December 2011 Update

Prayer Requests

1. that the team and myself would open our hearts to the guidance of the Holy Spirit for future planning.
2. protection from the enemy in this process.
3. for our 2Coats friends who we are coming alongside and working with.
4. that we would practice being in the presence of the Spirit.

December Activities

1. December 12th, Monday. We are going to be Christmas Caroling. We had a great time last year, it was amazing! CLICK HERE for the Video!!

• Meeting at Brian's house, his address is 308 4th Street, here in Grundy Center
• We will meet at 5:45. We will leave from there to the senior housing development.
• We need: people, you and your family, cookies for giving out.

That's all from here, sure do love you much!

Steve Hinderhofer

ps: Like us on Facebook!! (not sure why, but sure does make us feel important)

November 2011 Update

Good day all,

I hope this finds you well. Thank you again for any and all prayers that you are offering up to God on our behalf. They are working, he hears your voice. Please continue to pray for

1. the completion and acceptance of our 501 c3 tax exempt application.
2. future vision casting and plan for 2012 and beyond
3. that His voice would be louder and clearer than all the others
4. that we would intentionally be listening and acting, obedient to what we hear.

Here are some service opportunities (and other happenings this month) this November. If there is nothing on the list that works for you or if you are unavailable on the dates mentioned below, give me a call or shoot me an e-mail. There are always opportunities that we are involved in serving. (Just because you call or write doesn't mean you have to do it, just that you are curious!)

November 4th (7:00) and 6th (2:00); the "Wizard of Oz" will be showing at GCHS

November 4th (7:00) and 6th (2:00); "Seussical" will be showing at GR High School

November 5th; 6:30 -- Servicemen Appreciation Night

• will be held at the Baptist Church on the East side of town. Dinner starts at 6:30 for all men in the community! What a great deal, free food, and even better, Chad Mackie will be the guest speaker. Wives, send your husbands there with the kids, and then come to the night of prayer (see below).

November 5th, 5:45; Community Night of Prayer

• you know the deal, going to be great!

November 12th; 11:00 Thanksgiving giveaway??

• Looking to do something special for the folks living in the senior housing development on the east side of town. I just aven't gotten an idea. Something small, simple, thanksgiving like...any ideas???

November 19th, 7:00; Mobile Food Pantry

• what a great time last month. The Holy Spirit was in the house (ask John Teske!) So very nice! Quick note, I will not be available this Saturday, will need someone to take charge this weekend. Any takers??

November 29th, 6:00 at my house; Helping Christians in Colombia

• One way you can help Christians in Colombia is to make parachutes which are used to drop Bibles and Christians literature into guerrilla-controlled areas. You can download the pattern which includes all information you will need to make the parachutes and get them to VOM for delivery to our partners in Colombia.
• CLICK HERE for more information about creating parachutes
• or CLICK HERE.

October 2011 Update

Nov. 5th, Community Night of Prayer, bring a friend. Grundy Center's own Treye Schupbach will be on the mic leading worship. Dinner starts at 5:45, worship to follow then a time of prayer and fellowship!

Saturday, October 15th, 11:00; working for a family in Dike, Iowa, cleaning a basement which has caused some health problems for this young lady's father. We will be helping to tear out drywall and insulation. Crystal will be providing lunch, masks, and gloves to all who come out. Check back with me for location or search, CLEAN UP on Facebook.

Saturday, October 22nd, 11:00; Treat or Trick, Pumpkin Giveaway, we will be giving painted pumpkins and some treats to our friends over in the senior housing development. Contact me if you are interested in helping to paint pumpkins or make treats (just tell me how many and what).

Saturday, October 22nd, 7:00; Mobile Food Pantry; same as before. There are many folks we can serve here with coffee and doughnuts. Perhaps you can make something breakfast like that we can serve, like an egg casserole. Meet at my house at 7:00, you can start handing out doughnuts and coffee by 7:15 and having some great conversations and prayer time with the folks that are waiting to get their food. What a great time! THe Holy Spirit has really been moving at these events.

Bible Study, 6:00, Library will resume as soon as I get back into town. I am out for a couple of Thursday's here in October. So if you and/or a friend don't have a small group, give me a shout and we can get you involved!

Team Meeting September 29th, 2011

Thanks

Prayers: moms, k.v, b.s., s.i.

Icebreaker: Are you more of a leader or a follower? Why?

ByLaws: good discussion (send to Brian)

Directors: pray about it, parking lot it

• President:
• Vice President:
• Secretary:
• Treasurer:

1023 (send info to Jan)(going to go line by line, Liz, will set up meeting)

Next Meeting, Next Time, October 27th

Prayer

moving help and CNP!!

Good day all,

I hope this finds you well. Busy weekend!!

CNP this Saturday night...going to be a great time. Bring a friend!! Dinner at 5:45, worship starts at 6:15, pray time to follow!

We could use moving help for some 2Coats friends on the following dates!

