Here is a definite way how God works!

A friend of The Well said, “We have seven older laptops for you. Do you think you could use them?”  I said we surely can find someone who needs a laptop.  It is almost as essential as a phone today.

We cleaned them up, updated them with the right software. It was a great opportunity for my 16 yr old son to use his computer skills.

The next day, a foster mom texted us and said, “Hey Bill, I don’t know anyone in the computer world, but I was praying about laptops for our kids, and God put you in my heart to check with you to see if you knew anyone.” She went on to say that she needed 6 laptops.

Strangely enough, we know the same One!

The One True Living God, King Jesus, who answers prayer before we even ask (see Isaiah 65:24), who looks after the fatherless (see Psalm 68:5-6), who blesses the those who help the hurting (see Proverbs 19:17), and The One who gives us wisdom to make decisions (see James 1:5-8)

We had seven laptops, but two were damaged beyond repair, so we were able to provide 5 of the 6 they needed. Please pray we are able to provide them the 6^th laptop as well as laptops for other single parent and foster families in our area.  We have requests for 3 additional, a total of 4 laptops we could get into the hands of families immediately.

One more note… these were foster kids, they have all been adopted by this family! They belong to this family now. Just like God adopts us into His family when we become a follower of Jesus. (See Romans 8:15)

We value showing the love of Jesus as much as we value sharing about the love of Jesus to our world!

Blessings

Bill Stevens

Bill@TheWellLoveland.com

Here are the Scriptures I referenced!

“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families,…”  Psalm 68:5-6

“Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.”  Isaiah 65:24

“Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.”  Proverbs 19:17

“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. ⁶ But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. ⁷ That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. ⁸ Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.”  James 1:5-8

^“The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”  Romans 8:15

The Well is a new community church coming to the Loveland 25-34 Johnstown area. It is led by Pastor Bill and Stephanie Stevens. We believe showing the message of the love of Jesus is 7-24-365 life long journey. Connect with us for more info.

Miracles & Missions! End of Year Report 2018

• One couple whose husband came down with congestive heart failure and was confined to the house. They were able to keep their house this year because of your gifts!

• Beds for two single moms and their kids.

• One single mom with 5 kids at her house was able to get keep her rent house and get back on her feet.

• 4 working single moms got laptops.

• Helped a mom with hospital expenses for her child who passed away.

• 2 abandoned young ladies going to college got laptops.

• Homeless families were provided temporary housing.

• A washer and dryer for an immigrant family with five little children.

• A distressed sick single mom with health needs was able to buy groceries.

• An abandoned baby boy was helped to get a baby bed and special things he needed so his new family could care for him.

• We were able to do a gift card drive and vehicle for single moms going through hard times and many in the community are participating helping these dear people.

• 25 sleeping bags for the homeless

• Over a hundred homeless were fed.

• Helped a single mom with 4 kids and in stage 4 breast cancer have grocery, gas, and Christmas presents.

• Partnered with Angel House who helps care for homeless families providing housing, food, counseling, training, clothes, beds, and bedding.

• Led a community Gift Card and Cars drive. We were able to connect a family who had been saving money to buy a car for a single mom, with a single mom who needed the help! God had put it in their heart 6 months before!

• We were able to provide gift cards for four single-parent in need during the holiday season.

• Served Gumbo to our neighbors at a movie night.

• Two Interest parties with many interested.

• Began small groups with over 40 attending.

• Partnered with church planting organization to help plant other churches.

• We are helping persecuted Christians from Asia who get asylum in the USA get assimilated and become citizens in the US by helping a small church who ministers to these.

• Spoke at two missions conferences on Kingdom expansion, one in Memphis and one in Shreveport. They paid for everything so I could speak. What a big honor!

• Hope Church in Las Vegas with Pastor Vance Pitman (mega-church of 3,000 on a weekend) invited us to be part of their church planting team this year. They bought us out to Vegas and trained us, equipped us, and encouraged us. We were in a group of 10 church planters and they paid for everything every time – we could not have done it otherwise. It was a huge investment and bigger honor.

• Sledding Day! God gave us a big snow and we planned a big sledding day with our neighbors! We had over 75 kids at the peak. They had a blast sledding down a big hill in our neighborhood. Watch the video on our website!

