Thunder Outreach helps take a BITE out of CRIME!

Hello again Mark,

Attached are some photos of our new K9 officer Kedra who you helped raise the money for and his handler Officer Conrad.  Kedra arrived from Holland in August of 2019 and after training @ Progressive K9 Academy, they were on the job in November of 2019. 

A little bio on Kedra:

Kedra is a 3 year old Belgium Malinois from Holland who holds a title in the Royal Dutch Police Dog sport KNPV. Earning a title in KNPV can take years of hard training and preparation. After arriving in the US, Kedra attended another two months of training with Officer Conrad at Progressive K9 Academy. Throughout his training, Kedra was certified on patrol and detection. Kedra can be utilized to locate the odors of narcotics and people along with excelling in his obedience apprehension work. We are happy to have Kedra as part of our department and wish him a successful career. 

If there is anything else we can do for you, please let me know.

Thanks again for all your help,

Ann

Ann M. Gery
Police Office Manager
North Coventry Township Police Department
845 S. Hanover Street     
Pottstown, PA  19465

P: 610-323-8360, F: 610-326-2925

agery@norcopd.org

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North Coventry PD Support letter for K9 Fundraiser

Thunder of Police Paws!!!!

We would like to invite you to join us this month to raise $20k and help take a Bite out of Crime!
We all know how Awesome K9 Police Dogs are and how they can save lives!

We are proud and excited to join with North Coventry Police Dept to buy, train and equip our next area K9 Police dog!

Our Goal is to raise $20,000 to cover all costs so that we can have this team focus on
buying the K9, training, equipment and getting the K9 ready to Protect and Serve our community!

Are you ready to join us

Here are the donation links to be a Gold, Silver or Bronze support!

Thunder Outreach events donate to Boyertown Area Multi Service a check for $3530.00

In the Spirit and Season of Giving and as a way to help support our area Veterans this winter,
 
Chaplain Mark Malizzi, Director of Thunder Outreach Ministries (Faith Based Community Charity programs) presented Steven K. McEwan – Executive Director of Boyertown Area Multi Service programs, a check for $3530.00 towards a special fund set up to help local veterans with food and humanitarian needs in our region.
 
This money was raised with the help of local charities and businesses working together including American Legion Post 471, Thunder Outreach, Boyertown Salvation Army, State Theatre of Boyertown and the Boyertown Area Multi-Service working together with many local businesses in November to host a Veterans Basket raffle and a live Veterans Concert with High Energy Faith and Family music from Heaven’s Thunder Band.
 
This is just one of the many events that Thunder Outreach has hosted and helped organize over the years in the region to help local families and charities in need.

Philadelphia SOUL Supports events with tickets and more

CAN YOU SAY SOUL FOOTBALL !!!! Yes, that is right the 3-time world champs are helping be a part of helping us support our veterans!! Over $500 in Gear, Signed stuff, tickets and more! This is great stuff with lots of Philadelphia Soul!!

Heaven’s Thunder Band at Rise 2018 at Morgantown Community Church

Listening to my friend Mark Malizzi and Heaven’s Thunder Band “Rocking the House” at Rise 2018 at Morgantown Community Church.

Kudos to Joe Barszowski for putting this together. If you’re anywhere near Morgantown come on over. There’s 3 or 4 more bands till around 10pm.


Helping Local Veteran’s in need

Veterans need our support!
As a US ARMY Veteran and networking with the Boyertown American Legion Post 471 and other area programs we are excited to be a part of helping local Veterans in need this fall.

Our Benefit Concert “For God and Country” will do more than talk about helping local Vets as we plan to try to raise over $5000 this year to be put in a local Boyertown PA. Veteran’s Fund with the help of the Boyertown Multi-Services programs.   You can buy tickets to the event for $20 , or you can make a $50 or $100 donation on line on this website!

We invite you to be a part of putting the troops on the ground and making this need conquered !

Thank you and God Bless!