1. Saturday, October 1st; 8:00-11:00 (feel free to come anytime, even just an hour would be great!)
2. Wednesday, October 5th, 6:00; contact me for location
3. Thursday, October 6th, 6:00; contact me for location

have a great Friday.

in the Process,

Steve Hinderhofer

2Coats Board Meeting Agenda, 9-22-2011

Welcome:

Review of Agenda

Team prayer requests

Prayer

New team members

• Liz Nilles (married and mother of 2)
• Chad Mackie (absent)

Icebreaker: Question to be determined

Thoughts

• Thank you (time, talent and your gifts)
• Board = Team
• Continued growth (trust one another/be vulnerable, unfiltered and compassionate debate of ideas, buy in and commit to decisions and plans of action, call each other on counter-productivity to those plans, put individual needs aside focus on the achievement of collective results)

Last Time: Review (finished up reading over the bylaws)

ByLaws: further thoughts? (voting for new board members)

Conflict of Interest Policy (did not get to)

Committee for the 1023 additions?? (will fill out digitally, send out to Board)

Questions about the CD's (the beginning of team development, helps for understanding of one another)

Next Meeting:

• ratify bylaws (send out, read them, send any corrections) vote next time
• elect officers
• fill in 1023, send out Monday morning, look over, visit next time
• September 26th

Closing Thoughts

Prayer

September 2011 Update

Here is what we have planned in advance for the month of September. More to come as things com along.

September 8th

• What: Bible Study
• When: 6:00 at the Library here in GC
• We Need...just you, bring a bible if you have one, we plan to meet twice a month

September 15th

• What: Free Lunch for Juniors and Seniors of Grundy Center High School. There are about 110 seniors and juniors in total, I hope they all come out and can enjoy some nice weather in my driveway and a free lunch on us!
• When: 11:00-1:00 at my house, 907 F. Ave.
• We Need...set up, clean up, burger cookers, some salads, bags of chips, a few desserts.
• CLICK HERE for the sign up Sheet.

September 17th

• What: Senior Housing Spruce Up. There are several folks at the senior housing development that don't have any plants or flowers on the outside of their apartments. I thought it would be a great idea to plant some tulip bulbs (can you tell my wife is dutch) to bring some more life in the spring, give the folks some more reason to be outside and out of their apartments.
• When: 10:00-12:00
• We Need...some people that know about gardening and planting these, bulb donations, small shovels, and whatever else we need to be planting.

September 24th

• What: Mobile Food Pantry. We had a great time last month, got to visit with many folks and pray for people too. It was great!
• When: 7:00, my house, 907 F. Ave., Grundy Center, Iowa
• We Need...you, and some ideas as to what to serve. Doughnuts are going over great as is the coffee. What else could we provide??

October 1st

• What: Community Night of Prayer. The first Saturday is the first of the month, so I just wanted to make sure to plug this one. Eric Lins will be in from Cedar Falls. Going to be a great time!
• When: 5:45 is dinner, 6:15 worship starts, prayer time to follow!
• We Need...you, and a friend or two. Love watching the Holy Spirit show up each month!

Mid October: the Fall season is rapidly approaching, and so is out second fall festival! I hope to have an e-mail out mid september of what we are planning!

Hey 2Coats! What do you do?

I have been asked several times in my visits and meetings with different people the question, "What does 2Coats do?" Being as consistent with our mission and vision as possible, here is my answer...

1. Mission: to bridge the gap between those that have and those that need.
2. Vision: to assist, organize, and direct individuals in sharing their time, talents, and gifts in order to compassionately engage them towards God and one another.
3. We help with small home repairs and touchups including painting, brush clean up, general cleaning, "Spring Cleaning".
4. We can help with moving.
5. We give out free doughnuts and coffee at the mobile food pantry on the 4th Saturday of the month.
6. We help to find new homes for couches, washers, dryers, we help make appliance exchange.
7. We can help with finances, paying bills, financial education, bill management.
8. We have helped with food for different events.
9. We serve the local senior housing development, organizing BBQ's, caroling, grocery bag drops, spring cleaning events.
10. We give away free water on really hot days.
11. We do grocery bag drops around the community.
12. We have a night of prayer once per month along with dinner and worship music.
13. We love praying for people.

A Building

2Coats vision is to assist, organize and direct individuals in sharing time, talents, and gifts by compassionately engaging individuals towards God and one another. The potential for growth comes in many different areas of this organization. One area that would aid in growth would be the acquisition of a building, a point place from which we can organize, assist, and direct many individuals. Can we survive and last without a building, yes and we are doing a great job at this time doing so. This acquisition looks to the future development of the organization and its success in Grundy Center, Grundy county and beyond.

The story behind the building in Holland, Iowa. Earlier this year (2011) I had gotten a few calls from Gary Nibblink of The New Hope Fellowship in Holland. He expressed some concern that they would no longer be having services after the Easter holiday as their congregational numbers were becoming to low to support continuing services there. I did not have much of a desire to visit with him about the building at the time, wasn't quite sure if we had a use for it at the time. I did go visit with Gary and Clarence Henze at the building near the beginning of the lenten season with Jan Eberline and Stef Rohler. We sat and visited for a little bit of time. There wasn't much of a call at that time on my heart, and even after the meeting I didn't think this building would happen. It was to far from Grundy, needed work, and I didn't feel a desire to deal with the cost of the building or doing Sunday services there. I told Gary and Clarence that I would like to take the lenten season to think and pray. At the time I was also doing a 40+ day Daniel Fast and was hoping to find some discernment about the future of this building amongst other things. Nothing came. With a few weeks left in the fast until Easter, I got a call from Larry Doughn of the Colfax Center Church. He wanted to visit about the building, heard that 2Coats might be interested in using the building. We chatted a little bit over the phone, but did not get together and there wer several more weeks of time that passed without much thought of the building other than prayer. Then on June 12, I was at our Sunday service and was approached by a friend, Shelly Hovenga. She wanted to pray for me so we did. The following is what came through during that time of prayer...