• Easter Egg Hunt !! Wow!   Close to 400 kids, 800+ people, 400 hotdogs, and 10,000 Easter eggs! A friend of The Well donated a grill so we could cook the 400 hotdogs! We could not have been able to do it without the 60+ volunteers from our neighbors!

• Halloween / Fall Festival at our house. Wow! We had over 150 friends come by the house! 

We are looking to hit 2019 strong!

• Actively looking for a place to meet in the 25-34 corridor. As much as I love having a party and helping hurting people, I love teaching God’s Word even more and helping people find their connection with God to help them in every area of their lives!

• Team Building:  We are building teams for church startup.

• Preview Services:  A preview service is like a soft opening for a business. We will have at least two preview services.

• Launch weekly worship services.

• Start additional small group Bible studies in the community.

• Easter Egg Hunt!

• Other Fun events!

• We are going to partner with other local non-profits who serve the community’s low income needs better than we do. They have the in house counselors and case workers to be able to help these families in ways we are not equipped. We are excited about this new partnership because we believe we will be able to help more people with the specific kind of help they need.

• We are going to be looking for and planning volunteer opportunities for us to be able to serve our community together. We believe in adding value to our communities.

1]  Volunteer to help us serve the community! It may be stuffing Easter Eggs or serving a meal to the homeless.

2 ] Attend a Community Group meeting. Come and check it out to see what we are doing! It is where Faith, Friends, and Fun intersect! More info here!

3] Get on the Launch Team

4] Pray For Us

5]  Partner financially to help us continue to serve our community. More info here. 

Questions or you would like to keep you in the loop about upcoming events?

Email  or  text Pastor Bill Stevens  at 970-541-9673  or email  Bill@theWellLoveland.com  your contact info and we will keep you up to date!

Read the Reporter Herald’s article on the Gift Card Drive.

Pastor Bill Stevens shares about the Gift Card & Car drive. 

One aspect of our ministry is to help those who are the most vulnerable in society, like single moms. Your gifts of Gift Cards and donations of Cars (Vehicles) will go directly to help single moms in need in our community.  Gift cards for groceries, oil changes, fuel, hair cuts, meals, dental cleanings, Christmas presents for their kids, and clothing.

What kind of people are we helping?

November 2018

From Pastor Bill:

Two of the teachers at the high school where I taught last semester contacted me about a staff member who I know, but I didn’t know what she was going through. This dear single mom is in a life and death battle. She has 4 kids at the house and now she is facing breast cancer for the 2nd time – this time she has a rare form that is highly aggressive. She has hit stage 4 which is life threatening.

She is finding her help and strength in Christ, but this is still a frightening battle. To say the least it has unsettled her, her kids, friends, family, and co-workers.

She is going to be out of work for months. They need groceries, fuel, clothes, haircuts, basic necessities, Christmas gifts, Oil changes, etc.

She is in the middle of 7 weeks of radiation and will receive chemo until May. This is probably going to be the most difficult Thanksgiving and Christmas this family has ever faced. She has to drive herself daily 30 miles for treatments. This is a lady who took care of the high school kids in the health office for us when they were sick. Now, she is needing others to help care for her.

Sometimes there are things in life we cannot handle on our own. Even Christ needed help when He was carrying His cross. He collapsed under the weight of it and a man was conscripted to help Him carry His cross. Yes, there are things in life we absolutely cannot handle alone. This lady and the other single moms we have been contacted about need our assistance as a community this Holiday season.

The Gift Cards and Cars will go directly to help these single moms and others in desperate need this year. We just get to be the delivery people! 

Family case workers in Loveland have asked us to help four families who need vehicles. 

• Family A – A Single mom of 5 working as a hotel housekeeper in need of a car.
• Family B – A single mom of a young boy, who works as a surgical technician needs a vehicle.
• Family C – A single grand-mom raising her grandson in need of a vehicle.
• Family D – a single dad who has a rare medical issue and has two very little ones at the house. They need a car.

These are but a few of the kinds of needs we get to help. 

