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Knowing that the KHS custodial staff was in need of a motorized cart to care for their facilities, Flood purchased a cart and donated it to Kearny for their use. Below is a thank you email from Peter Johnson, facilities manager.

Dear Jim,

Here is the pictures of the new cart you donated to us that arrived today. It is Kearny color of Maroon and it will be a very useful tool for custodial and maintenance of our facilities for years to come.

The drop down sides of the truck bed back will be a blessing as it can hold 1100 lbs rated capacity. The lights were added for night work.

I can’t express how thoughtful and wonderful this is in words. We are the only high school in the district (there are 22 of them) that didn’t have a custodial cart or maintenance cart to use and call our own. The one you see us use on Sundays belongs to Athletics.

With all the budget cuts over recent years since I arrived at Kearny in Nov.’07, all hope of getting a maintenance cart was all but lost.

We’ve gone from 14 custodians to 5 in the time that I’ve been in the district for a high school. Our plant lies on a long hill from the canyon all the way to Mesa College Dr. and from Wellington to the U.S. Armory. We move furniture, equipment and trash up and down the hill from one end to the other.

This cart will be used well and often for so many things. As long as we have this cart, it will always be remembered as donated by FLOOD. You have made Kearny a better place with this donation and God bless you all for this.

Thank you.

Peter Johnson

This year, Amor (facilitates TJ house building trips) and the Padres are teaming up for a fun Amor Ministries’ 30th Anniversary Celebration Event at Petco Park.  This Labor Day, September 6, 2010, the San Diego Padres will be hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers and Amor will be there.  Come out to the ballpark and celebrate with Amor.  Even if you don’t love baseball, come for the fun, friends, food, and the post-game fireworks.
The “Catch”:  Our goal is to sell 1,000 tickets.  If 1,000 people buy tickets using the Amor Promo Code (details below), Amor will receive a public address announcement on the big screen during the game.
Tickets are discounted at 20% off face value and Amor will receive $2 from every ticket sold under the Promo Code listed below.  You will need to buy your tickets online ahead of the game.  If you purchase tickets at the door, they will not count toward our 1,000 ticket goal.
Come out to the ballpark and celebrate the work that Amor has been able to accomplish, as well as, the work that is still yet to come.  It is Amor’s 30th Anniversary, come celebrate with us!
Game Details:
Padres vs. Dodgers
Monday, September 6 @ 7:05 p.m.
Post-Game Firework Show
Ticket Purchase Details:
1. Go to: www.padres.com/promo
2. Type in Promo Code: Amor
3. Click on Los Angeles Dodgers
4. Select seats you want.
5. See you at the game!
*This game historically sells out fast, so make sure you purchase your tickets soon so that we can reach our goal of 1,000 people.  Round up all of your friends, community group, and growth group  and join us;  it is going to be fun!
Tailgate Party:
Amor will be hosting a tailgate party at Petco Park before the game where you can enjoy free hot dogs.  Check www.amor.org/30years for current details on the Tailgate Party.

Hey everyone. A big thank you to the 250 people who served at Kearny High School, the Flood Offices and Linda Vista community centers at SHINE DAY!  You made a true impact on the hearts of the members of the community. Read an email from the KHS facilities manager below.

God bless all of you.   I am again so humbled and in awe of the hard work, the organization and the brilliance of dispatching hundreds of volunteer workers to make Kearny Shine!

I feel such joy and happiness when I look at my school.   The scrubbed walls of the Auditorium.   The seat that were cleaned and lubed.   The tape removed from the washed windows everywhere.

I do believe you guys removed 100 tons of gum from the walkways!! WOW!

The painted safety stripes for the doors, the cleaned and swept walks and Library.   The power washed concrete by JROTC.   The swept and blown blacktop areas and parking lots!

Wow Wow Wow.   You have made Kearny so nice again.    Thank you so much.    We have gone from 14 custodians to 5 over the years with budget cuts and this gives us such a boost!

All of you worked so hard and with such a nice smile on everyone’s face.   No discouraging words anywhere.   Such beautiful people!!!

Thank you so much.

Shine Day was a huge success, and a special opportunity for Flood members, KHS students, and members of the Linda Vista community to serve the neighborhood together. Your hours of work made a noticeable difference! See for yourself – check out these photos.

The crowd at 9am…

Painting the hallway in the School of International Business

Flood kids & families work on a sewing project

Gardening at the Linda Vista Rec Center

Thanks for serving at Shine Day! To get involved in upcoming Season of Service activities, click here.

Last Saturday, the College Group went on a trip led by Flood’s TJ Orphanage Impact Team. We built a fence and ministered to the children at the home. It was a great day!