People in need...something is in between them and me, like a wall or barrier...there is a noise...it is distracting them...I am to throw something to them but it seems so small..its ok that it is small though because it is from God...when its in the air it turns into fire and there are explosions of fruit when it hits the ground...there is a major source of white light, God's light exploding through the church in Holland...there is another door to go through, it is white, the handle was on the right...God says to go through it...he says, "You know my drumbeat, you beat the drum, learn to play it loud, He is going to give you drumsticks, you beat the drum...get their attention away from the distraction...

A few weeks later, I met Larry Doughn for lunch when I returned from Mexico. We discussed some vision and we planned to set up a meeting with The New Hope folks and Larry Hoop to discuss further the building when Larry D. returned from Rwanda, Africa. At this time I also got a phone message from Rick Nilles as he was looking to se if anything had been done with the building.

At that time I attended our annual SOS (Summer of Service) you conference at the Vineyard. After four days of intense risk taking teaching and practical application I was compelled to get the keys of the building and begin to lead anyone else interested in its use. I did so the following Friday in a meeting with Ken Lehew and Gary Nibblink of the New Hope Fellowship.

It is important to know that I did not discuss this decision with the 2Coats Board. I made this decision based on the above mentioned material.

And here we are. So where do we go? Here is a list of possibilities for the building...

1. Volunteer Center
2. Transitional Housing
3. Youth Center
4. Community Center
5. Saturday Night Prayer Services
6. Missions Center
7. Bakery
8. Garden and Canning Learning Center
9. Orchard
10. Wood Shop
11. Special Meetings/Conference
12. _
13. _
14. _
15. _

Balance Beam

I came to know Jesus in 2007. It wasn't an instant change, more of a process for me. One of questioning, seeking, asking, and knocking on many doors. God captured my heart after 50+ weeks in two celebrate recovery programs, after many Sunday mornings at the Vineyard, after witnessing the energy of youth worshipping the Lord, after the prayers of many loved ones who saw deep into my heart and caught a glimpse of what God had in store.

I remember one of the first books I read as a new Christian was called, The Barbarian Way, by Erwin McManus. If you have read this book or would like to read through my notes (CLICK HERE), you will get a better sense of who I am in Christ and how I hope to go all out for God. The last two books I have read were titled Unstoppable Force and Hearing God's Whispers and Having the Guts to do Something about it. As I read through the stories of the Bible and through these titles, God continues to shape my heart to take risks, to challenge the normal, to avoid the boring and mediocre and to experience the great things that He has in store. Even at the Vineyard we hear over and over again about stepping out in F-A-I-T-H which we spell as R-I-S-K and vice versa.

I watch Francis Chan in this balance beam video (CLICK HERE) and I get so fired up!! It is with this fire that we will run 2Coats on all levels. I would love to walk the balance beam with you, supporting one another, taking risks, avoiding the boring and the mundane, cannon balling right into the center of where He needs us to be, inspiring lives with the gifts that he has given us, and getting set up in a front row seat to watch Him move in people.

2Coats, Compassionate Engagement

The following is a listing and short explanation of how we hope to serve the Grundy Center area, surrounding county, and beyond. What we do will correspond to our Mission, Vision, and Values. It is important to know that there is no timing here. Some of these things are currently happening, others may be 30 years away. Very simply, this was the beginning of the calling on my heart, the seeds have been planted and I am looking forward to watching GOd move and seeing the harvest. Most importantly, we are going to need partners, and we are going to have to pray.

Community Outreach:

• community nights of prayer
• fall festivals, farmer's market dinners
• grocery bag invasions
• spring cleaning
• senior housing BBQ's
• caroling
• bible studies
• community suppers
• mobile food pantry coffee and doughnuts

Missions:

• coordinate international outreach using local resources.
• coordinate international mission trips
• coordinate nationwide outreach outside of our boundaries.
• lead trips every 2-3 months throughout the year.

Education:

• education = empowerment
• help individuals to make personal investments, a safe place to take online courses, help with online course completion
• personal education, parenting, nutrition, finances, etc.
• goal setting seminars

Community building:

• coffee house, dances, couples nights, adult proms
• meeting place for small groups, bible studies
• study lounge
• christian library
• coffee houses

Volunteer Coordination

• helping with home improvement needs: plumbing, electrical, house clean-up, snow removal
• serving the under-resourced
• sign up for needs, coordinate helpers
• furniture supply
• moving help

Youth Involvement:

• lock-ins, concerts, friday night activities
• prayer ministry, small groups, book readings
• debate and discussion nights, volunteer coordination
• open mic nights
• worship nights, prayer meetings

Transitional Housing, 2-4 apartments:

• single moms with a child
• rehabilitation
• eviction help

Financial Assistance:

• loans, free of interest, microcredit

The Story Behind Service

On November 28, 1994 I was a few days away from my 12th birthday. I was at a neighbor's house with a few friends and we were playing some video games. There was a pause in the video game and I turned to see what my friend was doing behind us. When I did there was a quick puff of air and instant pain. In an effort to shoot some air at me with his BB gun, my friend pulled the trigger and unloaded a bb and a pellet into my right eye. I lept onto the bed and soon did my best to run into the bathroom. I was instantly blind in my right eye and was rushed to the hospital. I would spend my 12th birthday there, going through a few surgeries that week, and several more in the months to follow. No progress. Loss of vision. Prosthesis.

