Sow the Love Ministries

2010 year-end report for Tom and Holly Schmidt

Mission Agency: Sow the Love Ministries partnering with Laredo Stepping Stone as primary field location, Laredo, Texas.

Feeding the poor and hungry among us: 1508 families fed

Housing missionaries and their families: 824 beds used by missionaries; not in teams

Hosting outreach events in our community: 3

Partnering with others in ministry: 31 plus ministries…not counting missionaries that use LSS

Hosted- 23 mission teams members from around the USA

Hosted Church retreats - 3

Supplying food to pastors and missionaries: 36 times to 70 to 100 pastors

Sorting and giving out donations of food and clothing to those in need both within the body of Christ and those who not yet Follow: countless

Giving people a place in the community to serve_not including church groups: 28 plus individuals; 1 school

Monthly teaching and strengthening Mexican National Pastors: 10 times

Strengthening the Body of Christ within small groups as participants

One on one discipleship with non-believers - 1

Friendship Evangelism - 4

Taking believers to the foreign mission field: 9

Financially Supporting 3 national pastors

Partnering with 2 church plants: financially with project needs and people

Advocating with LOTS of paper work and financially for one ‘lost’ in the immigration mess of her parents

Sitting on three boards of ministries outside of STLM

Tom preaching in local churches: 5 times

Tom preaching Celebrate Recovery Messages: 1

Tom preaching Internationally: 2

Tom teaching a Pastors Counseling Session: 1

Studying the scriptures to teach/ write: countless

Networking with church leader: LOTS and LOTS of conversations, lunches and appointments with LOTS of people that pointothers to the cross!

For Christmas 2010:

Tuesday, February 1, 2011