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Happy Thanksgiving!

  SHANNON’S CORNER

Tis the season of gratitude and thanksgiving. I have so much that I am grateful for that could fill up pages so I will just share from this past month what I am grateful.

 

My family.  I am thankful for each one and how they have impacted my life this year in one way or another.  Even with our differences that we love and care for one another.  It was great to celebrate Thanksgiving together and share with one another what we have been grateful for over this past year.  Also, loved playing four-square with the nieces and nephews and spicey Uno with the older nieces and adults.


My global church family – the body of Christ.  God using you to chip away my hard edges that I have grown and matured in my spiritual walk and have been challenged by you all, my fellow brothers, and sisters in Christ.  I have been encouraged, strengthened, and refreshed by you.  Your prayers on my behalf as you intercede for me remind me of the prayers Jesus is already praying for each one of us even before we may realize our circumstance or situation that arises.  Your financial support for the ministry God is doing in ‘Refreshing the saints.’  Sharing your faith with me of what God has and is doing in your life.  Studying the Word of God together.


Release Time. How amazing that for at least 60 years the Union School District has allowed for their students with parents’ permission to leave school property for an hour to learn about the Good News of Jesus Christ.  I recently had the privilege to speak to the 6th, 2nd, & 3rd graders at Release Time sharing with them some of the things I get to do with the missionary kids in helping them to process their losses due to the high mobility in their lives and how that impacts, forms, and shapes them.  As I shared with them about Jesus losing his best friend, Lazarus and how he grieved that we too need to grieve our losses big and small.  I shared with them the journey of grief map that I use with the MKs and my favorite waswatching the activity to represent a swamp of sadness where sometimes it can feel like we are stuck and hard to get out of the muck and mire.  But we are not alone in it and Jesus is there in the midst of it with us.

Rimersburg UMC.  Worshipping again with you all and sharing what God has been and is doing in my life and in the ministry that He has given me was such a joy and delight.  Reconnecting with so many of you and some who I have not seen for years.  Stepping into a place where I am known is life giving to me.

 

Cherry Run Women’s Retreat.  The theme was connectedness – God, others, and self.  I was encouraged and refreshed in ways that pleasantly surprised me.  I so enjoyed seeing Brenda, Emily, and Sara using their giftings and talents as they planned and facilitated the retreat for us women.  Getting to reconnect with my fellow Cherry Runners and meeting some new ladies as well.  The testimonies that these ladies shared spoke to me and drew me more into community with them and with Jesus.




Donate Online! (Follow the prompts) 
www.WorldOutreach.org/783

 

Mail Checks:

  World Outreach Ministries, Inc.

  P.O. Box B

  Marietta, GA  30061

  (Make a check out to WOM & in memo or in a note write Shannon Eaton #783)

 

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His provision.  A new place to live that is affordable, closer to my sister, and still close to the local church I have been attending.  I need to raise $36,000 for 2023.  I am so grateful to all of you who are continuing to give monthly, quarterly, and annually.  If my monthly and quarterly pledges stay the same plus with what has come in since October, I am at $24,500.  God is so good.  Please be praying for how God wants to use you.  Would you consider increasing your gift?  Would you refer me to friends, groups, and churches who would consider supporting this ministry?  Would you consider becoming a monthly donor at $30, $50, $100, $200 or ________.  You can check out the blue box for how you’d like to give.  Anticipating of how God is going to use His Body to provide for this financial need and how we will both grow in our faith and trust in Him.


“I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness;
    I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High.”

Psalm 7:17


PRAYER REQUESTS

Praise the Lord for the amazing 8 weeks working with 7 ladies in transition!

Praise the Lord for our Family Thanksgiving!

Praise the Lord for fun sharing Jesus with children at Release Time (2nd, 3rd, & 6th graders)!

Praise the Lord for sharing at Rimersburg UMC!

Praise the Lord for spending time with my Core Team!

Praise the Lord for Cherry Run Women’s Retreat!

 

Pray for packing and moving to new place December 3rd.

Pray for God’s financial provision in raising support.

Pray for safe travels and training at City Rescue Mission, New Castle Dec. 8th.

Pray for wisdom as I meet with people either one-on-one or debriefs.

Pray for community, one friend locally.

Pray for my Friday mornings as we have 3 more TCK Connects before Christmas break.




                                               Contact Information:


Donate Online! (Follow the prompts) 
www.WorldOutreach.org/783

 

Mail Checks:

  World Outreach Ministries, Inc.

  P.O. Box B

  Marietta, GA  30061

  (Make a check out to WOM & in memo or in a note write Shannon Eaton #783)

 

Bill Pay:  free option via your online banking

  (Use the same information for checks)

 

Shannon Eaton

5055 Stacey Drive Apt. 1604

Harrisburg, PA  17111

(724)967-1437

 

Email:  shannon.eaton76@gmail.com

Facebook:  Shannon R. Eaton


 


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