Romans 8:28, He made good, even when I was a sinner. When I look back to those times I marvel at all of the help our family received. From receptionists who welcomed us for our daily office visits, to doctors who cancelled debts and were generous with their time, we were served well and unselfishly. I remember being laid up in the hospital, not being able to move, and having to be bathed by a nurse. I was totally helpless.

Moving deeper into my teen years I was able to understand exactly what those moments meant with regards to service and looking out for others, no matter what. As I came to know Jesus, I was impacted by the washing of the disciples feet in John 13. Service became part of who I was. By the time I traveled to Mexico as a senior in college, I was hooked and God began to unlock the Spiritual gift of service in me. I remember sitting on a hill in Mexico after our work week, feeling so complete after totally giving everything I had for five days.

And now, with 2Coats, service gets to be my job, my waking excitement, my life. I get to serve my wife and my kids, everyday plus the extra bonus to serve His children. I get to serve His people, those that are down, and out and lonely, and those that have everything this earth can offer but are missing out on His greatest gifts. I get to walk next to different people and hear their stories, let them know that someone is listening, and help them to be closer to Him. I want to share that love with you, that desire and passion I have with you.

I want to know why you serve. What is it inside of you that gets you moving in the morning to go wash someone else's dirty, mucky, calloused feet? I need to know how far you are willing to go, what risks you are willing to take. These are some of our defining moments in this organization.

It is important for you to know that I will give it all, and I mean everything, to serve the King and His people. I will do whatever it takes because I think that is what Jesus did, and that is what He taught his disciples to do. We are his disciples, we are his followers who have been commissioned to lay it all out for others. Reckless Obedience is what I am after, why I do what I do, and how I will lead this board.

August 25th Board Meeting Agenda

August 25th Board Meeting Agenda

1. This Month: Mobile Food Pantry, CNP, Lunch for HS students, Bulb Planting, Adopt a Resident?
2. The Next Three Months
3. This Year
4. Non-profit status: filing the 1023. Hope to be done within a week and sent in. Cost is $400 to apply
5. ByLaws Finalization
6. Election of Officers
7. Meeting at the New Building on August 29th, 7:30

August Update

Good day all,

I hope this finds you well. Get your calendars ready, August is going to be a great month of service to others!

First, some things to be praying about...

• for the progression of the non-profit status
• for continued vision for future outreach
• for election of board members
• for the courage to take risk in pursuing a building

Opportunities to Serve in August

Saturday, the 6th. Community Night of Prayer. Come pray for the community, community members, or get some ministry for yourself. Going to be a fun night...Time: 5:45 = Dinner; 6:00 = worship. Jon Rottink from Marshalltown and formally GC, will be leading worship!
We Need: you, and bring a friend or seven. Going to be a great time.

Week of August 15th. The Grundy Center Wellness Committee has a plot of land and then need help picking sweet corn. I will forward another e-mail about this, dates, times, and locations...get back to me if you can help.

Saturday, the 27th. Mobile Food Pantry Outreach. A great time to meet other community members from around the county, minister to them, pray, etc.
Time: 7:30 at my house. 907 F. Ave.

We Need: you, an idea as to what to serve that morning for food.

Sunday, the 28th. Inspirational Fall Kickoff
Time: 4:30-6:30
We Need:

• a grill
• a grill person
• salads
• desserts
• buns for hotdogs, hamburgers, and brats
• basic condiments
• silverware

Thanks again to all who have updated their information for me. If not, click here.

Thanks again.

Steve Hinderhofer

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2Coats...Bridging the gap, between those that have, and those that need.

Mission.....Vision.....Values.....

Website

2Coats June 2011 Update

Here is the June 2011 Update.

You will also recieve this update from the e-mail address, 2Coats24145@gmail.com Would you please take a moment to help me update my information by CLICKING HERE. This short survey will help me to do so very efficiently.

Thanks again.

Prayer Requests

1. For more opportunities to be apart of things God has blessed.
2. For the ability to serve, encourage, and bless folks in Grundy Center and the surrounding communities and the safety of volunteers while we do so.
3. For those that we are serving, that they would see through us to Jesus and to feel His eternal love for them.
4. For board meetings and conversations at these meetings as we further establish a foundation of mission, vision, and values.
5. For aid to other ministries which do very well what they do in their parts of the world.

June 2011 In Detail

1. Volunteer opportunities: please contact me and let me know which volunteer you and/or your family would like to participate in. There are so many ways to serve, pick one or more and join us. We would love to see you there...
1. June 3rd Power-washing
• we are going to be power-washing a 2Coats friend's trailer on this day. We have a power-washer and will need about three volunteers. I hope to start around 11 AM
1. June 4th Painting
• we will be painting this day the trailer that we power-washed the day before. We will need at least 8 volunteers for this event, and if we have more we may be able to finish the trailer in one day!! I hope we can start around 9 AM. There will also be opportunities to pray and serve the North Briar Park Community here in Grundy Center.

