OUTREACH
This section is dedicated to some of the ministries, missionaries and service oriented groups that CSL supports both prayerfully and monetarily. Your tax deductible donations allow us to reach out and touch many lives, bringing immediate blessings. Thank you for your continued prayer and support to this ministry.

Smile today! You are blessed beyond measure. But pastor, you don't know how broke I am...I know you're more blessed than 95% of the world by simply living in America. But, you don't know how bad my car is...I know you could be riding a bike. But you don't know I have to pay rent and don't own my house...It's better than a tent or a homeless shelter!

The fact is I DO know that God is great and he deserves our praise. He deserves thanks for what he has already done...and He deserves praise for what he has yet to do. Stop whining, complaining and crying about what you can't, don't or won't and start praising for what "shall be done" in the name of Jesus!

Instead of misrepresenting the joy of the Lord...walking around with a sad-sack expression all day like a cover-girl on the book of Lamentations; give thanks to the Lord for HE is good!

If you have trouble praising the Lord, I challenge you to get out a piece of paper. Write down things you have to be thankful for, things you know God has done. Then do this...say it out loud..."God, thank you for _________". Repeat often and see if the joy of the Lord doesn't begin to overflow in your heart.

For some of us we are limiting God by not praising until we see / receive the FULL blessing. Instead of saying...."Oh my arthritis", how about saying, "thank God I'm not blind, I can hear, I can walk, I can speak, I can eat, I have LIFE EVERLASTING!"

Now...you try it and know that someone believes in you!

Pastor Joe Cook
Hope Church/BA

• Outreach with Shane
  
  
  
• Dear Family and Friends,
  
  Sorting through the day by day steps to bring the vision of caring for orphans into reality, we have come to the place where we must have others to help us. We need people the Lord will send. But where does one look for such folks? Where do we turn? How will we find them? How will we afford them? I don’t know, but I know I cannot do this work alone.
  
  From the outset of this new ministry, I have known we would need a special married couple to come and serve with me to be the base of our staff. God has provided the place, Casa De Mi Padre. He has provided a helping ministry to cover us legally as we grow into our own, Fundaninos of Guatemala. And, now we are in the process of filling the house with the things we will need to care for children. The time for the right folks to join us, is here.
  
  This past month I took possession of our orphan care ministry building. It is more beautiful than at first and will be an excellent tool enabling us to care for kids in need. God has provided for us to begin to acquire the things we need to get the facility ready. The kitchen is ready, the dining hall furniture has been delivered, and next we need God’s provision to help us get the children’s rooms ready. We need bunk beds. But, all in His time. Once these things are in place we need folks who love the Lord with strong hearts and hard work-ing hands to help us.
  
  
  
  Please Pray For:
  
  The smooth transition of our new House Directors, Mariano and Gloria, and German, our facility mainte-nance helper.
  
  Needed furniture to get the children’s rooms ready, especially the bunk beds. The total cost is around $2,000 for the beds.
  
  God’s wisdom and direction as we move closer to opening Casa De Mi Padre.
  
  God to raise up folks to help us carry our monthly expenses.
  
  Thank you for all you have done,
  
  Joseph Shane Sanderson
  
  
  
• New Life Ranch
  
  
  
  It has been an exciting winter at New Life Ranch. In between snow storms (we had about 38" in a weeks time), we have had good retreats and actually used the new Soderquist Conference Center for three different retreats! Among our more immediate prayer needs are:
  
  1. We are having retreats almost every weekend now. Some weekends we have serval groups at a time. Pray God uses this special "Valley set apart..." as a place of refuge and spiritual renewal for Christians and a place of spirtual awakening and salvation for those who don't know our Lord and Savior.
  
  2. Week one and two of Summer Camp. With all the snow days that we have had in the area, some of the AR and OK schools are extending the year. The first week of camp is scheduled to start June 5. Some of the schools may be in session until June 14. Most of them haven't made final decisions yet, but this could have a big impact on our first two weeks of camp.
  
  3. We are putting together table hosts to have three vision dinners (OKC-April 4, Tulsa-April 5, NLR-April-7) to raise scholarship money for Summer Camp and Community Ministry. Pray for all the details as we approach potential table hosts and they approach prospective guests.
  
  4. We are putting the finishing touches on hiring summer staff. I'm guessing we are will hire about 85 for this year's summer staff. This is extremely important for us, because summer counselors are an extremely big part of our Summer Camps.
  
  5. Community Ministry started the new semester this week. We have 53 students and 48 mentors in Right Lead (using horses to reach at-risk students) and 11 students and mentors in Right Quest (using adventure activities to reach at-risk students). The snow made it harder to recruit and train our new mentors, but we have many returning mentors. It is always a big challenge with transportation and coordinating everyone the first couple of weeks.
  
  Kerri Brown, our Community Ministry Coordinator, has passed on these prayer requests for this ministry:
  S (boy), 12 - Just started Right Lead this week. His mother had an affair a couple of years ago. She left the family and hasn't contacted them since. S...is very angry about this. He has a little sister in 5th grade who wants to be in Right Lead. We are waiting to find a mentor so she can begin.
  
  S (girl), 11 - Was put in foster care at the age of 6 because of extreme neglect. She has been adopted by a family in Colcord. Naturally, she craves attention. The concern is with some of the tactics she is using to get this attention.
  
  Charles, 15 - Will be starting Right Lead today. He is a slow learner and has been diagnosed with mild autism. Please pray for him as he interacts with others. This will also be the first time his mentor has worked with someone with his type of need. Pray for patience and genuine love to develop between them. Also, pray that the other students will reach out to him with love and acceptance.
  
  C - She is the mom of one of our Right Lead students. She grew up with very little love in her family and has very little self-esteem. This has caused her to isolate herself and avoid opportunities to further her education or find a job. She is now going through Journey (a four-weekend spiritual intensive) to work through issues of the past and receive the love that God and His people have for her. She has jumped in with both feet and has given 100%. She is growing and glowing. She has done the first two weekends, and has two left. Pray for God's transformational work to continue.
  
  Leilani, friend of the Right Lead ministry - Has a horse she would like to donate to New Life Ranch. He is 16, in great health, has a great temperament, and is professionally trained. The pasture where she has been keeping him has been sold and on March 1st will have no place to keep him. We would love to take him. The problem is that she lives in Broken Bow, Nebraska. This is about ten hours away. She would need us to come get him. With the price of gas, this would end up costing us a pretty penny. Pray for God's will to be done in this matter.
  
  Thanks for your prayers for the ministry of New Life Ranch.