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Urban Missions Report

Street Gang Articles — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:00:20 +0000

URBAN MISSIONARY REPORT
08/08/10-08/15/10

What a week in the Mission Field we saw 10 people make professions and were able to Minister to over 200 people.
The week started of with my home churches 2nd Saturday Outreach Ministry called “Drive By Sunday.” Once ever month True Dominion and Power goes out side the 4 walls to be the Church and serves the community.

On Monday I spent time preparing my curriculum for the upcoming “Get Equipped” Conferences. These conferences are free conferences focused on Outreach training to equip the Body of Christ for the work of Ministry.

Tuesday one of my Co-workers had a issue with a difficult topic in scripture; Tattoo’s! His oldest son wants to get a Tattoo and they (my co-worker and his wife) were against it. They sent him to there Pastor who basically told him to do whatever he wants because its not explicitly forbidden in the bible. I beg to differ on a lot of these so called liberties so I worked up a study for the Family to bridge the Gap on this subject. Sadly once the Pastor gave him the Stamp of Approval he would here nothing more. Worse, Reality struck for him as his parents turned off his cell phone and cancelled him off the insurance as a beginning point to the repercussions for his choice. We have to understand a few things about liberties:

#1 they are not a license to do what every we please
#2 they are not a license for us to gratify our flesh
#3 you never get a pass to not obey your parents if they are telling you right
#4 anything that is not of faith is sin

Thought we could not hang a no tattoo scripture on the wall for this young man the damage it has done to this family proves in this case it was the wrong choice’

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were spent preparing to travel.

Saturday Morning we hit the road to Modesto CA. We had a great time with San Joe and Ninevah Outreach at Roberson park. They have such a awesome ministry adopting parks and doing outreach in the adopted neighborhood every Saturday.

Please join us in praying for the Following:

TDP Ministries and resources for Drive by Sunday
The Family of the Young man who is getting his tattoo when he turns 18 on 8/19/10
Alvin a Homeless man who has abandoned his faith due to hurt from False Teachers
Wes a you man in Modesto who we were able to witness to at the outreach
Tasean a you man who made a profession of Faith at the outreach in Modesto

God Bless you and continue to pray for us as we endeavor to transform the Hoods and Ghetto’s of America one zip code at a time. Everyone is entitled to Shalom; which is nothing missing and nothing broken!

Support Urban Missions:
http://theurbanmissionaryproject.com/Support.html

God Bless,
Kifani “Doulos” Thompson
http://theurbanmissionaryproject.com/

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Top 10 Gang Affiliated Hats

Street Gang Articles — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:00:43 +0000

What are the top 10 gang affiliated hats? This from Complex.com

Find out here…

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Why Do we Need Urban Missions?

Street Gang Articles — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:00:07 +0000

This from Brother Doulos…

•More than half of all black men in the nation’s inner cities drop out of high school.
•More than 70 percent of black male high school dropouts in their 20s were out of work in 2004.
•By their mid-30s, 60 percent of high school dropouts have served time in jail.
The scholars cite many reasons for this deterioration. Primary among them are bad schools, absent parents, racism, structural changes in the economy and a subculture that glorifies gangsterism.

We can really apply this to most racial or socio-economical back ground, Satan is targeting our men cause they are the Leader of families.

We need you to get the Word out:

We are Advocates for the Forgotten will you Join us?

Join The Fight for the forgotton: http://www.causes.com/causes/507686?m=ea26a3c9

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Donate to Urban Missions: http://urbanmissionaryproject.chipin.com/urban-missions

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Street Gang Awareness

Street Gang Articles — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:00:51 +0000

This from The Hammond PD in Indiana, a good overview of gangs and their organization.

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Street Gangs In Our Schools

Street Gang Articles — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:00:33 +0000

What to Look For and What You Can What to Look For and What You Can
Do to Deal With Them…this from Kentucky Schools

View the presentation here.

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Thug Life

Street Gang Articles — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:00:04 +0000

This from Thug Mentality Exposed

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Gang Conference and College Course

Street Gang Articles — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:06:45 +0000

Mike Ramey Will be lecturing and training at the National Gang Crime Research Center’s August 2010 Conference in Chicago, Illinois, entitled: “How To Start A Faith-Based Gang Prevention or Intervention Program In Your City.” This Internationally Known Conference Offers Continuing Education Credits (CEU) for Counselors, Social Workers,Chemical Dependency Specialists, IADAPCA.

Later in the month, Mike will be teaching a College-level course (UM-190) Fall Term August, 2010 at Crossroads Bible College, Indianapolis, Indiana. The course is entitled: “Modern Street Gangs: Urban Ministry Strategies” One of the ONLY courses being taught on the spiritual risks/dangers of the gang issue, offering academic credit (3 credit hour) in the country. It aims to address the ‘Spiritual Deception’ of Modern Street Gangs.

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No Escape From Gang Influence

Street Gang Articles — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:00:15 +0000

Another gang related death from the Pacific Northwest:

His death capped a string of homicides in Yakima County in 2008 that police say were gang-related. Of the 18 people killed in the county last year, half were teens.

Ricky was one of them.

Read the full story in the Yakima Herald.

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Testimonies of Former Gang Members

Street Gang Articles — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:16:45 +0000

This from Brother Ray

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A History Of Gangs

Street Gang Articles — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:00:17 +0000

The National Gang Center, a collaborative project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), has published “History of Street Gangs in the United States.”
Written by James C. Howell, Senior Research Associate, and John P. Moore, Director, National Gang Center, the bulletin reviews the chronology of major events associated with the emergence of street gangs in each of the country’s four major geographic regions.
Resources:
“History of Street Gangs in the United States” is available online at www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Content/Documents/History-of-Street-Gangs.pdf

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