1. June 4th CNP on the Courthouse Lawn
• Come join us for our first ever night of prayer on the courthouse lawn in Grundy Center. We need about 5 volunteers to get this day going as it is a little extra work since we will be outside. We will start at 4:00 PM with the set up.
1. June 10th Relay for Life Prayer
• we are going to be doing some walking for the American Cancer Society. Come join us, walk, donate some money, etc. I hope that we can do some praying, for those that have family members who have passed, as well as for those who have survived, etc.
1. June 25th Senior Housing BBQ
• we had a great ime with this one last year, as we threw a BBQ for the folks down at senior housing. Many attended and we had a great time. We would need 8-10 volunteers, meeting at my house at 9:30 AM
1. June 25th Mobile Food Pantry
• we are going to serve some doughnuts and coffee to those at the mobile food pantry at Bethany Pres Church. We hope to do some praying, helping, laughing and smiling. Meet at my house at 7:15-7:30 that morning. We would love to have 6-8 volunteers!
1. Cook some meals
• we would love to have anyone who can cook to make some meals, anything in a pan that can be frozen would be great and adds a great addition to any grocery bag drops that we make. What a great blessing!
1. 2Coats news
1. Board Minutes: check this blog for the board minutes from the meetings, e-mail with any questions or suggestions
2. Find us on Facebook, tell all of your friends!
3. Visit the Website (Click Here)
2. Joplin, MO trip opportunity...there will be a group leaving for Joplin Missouri on June 7th and returning on the 11th. There will be a mandatory meeting at the church from 3-6 on June 5th.
3. Rocking the Faith; what a great opportunity to meet and spend time in fellowship. Check out the articles below for more information
1. The Hub Part One (Click Here)
2. The Hub Part Two (Click Here)
4. Serving abroad: there are many groups who exist throughout the world that do what they do better than we ever could. My heart continues to be struck by these incidents in the outside world. I would love to hear some suggestions as to how we can fundraise for these folks so we can support their efforts. I think supporting them would be great. Here are two examples...
1. Human Trafficking:efforts. Let me know what you think.
1. A21 Campaign (Click Here)
2. Not for Sale (Click Here)
2. Charity Water (Click Here)

Thanks again for all that you do in this community and beyond...

Steve Hinderhofer

Board Meeting May 26th, 6:00PM

Welcome
Prayer Requests

1. One request from each member present
2. Be praying, ministry and business

Board Member Elections; Review of "What is a Board"

1. Highlight specific notes
2. Mold to us?
3. What does Steve want in the board

Review and sharing of Bylaws

1. Do these serve our purpose?
2. Additions and corrections

June Events

1. June 2nd Farmer's Market
2. June 3rd Power--washing
3. June 4th Painting
4. June 4th CNP Outside
5. Senior Housing BBQ
6. Mobile Food Pantry

Closing Prayer; Galatians 6:9-10

bank statements e-mailed...

bylaws e-mailed

mission, vision, values

board elections

e-mail logo to Jan O. with volunteers etc.

It was a Beautiful Day

What a beautiful day this past Sunday as the rain went away and the kids of Grundy Center and Surrounding communities were able to run, toss and jump their hearts out in a Hershey's Track and Field Day Event.

2Coats was responsible for concessions. We had many volunteers that filled in all of the gaps prior to, during, and after the event. Thanks again to all who came out to help. These events are not possible unless we have volunteers like yourself! Well done and much appreciated!

Interested in flipping burgers or serving food, feeding souls?? Come out to one of our future events where we give away some food, make some new friends, share some smiles and spread God's love in a practical way!

"The best thing about helping at the track meet was knowing we can serve by

feeding people and in doing so we can be available to feed their souls as
well." ~JE

May 2011 Update

Prayer Requests:

1. Matthew 26:42; I'm ready. Do it your way. Pray that we would be obedient to the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
2. Philippians 4:13; Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. Pray that we would trust God in all of the adventures that He is calling us to and has blessed.
3. Matthew 6:10; Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven. Pray that God's will would be done at the several events we are working on in May including the Night of Prayer, food service at the track meet, the mobile food pantry and other service opportunities.

May Events

1. May 7th, Community Night of Prayer.

• This Saturday! Dinner served at 5:45, worship at 6:10 with prayer time to follow. Bring a friend!! The Spirit is moving, come be apart of the action!

1. May 14th, flier drop at North Briar park for upcoming bible study there.

• God is leading us to have a bible study at North Briar Park here in Grundy Center this summer. Please let me know if you would like to help by dropping some fliers, helping with the weekly study, or possible funding this process.

1. May 14th, serving food at the track meet

• This is our big event for the month of May and we hope to minister across communities and to many people as we are in charge of food for the entire event. We will meet at my house at 12 and will begin serving food at the track at 3:00. We are in need of 10-15 volunteers that day and others leading up to the event. Please let me know if you would like to help in serving, cooking food, etc.

1. May 28th, mobile food pantry

• We had a great time last month serving coffee and doughnuts. We will meet at my house at 7:30 and look to be at the Bethany Pres. Church at 8. We are in need of 8-10 volunteers, a team leader for that day, as well as some ideas as to what we can serve that day for food.

Other announcements

1. New e-mail address. As of May 27th, I will be corresponding with you via our alternate e-mail address, which is 2Coats24145@gmail.com. I will send out the June Update from that address.
2. We have a two coats friend who is in need of a ride to Cedar Rapids. Please let m ekonw if you can offer this ride. We will take care of gas money

Miscellaneous Ideas

1. Share Iowa, a community service food program, will be in Grundy Center on May 21st. Orders must be in by May 8th. See their website by CLICKING HERE.
2. Summer of Service needs volunteers leaders. Check out the Promo video by CLICKING HERE. This is a great time. Contact me for more information.
3. One of our 2Coats friends is selling Avon. Contact me for more information.
4. Another one of our 2Coats friends is making jewelry and will be giving a % of the profits to 2Coats.

