be willing to help. These men are truly delightful to be around. They are polite and compassionate, not at all scary or intimidating.

 
Together we can!
We are so grateful for each of you. We could never accomplish anything without you all in our corner. You make this journey even sweeter as we overcome many challenges.
     John and Tammy Savola
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