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Eastern Berks-Boyertown Area First Responders Appreciation Sunday

We will personally be at Morningstar Fellowship in Bechtelsville Pa. for a special “First Responders Appreciation Sunday” at 9am and 11am!

 

Save the date and help us say Thank you to our area First Responders!

Our Theme  is:
“Blessing those who Protect and Service our Communities”

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 on July 22.

Go to www.thunderoutreach.com for more info!

See you there!!!
God Bless

“Feed an ARMY” Benefit Concert is SOLD OUT !!!!

Hello Friends!!  We are SOLD OUT for this event!!!  I am sorry!!  Thank you all so Much!!!

 

Come out and help us “Feed an Army!”… of families with the help of The Salvation Army!
That’s right, we’re coming back to the State Theatre of Boyertown to help provide food donation funds for the Salvation Army of Boyertown!

 

Important Update!!! We now have a supporter will to match the value of all seats sold for this events!! That’s is now DOUBLE the donation to the Food Bank!! plus with the help fo the Greater Berks Food Bank , We are able to get a value of $20 in Food for each $1 raised, That means each seat sold for $10 now can raise $400 in food !! and if we sell all 250 tickets, that means $100,000 in food for the Boyertown area families!!!

Donate

Make a secured online donation through our website!

Plus, if you are not able to join us, you can still help by making a secured online donation through our website! Please remember every dollar helps and 100% of all donations goes directly to buy food for local families.

Plus, We are excited to work with all the great local Boyertown area churches who are part of BAMA.
(Boyertown Area Ministerial Association)

The State Theatre of Boyertown, along with the Heaven’s Thunder Band, recognizes the need to feed our community, not only PHYSICALLY but SPIRITUALLY as well! That’s why we’re bringing our own brand of high-energy positive impact music back to Boyertown!

We are excited to be partnering with The State Theatre once again as they re-open their doors to the community! The State Theatre has touched many lives over the years and we are counting on your help to keep the tradition going so we can continue to bless our community for years to come!

You may be asking yourself “What will it cost me to attend this awesome event?” The answer is:  $10/person… !!! That’s ALL!!! You can also to donate more if you want but 10 will get you in the door!

*** SPECIAL NOTICE!!! ***
100% OF ALL DONATIONS WILL BE USED TO BUY FOOD THROUGH THE GREATER BERKS FOOD BANK AND  WILL BE FORWARDED TO THE SALVATION ARMY OF BOYERTOWN TO HELP LOCAL FAMILES IN NEED!!!

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and also can be bought at the following locations

State Theatre of Boyertown
Fred Beans Ford of Boyertown  (ask for Service Manager Mark Malizzi)
Boyertown Salvation Army

the on line cost is $11 per ticket,  ($10 donations-$1 processing)

 

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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Thank you Thrivent Financial for your support!

We are so Excited to have our new friends from Thrivent Financial in Boyertown Pa. join our Outreach family.  If you are a Thrivent Member you will soon be able to allocate from your Thrivent program directly to our 501c3 charity Thunder Outreach Ministries!

We love what they stand for!   Relationship with a Kingdom of Heaven heart!

Check this out:

THE THRIVENT WAY
Our mission statement guides us in all we do.

We are a membership organization of Christians, and our members are our owners.

Our purpose is to serve our members and society by guiding both to be wise with money and live generously.

We believe that all we have is a gift from God and that generosity is an expression of faith.

We succeed when our members, their families and their communities thrive.

We value our relationships, so we will: Be trustworthy in character and competence, and Act like owners and treat each other as owners, and Live balanced and generous lives.

 

please contact them @ 610-367-1904
Thrivent Financial
11 E Philadelphia Avenue
Boyertown Pa. 19512

Thrivent.com

 

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SHELTER STRONG events all Month! and now YOU can Click or TEXT to Help! Just that Easy!

We are SHELTER STRONG and through the whole month of August we want to help The Salvation Army of Pottstown with their $115,000 fundraising campaign to renovate the Lessig-Booth Family Residence, an emergency homeless shelter serving Montgomery County.

You can send your check directly to the Salvation Army in Pottstown and 100% of the donation goes toward the bathroom repairs!
Send to: The Salvation Army
137 King Street
Pottstown, Pa 19464
memo line “Bathroom Repair”

And Now you can also TEXT to make a safe donation!

TEXT to SAPOTTSTOWN  and then put in the number 41444

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The shelter, which houses 11 families at a time, has experienced unanticipated water damage. This problem, coupled with years of wear and tear, has necessitated new bathrooms and fixtures.