Thank you from the Reading Fightin Phils baseball team

I wanted to thank you and everyone at Thunder Outreach and Heaven Thunder’s Band again for partnering with us for the annual First Responder Appreciation game last night. Without great partners like Thunder Outreach, it would be very tough to have the many great events and games that we have here at FirstEnergy Stadium.

It was great working with you, Lisa, and the entire crew of Heaven’s Thunder. You guys did an awesome job and I hope everyone had a great time!

If you are interested in coming out this season again for any game, feel free to let me know at any time. You and your family/friends are always welcome!

We greatly value our relationship with Thunder Outreach and look forward to working together for seasons to come!

From the Reading Fightin Phils, thank you again for your sponsorship and see you soon at the ballpark!

Sincerely,

Anthony Pignetti
Director of Business Development
Reading Fightin Phils Baseball
Proud A.A. Affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies
610-375-8469 ext 223
apigneti@fightins.com

First Responder Appreciation day at GT with Thunder Outreach

THIS WILL BE A VERY POWERFUL DAY !!!
After last events with our friend Pastor Bryan, You will NOT want to miss this!!Join us as we honor our First Responders on Sunday, .Responding in the time of crisis can be difficult. Together we will explore practical steps for coming alongside people when they are facing a crisis.

10am at Kutztown (http://gtkutztown.com/)
9am & 11am at West Lawn (http://gtaog.org/)

Save the date MAY 22- 2016 and help us say Thank you to our area First Responders!

A Message of Hope
BY BRYAN KOCH on MARCH 22, 2016 IN RECENT ARTICLES

June 7th started like any other Sunday. Bryan and Lynn Koch got up and went to church, where Bryan kicked off GT’s newest series with a message honoring first responders. After church, they headed home, had a bite to eat, and then Lynn suggested they go out for a motorcycle ride. The couple headed out later that afternoon to one of their favorite spots… the Pretzel Hut in Lancaster, and chatted about life change and about the new role of grandparent that they’d be assuming later that year.

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Shortly after 6pm, Bryan and Lynn turned onto Grange Road, just minutes from home. Moments later, an SUV crossed the center line, hitting them and pinning Bryan and the bike under its front left tire, and killing Lynn. Bryan was taken by helicopter to Reading Hospital, where over the course of the next 51 days, he would undergo 19 surgeries and receive 36 units of blood while he fought for his life. Bryan’s injuries ranged from broken bones to bruising, but the worst was the amputation of his left leg.

Throughout those 51 days, Bryan’s three sons, Ben, Bryce, and Brett, along with the rest of the Koch family and GT, would wait and pray first for Bryan to pull through each procedure, and eventually, to wake up. On August 8th, his 28th wedding anniversary, Bryan finally went home from the hospital, and on Sunday, October 18th, he preached his first sermon back on the GT stage.

Unknown-4 Despite doctors’ warning him that he had a long recovery ahead and that he might be ready to be fitted for a prosthetic leg around Christmas of 2016, Bryan miraculously reached his next milestone early and was able to walk out on the stage during this year’s Christmas Eve services.

June 7th was a day that changed my life forever. Before June 7th, my testimony included a story about how I lost sight in one eye while playing minor league baseball. After June 7th, that story changed and began to include how I lost my leg and my wife while doing one of the things I enjoyed most…riding my motorcycle.

When I returned to GT on October 18th, I preached the closing message in our fall series, “EPIC.” The series had been planned long before the accident and it just so happened that the closing message would focus on the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. Here they were, the entire nation of Israel, at the foot of the Red Sea with the Egyptian army close behind. They where between a rock and a hard place. And what does God do? He parts the sea, and they walk right through.

Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters—a pathway no one knew was there!
If God brings you to it, He’ll bring you through it. All we need to do is remember what
God did in our past, look for God in our present, and trust God with our future. – Psalm 77:19

Fast forward a bit and you’ll find those same Israelites wandering around in the hot, dry desert, complaining that God hasn’t delivered them into the Promised Land, forgetting God’s past provision. The problem is, they were living in the future instead of seeking God in their present. They couldn’t be patient and wait for God’s plan to unfold, and like the psalmist says in Psalm 106, “but soon they forgot what He had done and did not wait for His plan to unfold. In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wilderness they put God to the test.”

