Hoskins Park Ministries

Thanks to a donation from a Morten and Lori Andersen we no longer have the expense of purchasing paper plates and flatware to serve dinner at Hoskins Park.

There is a place setting for 50 people stored in the conference room closet to the right. The dishes are stored in 4 clear plastic containers in the closet, just ask the person on duty that night to show you where if you are not sure where to find these dishes. These are just for Life Groups to use. Please clean and store back in the closet when you finish.  Please be as diligent as you can to make sure the men do not leave the premises with the dishes, the supply will dwindle very quickly if we do not try to keep these dishes on site at 107 Cromer.  

Each Life Group will still be responsible for the food and drinks. Bottled water works pretty well.

Please check with Paige for the menu items, Lasagna is great and easy, but 3 nights a week is a little much!

We also need a Life Group to handle the 3rd Monday of EACH month to pick up a free dinner from Roosters at South Park. The only expense you have is the pick up and drinks.

Roosters has also volunteered to provide Blessings in the Storm with the same FREE dinners. All Mondays are available for this service opportunity.

Please contact Paige Vestal at 704-400-9755 for all questions and schedules.

May God Bless you all.

Bill Dinkel
704-488-2488

We would like to invite each Life Group Leader and/or Impact Champion to a planning meeting at Forest Hill Church in the Charis Room on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 6:30PM. Light refreshments will be served.

The purpose of this meeting is to:

Prepare a Resource Pool of Talent. Please bring a list of your Life Group Members Occupation or Special Talents. The list should include names, email addresses and telephone numbers.
This will be used to better partner your Life Group with HPM and Blessings.

Review the 2008 Special Events Calendar.

Establish the 2008 Saturday Work Schedule.

Create Volunteer Committees to help with continuing projects.

We are still celebrating the fellowship enjoyed by everyone in 2007 even as we plan for the opportunities of 2008.

Please click here to RSVP to Bill Dinkel.

Thanks you so much and God Bless you all.

Bill Dinkel
704-488-2488

If you have not already done so please register your Food Lion MVP card.  If we do not get 25 people registered in the next 7 days Food Lion will delete Hoskins Park from the organization list.  The link is below and it only take a few minutes.

Here is an easy way to help out Hoskins Park every time you shop at Food Lion.  By registering your Food Lion MVP card you can earn money for the ministry.  See the paragraph below that describes the program.

What is LionShop & Share?

LionShop & Share is the easiest, most convenient way to raise money for your local not-for-profit organization. Each time you shop at Food Lion and use your MVP card, a portion of your total grocery purchase will be donated to the school, church or other local not-for-profit organization you have selected. Food Lion knows it is important to be involved in the local communities in which it serves, and Lion Shop & Share is our way of helping you help your community grow and prosper.

Click here to be taken to the registration page.  Once there click on the Select Organization tab and a pop up window will appear (you must have pop offs blockers turned off or you will not see the window) and you will be required to enter your state of NC and your city of Charlotte and then you can choose your organization, just scroll till you see Hoskins Park Ministry. 

Choose the ministry as your organization and you will be prompted to enter you 12 digit MVP card number, (make sure you enter all 12 digits, those 2 very small numbers at the beginning and end are part of the string) along with other information.  Submit and you are done.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to email Paige

Hi everyone,

We need 48 volunteers to help with the Shamrock 4 mile run on Saturday, March 15th that Hoskins Park Ministries is sponsoring!

If Hoskins Park Ministries provides the volunteers they write us a check at the end for supporting/sponsoring this event. And since Run For Your Life is so good to us, we want to support them when they need us and they need us!

We will be able to provide about 20 men/woman from the ministry. So we need Life Groups to come up with about another 30 men/woman. We will need you from 6am-11am that Saturday.

Once we get the volunteers we will inform you of your duties.

Please help if you can. We need you!!  If you can volunteer for this event click here to email me your availability.

Thanks everyone!

Blessings! -Tom

Thank you all for the continued support of this rapidly growing Ministry.

To update you on the Pantry at Blessings in the Storm, they are out of everything. Blessings serves over 20 women and children and are in need of everything from the list below.

Hoskins Park, in addition to the list below, is out of soap, toothpaste, razors, shaving cream, shampoo and deodorant.

All Pantry donations for both Blessings and Hoskins Park should be delivered directly to Hoskins Park at 107 Cromer Street. Donations may also be dropped off at the storage bins in front of the 2nd floor office door at Forest Hill Church.

Please call Paige Vestal at 704-400-9755, or email her to arrange a delivery.

Thank you again for all you do and God Bless you.

Bill Dinkel

Here is an easy way to help out Hoskins Park every time you shop at Food Lion.  By registering your Food Lion MVP card you can earn money for the ministry.  See the paragraph below that describes the program.