Mobile Food Pantry and Spring Cleaning

Thank you to all who helped this past Saturday at either or both the Mobile Food Pantry and the Spring cleaning that was done at the Senior Housing Complex. We had a great time, first at 9:00 meeting at my house. I was overjoyed to see all that showed up, I think 12-15 in total. My Spirit was uplifted after the Friday night service of darkness that I had attended.

We gathered up all of the supplies and put the coffee in the car and headed to Bethany Pres church. We arrived a little late, as folks who are looking to gather and receive some food arrive as soon as 8AM! We pulled up with some fire and set the coffee out and got to handing out some doughnuts. We had several folks help with the pantry itself. One of our team members, Gene Peebles, prayer warrior, started praying for folks as soon as he arrived. It was cool to see! We ended up giving away over 75 cups of coffee and all 5 dozen doughnuts that we ordered from Family Foods (thanks to them for helping us out).

10:30 rolled around real soon as we were off to the Senior Housing Complex to do some cleaning. It was there that we met up with several more friends and the cleaning was on. What a great job our helpers did, cleaning windows, scrubbing floors, taking out garbage. Most importantly, taking some time to visit, hangout with, and pray for our new friends. What a great time!

We will be heading out to the Senior complex real soon, and next month the Mobile Food Pantry will take place on the 4th saturday of the month, which I believe is the 28th. See you then!

We had a great time serving as a family. We loved giving out Easter baskets, allowing us to visit and pray with people. It was neat how people opened up about their lives and we were able to pray with them. One very sweet lady told us that she was scheduled for stomach surgery on May 11th, so we all joined hands and prayed with and over her. Another gentlemen when asked if there was anything we could pray for him and his wife - he said no thanks. We visited a little longer and before leaving asked if we could pray a prayer of blessing over the home and his family. He said sure and after praying he had thankful tears in his eyes. I believe Jesus touched his heart. It’s so neat to be able to love others with the love of Jesus and meet their physical needs by cleaning for them and their spiritual needs by talking and praying with them. Go 2 coats!!! Be the hands and feet of Jesus.

I just wanted to say that the day was very full of love an giving both on us that were giving an us that received. The thing that I think sticks out in my mind is the look on peoples faces when they asked how much for a cup of coffee an when they were told free they were surprised. Then came the smiles an the thanks an even hugs. Many told us Happy Easter or bless you an then just slowly walked away but would stop an look back an smile. I think out of the whole day was the smiles of just someone giving and not asking for anything in return. We not only warmed people with coffee but with unconditional caring for the next person.

2Coats April Update

Good day all,

I hope this finds you well. Just a quick note on where we are heading in April

Prayer Requests

1. for the night of prayer gathering Saturday at 5:45. That the Spirit would continue to move on these nights.
2. for the Spring cleaning event, that we would provide more than a physical service, but development of neighbor like friendship.
3. for the friends of 2Coats that at times, like us, are broken, hurting, and in need of God's love in their life. May they turn to greet Him.

Volunteer Opportunities and Events for April

Night of Prayer

1. Saturday, April 2. Dinner Served at 5:45, music starts at 6:15
2. Bring the whole family, kids are welcomed!

Spring Cleaning: the purpose of this event will be to go to the Senior Housing Apartments on the East side of town and do some Spring cleaning for them. Serving them by cleaning windows, washing floors, dusting, cleaning bathrooms and kitchens, etc.

1. If you would like to help drop fliers on the Saturday the 16th, please let me know
2. If you would like to help with the cleaning, this will take place on Saturday the 23rd. We will start at 10 am.
3. If you would like to donate some cleaning supplies we could use...glass cleaner, floor cleaner, buckets, mops, rags, etc. = anything you might use to clean.
4. We could always give cookies away, so feel free to make some of those.
5. any other thoughts..??

We have Fridge: we have had a fridge donated to the cause. At this time we don't have a 2Coats friend who needs one, so we are going to use it to store food that we can give away to those friends.

1. If you can make a meal, casserole, ziti dish, soup, etc. something we can freeze or store, drop it by the house and we will get it to the appropriate folks.
2. Even better!! If you would like to deliver it to someone, I can give you an address!! This would be a great time!

Mobile Food Pantry: each month there is a mobile food pantry that comes to town. APril 23rd, same as the cleaning day, we will be handing out some doughnuts and hot coffee from 9:30-10:30.

1. Please let me know if you can serve that day.
2. If you would like to provide the Doughnuts (like from Casey's or something)
3. If you have any other ideas for what we can do to serve these folks.

Friends of 2Coats: each day we are gaining and being put in contact with new "friends" with whom we can serve. Like us, they are broken, hurting, lost, and in need of Christian fellowship. If you would like to lean more about these folks and families and what you can do, we would need to have a personal contact. What a great opportunity to start to disciple these folks and help them to be closer to God!

2Coats Board Meeting Agenda, 3-24-11

2Coats Board Meeting Agenda

• Welcome, prayer requests, pray
• Isaiah 58: 6-9...8 ideas for 2Coats...mission ideas...Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

1. break the chains of injustice
2. get rid of exploitation in the workplace
3. free the oppressed
4. cancel debts
5. sharing your food
6. inviting the homeless poor into your homes
7. putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad
8. being available to your own families
   

• Articles of Incorporation
  
• Elect board members?
• April 28th: we are responsible for food at this event
  
• April events:
  

1. Spring Cleaning Date? Pass out fliers Date? What do the fliers look like? What do they say?
2. Pregnant Women?
   

• May events:
  

1. graduates?
2. house painting?
3. mobile kitchen
   

• Bible Study this summer?
  