If the physical needs of the existing bathrooms cannot be addressed, operations may be suspended which would result in the Salvation Army being forced to turn away over 200 people a year in need of a safe and warm place to eat and sleep.

Currently there are no bathtubs for mothers to bathe their children, and the renovations would provide for a bathtub on each floor, as well as a changing table and showers that are safe and private. “We are calling this an Emergency Campaign, because ultimately, we are not just renovating our bathrooms, but we are also restoring much deserved dignity for our residents,” said Major Frederick Clarke, Commanding Officer, The Salvation Army of Pottstown.

Since 1989, The Salvation Army’s Pottstown Lessig-Booth Family Residence has provided 24/7 emergency shelter to more than 1,000 homeless individuals, over 600 of which were children. Each family resides in their own room and is provided with three meals a day, basic necessities, case management, and a safe and secure place to turn their life around. A family’s length of stay is relative to their progress in finding permanent housing; however, most families normally stay anywhere between one to three months.

 

For more details on how you can make a donation to their renovation campaign, please visit their website @

http://pendel.salvationarmy.org/easternpa/pottstown_shelter_campaign

Thunder @ The Hill: Special Benefit Concert for Emergency Family Shelter in Pottstown

SHELTER STRONG  Special Benefit Concert to help The Salvation Army of Pottstown with their $115,000 fundraising campaign to renovate the Lessig-Booth Family Residence, an emergency homeless shelter serving Montgomery County.

The Night will be filled with Love- Music- Entertainment and Surprises with Music from Heaven’s Thunder and other guests!
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The shelter, which houses 11 families at a time, has experienced unanticipated water damage. This problem, coupled with years of wear and tear, has necessitated new bathrooms and fixtures.

If the physical needs of the existing bathrooms cannot be addressed, operations may be suspended which would result in the Salvation Army being forced to turn away over 200 people a year in need of a safe and warm place to eat and sleep.

Currently there are no bathtubs for mothers to bathe their children, and the renovations would provide for a bathtub on each floor, as well as a changing table and showers that are safe and private. “We are calling this an Emergency Campaign, because ultimately, we are not just renovating our bathrooms, but we are also restoring much deserved dignity for our residents,” said Major Frederick Clarke, Commanding Officer, The Salvation Army of Pottstown.

Since 1989, The Salvation Army’s Pottstown Lessig-Booth Family Residence has provided 24/7 emergency shelter to more than 1,000 homeless individuals, over 600 of which were children. Each family resides in their own room and is provided with three meals a day, basic necessities, case management, and a safe and secure place to turn their life around. A family’s length of stay is relative to their progress in finding permanent housing; however, most families normally stay anywhere between one to three months.

For more details on how you can make a donation to their renovation campaign, please visit their website @ http://pendel.salvationarmy.org/easternpa/pottstown_shelter_campaign10511330_962865200412480_404402357314873025_n

Thunder Outreach has been honored two times from the Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation

Thunder Outreach has been honored two times from the Four Chaplains Memorial Foundation for
their efforts and goodwill shown to all First Responders and their families as part of the events that Thunder Outreach host.

The “Legion of Honor award for
“In recognition of service to all people regardless of race or faith”

 

The Legion of Honor “Humanitarian Award”
“Which is given in recognition of a lifetime commitment to selfless service and societal advancement that has demonstrably affected the quality of life in the community, state or nation, service without regard to faith or race.”

The selection process for this award is rigorous.

 

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First Responder Appreciation Sunday @ Hopewell Christian Fellowship Elverson Pa.

Join us as we honor our First Responders on Sunday, June 28-2015.

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.

Save the date June 28-2015 and help us say Thank you to our area First Responders!

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Our Theme for 2015 is:
“Blessing those who Protect and Service our Communities”

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 June 28-2015 !!! God Bless

Biker Blessing at GT on Sunday, April 12th.

Hi Motorcycle Brothers and Sisters!

This is John Wanner from the Victory Riders motorcycle group at Glad Tidings Church.

We are planning to have our annual Biker Blessing at GT on Sunday, April 12th. This would be the Sunday following Easter services. We would love to have your group join us again. The 1st service begins at 9:00 am and the 2nd service begins at 11:00 am.

We plan to have coffee and refreshments, an appropriate message on building personal friendships, and a special prayer by Pastor Bryan.
Also, do you know of any other groups in the Reading area that I could invite?

Thank you very much. I hope you can join us !
Have a great week,
John Wanner

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