What is LionShop & Share?

LionShop & Share is the easiest, most convenient way to raise money for your local not-for-profit organization. Each time you shop at Food Lion and use your MVP card, a portion of your total grocery purchase will be donated to the school, church or other local not-for-profit organization you have selected. Food Lion knows it is important to be involved in the local communities in which it serves, and Lion Shop & Share is our way of helping you help your community grow and prosper.

Click here to be taken to the registration page.  Once there click on the Select Organization tab and a pop up window will appear (you must have pop offs blockers turned off or you will not see the window) and you will be required to enter your state of NC and your city of Charlotte and then you can choose your organization, just scroll till you see Hoskins Park Ministry. 

Choose the ministry as your organization and you will be prompted to enter you 12 digit MVP card number, (make sure you enter all 12 digits, those 2 very small numbers at the beginning and end are part of the string) along with other information.  Submit and you are done.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to email Paige

We have a pregnant woman who is going to need medical care beyond our current ability to help them. As a result we need a nurse to work with Loretta at Blessings In The Storm.

Could you please email me back if you are a nurse and want to help? Or if you know of a nurse that you think would want to help, I would appreciate it if you would ask them if they are interested and then, if so, have them email me as well.

Thanks everyone! We need you!!

-Tom

Hi everyone!

Praise the Lord! Hoskins Park Ministries has just received a generous offer to help us buy the 17th house for our ministry which is located just down the road from the other houses! God continues to grow Hoskins Park ministries (which includes Blessings In The Storm!) and we give Him the glory!

Furthermore, we will be naming this new home “Kurt’s House” in memory of the late Kurt Wiltsey. A man after God’s own heart who always took care of God’s least. This is a way for us to remember God’s servant Kurt and be reminded of God’s compassion and generosity lived out through our friend. 

The house still needs a lot of work so please pray for the Lord to raise an additional $15k -$20K for us to do it right. And please pray for the supplies and for the people to do the work to help out in the next couple months. We would like this house up and running this spring.

Also, if you would, please pray or help out yourself, with our committed monthly donors, of any amount. Please?! Even $25 per month makes a big difference while $100 per month (or more) is a huge help to us! We are doing the work we feel God called us to do by taking His people off the street and living with and amongst them. But our overhead goes up as we add people and staff and new houses raise up the bar for us. We really need your help! But don’t give if you feel we are asking for too much. We are just trying to help as many people as we can and, well, as we all know, it takes money. I’m sorry everyone wants your money though! But it takes money to do what we do and that’s just the way it is. So give if you can give cheerfully, forget I asked if you feel we are asking for too much. But we need help to keep growing. And we are getting people off the street permanently.

Oh, and one of the scriptures that drives us and the WAY we do our work is found in the book of Romans. The bible says in Romans 2:4, “Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you toward repentance?” It is saying that God’s kindness leads to repentance, not His judgment. None of us reading this email likes to be judged. So perhaps we can stop judging the homeless and praising the God who created us for the blessing all of us have to actually have a home to live in ourselves!  We are blessed to be a blessing, is the point! So, let’s keep the blessings flowing!!!

If you feel led to give to HPM, please send checks to:

Hoskins Park Ministries
107 Cromer Street
Charlotte, NC 28208

If you are sending a check on behalf of “Kurt’s House” please indicate that on the check.

Thanks for your support and consideration to further support God’s least.

-Tom

Could you please pray for these woman and children? They need us all right now. You will notice two of the children are unborn.

- Ani , she is due to deliver her child on Feb 12, 2008. The doctor is concerned about the inadequate movement of the baby. Ani has not received any prenatal care so we have no idea of the condition of the child in her mom’s womb. Since the child isn’t really moving there is obvious concern.

- Charlene, for her mental welfare and the concern for the stability and care for her 6 month old baby girl (Trinity).

- New resident, Natanya, who came from an abusive situation. Natanya has an 8 year old daughter(Tajee) and is 2 months pregnant and has been abused while pregnant. As of 10:30 a.m., Natanya was transported to the emergency room. Natanya has severe morning sickness and has a history of having high-risk pregnancies.

Thanks everyone! We praise God for hearing our prayers and for answering them quickly, for HIS glory!

In Him,

- Tom

The men at Hoskins Park Ministries continue to value the service that all of you have given to them.

Hoskins Park has a need for Life Groups to pick up donated food from Roosters Restaurant at South Park EACH 1st or 3rd Monday.

The Life Group would be responsible for picking up the food between 5-5:30PM and deliver it to Hoskins Park and serve the dinner around 6PM. The food is FREE, but you would still have to furnish utensils and drinks.

Please email Paige Vestal, or call her at 704-400-9755 to reserve your Life Group.

May God Bless.

Bill Dinkel