• What else are we doing at this time?
  
• Community Garden (we need a chair person)

1. gardening
2. canning
3. providing food
   

• Community Night of Prayer is April 2nd @ 6:00
  
• Next meeting
• Closure
  

Saturday Night CNP

Good day all...I hope this finds you well. Another great Night of Prayer this past Saturday night! Many attended. Thanks again to all of those who make food and desserts!

The Holy Spirit continues to move through this room and our hearts. The greatest miracle occurred, as a young man gave his life to Christ later that night. Praises to the one who saves us.

One final thought. I had been having Matthew 9:35-38 on my mind all week. I didn't get a chance to share with the group, but here are those verses...

^35-38Then Jesus made a circuit of all the towns and villages. He taught in their meeting places, reported kingdom news, and healed their diseased bodies, healed their bruised and hurt lives. When he looked out over the crowds, his heart broke. So confused and aimless they were, like sheep with no shepherd. "What a huge harvest!" he said to his disciples. "How few workers! On your knees and pray for harvest hands!"

I pray that you continue to have your harvest hands ready...to be doing what the Father does, to seek things that he has blessed, to be aware of those who you come in contact with, reaching out to those in need.

Be well. See you soon.

Steve H.

2 Coats Board Meeting Agenda for 2-24-11

1. Welcome
2. Prayer Updates
   
3. Prayer
4. Grocery Bag Drop Review
5. AOI Review and Suggestions (I will e-mail to you by Wednesday)
   
6. Board Elections (tabled)
   
7. Upcoming Events and Suggestions

• Spring Cleaning
  
• Sweet corn canning
  
• Hymn Singing at the farmer's market
• Building at the Senior Housing
• Night of prayer on the 5th of March
  
• The Human Experience will be March 25th
  

1. Next Meeting, 3-24-11
   
2. Prayer
   

2Coats Board Meeting Agenda, 2-17-11

2Coats Board Meeting, 2-17-11

1. Prayer
2. Special Guest Jenn Brost to fill us in on not-for-profit and 501(c) 3

• more organized
• more focused
• need insurance, for everything and everyone (insurance for non-profit)
• Grants will only come with a 501-c3
• you will have to track everything
• names for your programs
• do what God wants you to do and you don't have to do it all
• Steve is the president and executive director and founder
  

1. We then began to write the Article of Incorporation
2. We are using the guidelines from the Iowa State Website as well as the AOI of the Job FOundation as a guide.
3. We will submit the AOI to the state this week. This will be a $20 fee.
4. The next meeting will be Thrusday, February 24th at 6 and Steve's House.
   

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February Update

I thought it would be a great time for a little February update...

A few dates to remember in February...Calendar of Events

1. 5th: Community Night of Prayer at the Farm Bureau Insurance Building
2. 19th: Grocery Bag Giveaway. Fill your grocery bags prior to and come join us at 10:00 on the 19th and pass out some bags out to those in our community and surrounding communities. We will be meeting at the Community Center at 10:00. See you there.

Thanks for taking the time to read the why, what and the how...please continue, yes you, to send ideas for the greater good of the cause. Creativity is bubbling inside of you. Remember our question...as you read, remember that God is in you...Genesis 1:27; So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. You have His creative abilities!

How can we engage this community and begin to bridge the gaps?

The What, The Why, The How = Your Creativity

Good day all,

I hope this finds you well, warm, and not needing to travel much. If so, I pray Psalm 119:105 for you, "Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. I am currently reading a book called, "The Unstoppable Force", by Erwin McManus. He writes...

"Many leaders make the mistake of beginning with what rather than why, so the what is quickly rejected. Sometimes the reason we as leaders do this is because we've thought about the why so much that we think it's obvious to everyone...And so we begin the conversation with what needs to happen rather than with what has led us to this place. Once the why is clearly understood and embraced, the what can be received well..."

After reading this I felt led to again give you some insight to what is going on in my heart, mind, and soul when it comes to 2 Coats...

So Why 2 Coats? Because I like/love/adore Jesus, and I want to become like Him...1 John 2:6 says, Anyone who claims to be intimate with God ought to live the same kind of life Jesus lived.

Check this out...Click Here

Here's where you come in...McManus continues...

"We need to lead God's people to that place where the why is weighty and in their hearts--hearts that would cry out with the question, 'what then should we do?'...One the dominating question becomes how, creative juices begin to flow..."

The Spirit gave me these goals about a year and a half ago...this is the what

1. to bridge the gap between those who have and those who need.
2. to share the wealth, gifts, fruit and blessings God has put into our lives.
3. to compassionately engage individuals towards God, one another, and their personal dreams.

It is important to understand, to know, to believe in your heart that these goals and ideas are not "what has led us to this place but what needs to happen."

When we begin to live like Jesus and carry out these ideas, we are going to find ourselves in many different places as we "put our life into the book (the Bible)". We are going to be uncomfortable, looked upon as radical, what we do may not make sense to us in this world, but then again many things that Jesus did, that he asked his disciples to do, DID NOT MAKE SENSE.

Check this out...Click Here

The what of 2 Coats is more than going to church on a Sunday. We are putting legs to the theology here. Your Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays and...........they are going to look different.