Well it was a fun FIESTA night at Rob Bautista’s house last night (2/27) for TJO team’s first quarterly prayer night of 2010.  After learning a little about the orphanage and the kids, we read over some of their prayer requests for January and February.  It was great to see so many new faces at Fiesta Night and to pray together as a group for a good hour.  Afterward, Robert’s roommate Cesar cooked up some delicious food!  Chicken & steak tacos, pinto beans, yummy rice, chips & salsa, and Maiko & Lily’s homemade brownies and cheesecake.  To top it off, we ended the night with Dave Gladson dressed in an authentic Mexican sombrero playing a mini-accordion bought at the TJ/USA border.  Rob attempted to accompany him as a singer. Let’s just say it was the BEST and the WORST mariachi band ever!

Here are a couple prayer requests from the night. To see more prayer requests or learn more about TJO, email orphanage@diveintoflood.com or find us under Flood Church Mexico Impact Teams on Facebook. You can read prayer requests and submit your own under the Discussion tab on FB.

  —Luis: Please repair the road and for my friends.
  —Byboh: We don’t want any theft here.
  —Rodrigo: For all my family and the whole world.
  —Moises: I’d like to ask to take care for my dad and mom.
  —Salvador: Pray for my family and friends. That I could find good friends in school.
  —Antonio: That Casa Hogar is taken care of and pray for it and all of us.

 We also want to pray for Bertha, a staff member at the orphanage, who is no longer in touch with three of her children due to a past of drug abuse. Although she is now recovered from her addictions, she is still suffering the painful consequences of losing contact with 3 children. She requested prayer for their health and safety, as well as for the safety of El Faro orphanage. We as a team also want to lift up Bertha’s life so that she can experience God’s grace, goodness, peace, and redemption in her life.

January is National Mentoring Month, a time to celebrate accomplishments and re-commit to serving children in San Diego County.  As a grateful partner of The Flood, Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) would like to invite you to join us in our January FUNdraising events. 

Tuesday, January 26th (4pm-10pm) – Join us at Stone Brewing Company’s World Bistro for an evening of great food and drink.  Come dine in the Bistro and 15% of your sales will be donated to BBBS. Location: 1999 Citracado Parkway, Escondido 92029.

Thursday, January 29th (5pm-9pm) – Join us at the Lucha Libre Gourmet Taco Shop for “Chow for Charity”.  Order up fresh Mexican food and see a real Lucha Libre wrestler! Proceeds from the evening will be donated to BBBS.  Location: 1810 W. Washington St, San Diego 92103

My sister and I both attend Point Loma Nazarene University, and live in the same dorm. We decided to invite the girls from our halls to all pray with us at midnight. After explaining the idea, we ended up sitting in the hallway with a circle of 15 girls ready to pray for the hurting.  It is so amazing how God is able to use and work through us by our prayers. Community is such a blessing.  I really do believe in the power of prayer! God is so Good!

We are in this together!
Thank you for the challenge and idea! God Bless.

Strength, Love, Believe,
Marsha Hubbard

I fully intended to enter into this endevour alone.  I knew I would be away from flood folks all evening so I made the commitment to set aside quiet time at midnight.  Boy was I wrong.  I ran into Jason at the YMCA and we had seen each other around.  We shot some texts back and forth and agreed to met up and pray along with his roommate, Todd.  God was even moving in the fact that we barely knew each other but had Flood as a bond already!

Our prayer time was most excellent.  I would say nothing earth shattering, no angels descending from on high (visible ones anyway), yet the simple stillness and hour of intentional prayer will set an incredible space for our hearts for the week.  It was also really binding to know that innumerable lights were also on around the county, praying as we were.  Solidarity and boldness.  What a challenge.  I can’t wait to look up in the near future to see what we really asked God to do with us.  Eyes up.

How generous is our Lord!! I’ve been praying for Haiti since the earthquake and even before I started my prayers at midnight, on the evening news it was announced that the country of Haiti is turning to prayer in this time of heartache and disaster. Additionally, and again so generously, I was reminded of my place in God’s kingdom as His Watchtower. I’d been praying that God would turn Haiti’s disaster into His glory for all the world to witness. As hard times and crises increasingly pummel the earth and our lives, Christians are called upon to turn humanity’s attention to the greatness of God to be found in every situation. While not minimizing the hardships that Haiti’s disaster brings, Christians should be helping and redirecting peoples attention to how each and every situation can magnify God’s glory. Like personal mistakes, worldly disasters are opportunities for God’s glory to shine through. Even when we step away, God is right there waiting with open arms…..How blessed!
Thankful to my Father for the reminder and opportunity to recommit myself to His service-
Mary H