Quarterly Update from SFT - July 2011

This has been an exciting past three months for SFT Awareness.  We have come so far in working with new participants, adding new trainers to the ministry and achieving the goals we set for this
ministry.  With help and guidance from the Lord, this ministry continues to move forward in reaching out to help others by building strong and lasting relationships with participants and churches.

Currently, we are working with four participants who are aspiring to be trainers before the year is out.  One of our future trainers is located in Nashville and the other three reside in Malaysia.  We are thrilled to continue adding volunteer trainers to our staff every quarter.   Last month, Dona Drake, from Alabama, became our newest trainer.  Dona has a background in counseling and psychology.  The SFT
staff is very excited to have her join our team.  In addition to this, Janna Gonzalez, our bilingual trainer in Texas, is graduating this month with a degree in Biblical Studies from the Texas International Bible Institute.   She has been asked to present SFT Awareness to the church of Christ Spanish Seminar in Daytona, Florida, August 12th-13th.  To contact either one of these ladies for individual sessions, classes or workshops, please visit our website www.sftawareness.org.

Jimmy Hill is continuing to work on the participant workbook.  Our goal is to have this workbook completed before the end of this year, and we are looking forward to adding it to our curriculum.  It will provide participants with varrious ways to learn, retain and practice SFT training.   He and his wife just returned from Sabanilla, Costa Rica where we held a week long SFT class for the Sabanilla church of Christ.  His wife also helped organize their church’s VBS and I preached two Sundays.

Gary Washer, our program director, has been putting together an SFT Advisory Board.  This board is designed to help the SFT staff move forward in accomplishing our mission and staying on task.  The advisory board includes David Pope, our ministry’s treasurer as well as one of its most faithful and consistent supporters; Brian Coulter, elder at Highland Heights church of Christ and respected community businessman; Josh Pappas, education minister of Highland Heights who holds a degree in Biblical Studies and Brett Evans who has contributed to the ministry through valuable marketing advice and fundraising efforts.   We feel this board will help us successfully move into the future with guidance and wisdom.  

SFT Awareness continues to help people all over the world through individual sessions.  In the past two months we have worked with over 50 people in 239 individual sessions.  During these sessions, we teach participants how to remove obstacles that hinder them from developing peace-filled lives.  This year alone, we have worked with individuals in Tennessee, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Missouri, Georgia, Malaysia, Costa Rica and Ecuador. With 98% of people in our society carrying emotional pain at some point in their lives, SFT Awareness has been a shining light to thousands across our nation and the world.  We want to continue to draw people closer to Jesus Christ by teaching them how to remove the pain in their lives.  We appreciate your prayers on behalf of our endeavor to reach the world.