The Israelites learned the power of forgetting and the problem with sameness. When you’re in a difficult season, it’s all too easy to focus on your circumstances and what’s happening right now. Trust me, I know! The past seven months have undoubtedly been some of the hardest I’ve ever been through. Facing the birth of our first grandson without Lynn, and then going through the holidays without her was hard. And it could have been easy to wonder where God is in all of this.

But there’s importance in remembering, when you’re walking in the deepest of valleys, the things that God has done in your past. And there’s hope and joy in seeking out the ways God is working in your present pain. If biblical hope is confident expectation and biblical joy is intentional, incarnational, and eternal, then being hopeful and joyful in hard circumstances is a choice. We wake up each day and have to make the choice to find hope and joy in the ways God is working in the present, because whether we can see it or not, He has already made a way through it.

Haba Na Haba

There’s a Swahili proverb that uses the phrase “Haba Na Haba,” which translates to “little by little” and has become something of a motto for me through these past few months. In times of blinding pain and grief, in times of great difficulty, when we reach those hard places, God brings us through. We might not see the big picture and we might not know the path, but little by little, He guides us.

Our Theme for 2016 is:

“Blessing those who Protect and Service our Communities”

We will personally be at Glad Tidings Church in Reading Pa. for 2 special morning services at 9 and 11 for “First Responders Appreciation Sunday” .

Plus if your are a First Responder, We are asking you to bring your teams Fire truck or Police car if you can, and feel free to come in uniform if you like so we can properly Thank you !

and please Pass this on to all the First Responders and their families also! We want to FILL the place and say Thank you in a BIG WAY !!! 🙂

After each service we will have a table set up for you to visit with us and pick up your free tickets to the Special Reading Phils game.

Go to www.thunderoutreach.com for more info!

See you there !!! God Bless

 

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On behalf of the Reading Royals, I want to thank Thunder Outreach and Heaven’s Thunder band

On behalf of the Reading Royals, I want to thank Thunder Outreach and Heaven’s Thunder band for their unwavering support and generosity to not only our organization, but the community as a whole. Their members have been extremely considerate and supportive throughout every event we have planned together. They are extremely easy to work with and are always looking to make things bigger and better in the future. We look forward to their many years of ongoing support, and we cannot wait to hear their great music at a Reading Royals game again next season!

Thanks again for everything you do!

Dakota Procyk
Reading Royals

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Reading Fightin Phils Baseball enjoys working with Thunder Outreach…

“I’ve worked with Mark Malizzi and Thunder Outreach for the last 4 seasons on various events at the ballpark, such as our annual First Responder Appreciation Day. Mark has been an excellent spokesperson for First Responders in the Tri-County Area and through his partnership with the Fightin Phils, thousands of local First Responders have been able to enjoy a wonderful family day at the ballpark each year! During the game, area First Responders are recognized for all the great work they provide in our community! Through Thunder Outreach, Mark Malizzi has been able to provide wonderful events and outreach to local organizations and charities and has been a great partner of the Fightin Phils that we hope to work together with for seasons to come!”  – Anthony Pignetti, Director of Business Development, Reading Fightin Phils Baseball

 

Anthony Pignetti

Director of Business Development

Reading Fightin Phils Baseball

Proud A.A. Affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies

610-375-8469 ext 223

apignetti@fightins.com

 

The Reading Fightin Phils’ FirstEnergy Stadium has been named:

  • # 1 Minor League Baseball destination in all of Pennsylvania – Stadium Journey
  • Third-best Minor League Ballpark in the United States – USA TODAY Travel Media
  • America’s # 1 Classic Ballpark in all of the Minor Leagues – Baseball America
  • Best Ballpark in the Minor Leagues – digitalballparks.com