As we "bridge the gaps" we are going to enter houses with several kids being warmed by the opening of the stove because their LP tank is empty because they don't have the money to fill it. We are going to travel to different communities and even countries, exploring the lives of the hurt, the lost, and the broken totally recreating our comfort zones to look more like that of Jesus and his disciples. We are going to step into the lives of single moms with newborns who are scared and lonely and afraid...

As we share our gifts, talents, time, resources, passions and experiences we are going to enter people's lives who don't know Jesus, His Father, or the power of the Spirit. What will you say to them when you look into their eyes and feel their brokenness and begin to share about yours and what God has done in your life?

What does it feel like.....to give 20%.....to allow someone to use your washer and dryer because theirs has broken.....to be embraced by a mom who didn't have anything to make lunch until you showed up at their door with a bag of groceries.....to sit with an elderly shut-in for twenty minutes and make their week?

When we compassionately engage others we are going to lay hands on them, pray in tongues, see healing happen in front of our eyes. Please know that we are Plan A here...we are the energy carriers...

An energy carrier is a person who refuses to allow apathy to take their life over... who refuses to live in mediocrity, who will not allow the average, mundane, the common and the ordinary to define or limit their life...and there is a world out there who desperately needs you to live at your highest level, who needs you to get up in the morning realizing that there is a God who created you and he longs to energize you to pour his love and power into his life so that you can become a conduit of his life to the world around you ...

~Erwin McManus

So, if you are here...that's a lot...but I hope I have clearly defined our reason for existing in Grundy Center and beyond.

In closing, I give this to you, with one question...

How can we engage this community and begin to bridge the gaps?

I am eagerly awaiting your response...

Steve Hinderhofer

2Coats Board Meeting Agenda, 1-27-11

1. Welcome and Pray
2. Personal Updates (personal prayers--)
   
3. Dinner Recap (thanks, we collected $1560 at this time, we paid for insurance likes and improvements, thanks)

• Likes: put Diane in charge!! Way to go!! Advertising was adequate??
  
• Improvements: 420 was the TAG folks on Friday, can we pre-sell tickets?? Different meal? Doing a meal in the fall?
  
• Thanks: Olive Garden (Sonya to write Courier (ask Mike as well), Send thank you note to Mike), (Barb Rose, Cass and Kieth Murra), (Paper article to John),
  

1. Next Events (Night of Prayer, Grocery Bag Drop, The Human Project)
2. Future Ideas (Felix Grundy Days, what can we do then..., concession stands at the games, UNI games.)
3. Grocery Bag Drop

• have the lists available, re use the bags, revising the list, Jan to pick up bags...
  
• 6th in the Churches, 13th in the churches
• e-mail churches and pastors
• get to different towns, P-burg, Conrad, Beamen
  

1. Begin Working through not for profit (Jen Brost as Guest, possible)

• postponed to next time
  

1. Assignments and Next Meeting

• Next meeting will be on February 17th & 24th; 6:00 and 6:30 respectively
  

1. Prayer
   

Board Meeting; 1-10-11

Board Meeting Notes
Present: Jan Eberline, Jan Onnen, Brian Buhrow, Diane Adair, Steve Hinderhofer (Thomas Z. Hinderhofer; went to bed early, left meeting at 7:00)

January 18th Chili Supper

• We visited about how much food we are expecting, how much we think we would need.
  
• We are advertising on channel 11, newspaper, school sign, notes to businesses, as well as these things in Reinbeck. We will utilize Facebook as well.
  
• Diane will be at the school to receive food by 12
• Steve will call Olive Branch
• Steve will e-mail food folks to double check with them.
  
• Leftover to be given the the community and "Kick" program.
• Steve will make a call for volunteers at school
• Brian making table tents.
• We will wait on a banner at this time, more info in the future.
  

Next Meeting

1. Review Dinner
2. Not for Profit
3. February and Beyond
   

January 1, 2011; Community Night of Prayer

I was watching The Chronicles of Narnia the past Saturday prior to heading down to the farm bureau insurance building. I love the part where Lucy is finally able to meet up with Aslan. She is exuberant with her energy as she tells Aslan that she new all along that he was there but that the others had doubted. Aslan answers, "Well then why didn't you come to me anyway." A powerful moment, even more so as we look inward and ask ourselves the same question of ourselves from God.

So with heavy thoughts, we headed down to the night of prayer, not knowing who would show, what the night be like, just knowing that God had called my heart to unite this community in harmony, and these nights of prayer would be a part of his plan.

The final story I shared on Saturday night was about Thomas, our one year old son. I am learning early that he is a sermon waiting to happen, I need only listen. This night, I was in the shower, and I heard Thomas thumping down the hallway of our old house. You can hear him coming all the way from the living room. He is just learning to walk so his steps are very heavy. Before I knew it he had pushed the door open and slung back the shower curtain and was looking up at me through the shampoo suds pouring over my face. I thought about the intimacy of this moment...how intimate are we with the Father, with the Son, with allowing the Holy Spirit to guide our lives...

"Peel back our ribs again and stand inside of our chest" ~John Mark McMillan

Here is a quick clip of the night...Click Here

Be the Change...Save a Life

Here are a few links I have come across in the last few days. The first is a link to an ABC 20/20 Special called, "Be the Change...Save a Life" that ran last Friday night. The other link is to the one they mention in the video called SaveOne.net

SaveOne.net

Be the Change