Gift Card Drop Off Locations

• Mountain View High School, 3500 Mountain Lion Dr, Loveland, CO 80537

• Ozzies Body Shop and Automotive, 5280 N Garfield Ave, Loveland, CO 80538

• Grease Monkey, 1100 Eagle Dr, Loveland, CO 80537

• Loveland Coffee Company, 620 E 29th St, Loveland, CO 80538

• Loveland Mayor Jacki Marsh at Rabbask Designs, 243 E. 4th Street, Loveland, CO 80537

• Dark Heart Coffee Bar, 419 N Jefferson Ave, Loveland, CO 80537

• Email us if your business wants to be a drop off location.

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Do a Gift Card drive in your office. Set a gathering date, promote it in your office/business, gather, inventory, seal in an envelope and call us. We will send a representative to receive the cards and deliver them to the single parents that need help the most.

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Car / Vehicle Donations

Case workers have called us and asked us to help some hard working single moms that do not have vehicles. We are asking for dependable, good running vehicles that do not have engine or transmission problems. It doesn’t have to be in perfect shape by any means, but it does need to have a history of being dependable.  All vehicles will be checked over by the mechanics at Ozzies body shop. For more information on gifting a vehicle please contact Bill directly at 970-541-9673 or Bill@theWellLoveland.com

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She was almost aborted by her mom, raped by her dad and his friends as a child until she was 8, married later and that turned into a bad situation, had a child ran over by a car while riding his bike, and now she and her five kids face eviction from their house and the loss of their car. God keeps sending us single moms in the Loveland area who have been through the greatest suffering. This week is one of those weeks.

She gave us permission to share her story. We want to protect her identity, so her picture is not available.

Her Story

Her mom tried to abort her as a baby, but aborted her unknown twin sister instead. She was sex-trafficked by her father until age 8 and he abandoned her. She said, “He sold me to his friends for sexual favors in exchange for money so he could go drink. I have memories of sitting on his lap while he held me down while they raped me.” And “I spent my whole life growing up thinking he never wanted me and I was worthless.”

Now, this single mom (five kids at the house) was married to a closet alcoholic, who was involved in pornography, a financial wreck, and abusive. She went to a spiritually abusive church which said she could not divorce her abusive husband. Not only was she abused horribly by her biological father as a child, now she was being abused by her husband.

She said to me…  “So fast forward 17 years after that. In the middle of that time period, my son was killed in a car accident. In 2001, I was 8 months pregnant with my second daughter and he was hit while riding his bike. … There’s a lot of other stuff in my past but perseverance is a trait that God has developed in me my entire life.”

She is a very hard working single mom working from home developing a business to provide websites for businesses.

Her Needs

She said, “I have been able to stay on track and pay my living expenses for the past 3 years but just barely. I have learned to continue pressing onward against everything that appears to be coming against me.”

She continued by saying, “We are living on very small amounts of food, whatever I can get from the food bank. My internet has been shut off, my phone will be shut off next week, my computer which I have to use for working is ready to die and randomly shuts off. NONE OF THAT MATTERS!  GOD ALONE IS MY SOURCE. That is one of the deepest lessons I have had to learn through all of this and it has been hard fought and hard-earned. But I don’t question it at all anymore. Right now I need $1,600 for my rent today or my landlord will file the first notice giving me 3 days to cure it or be evicted. I absolutely without a doubt trust that God will provide and work in my situation.”

Bill and Stephanie Stevens

The Well is a faith-based ministry that believes the message of Christ is the answer to the world’s problems today. We believe everyone needs to see the Love of Christ and to hear the message of the Love of Christ. The Well is funded by people who believe the same thing and want to spread the message of the love of Christ! Your donations help support this ministry of serving others!

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Our Night Before Christmas

On the night before our snowy Christmas, in a crowded store, our checkout clerk broke down in uncontrollable sobs. I had just told her how The Well helps hurting, abused, and even homeless single moms. She told me that she had lost her apartment a few days before and was staying at a cheap roach motel. She looked like anyone’s mom. All the local social services were closed for The holiday and she was out of money. She was about to be on the street on Christmas Day.

Why didn’t she go to a church for help? She did. A pastor gave his word to help and later changed his mind. (I spoke to him personally and found that this is exactly what happened.)

But we got the blessing!! The Well helped her stay in the hotel over Christmas until she could move to be with family out of state, which she did.

Breaking your word is bad enough, but going back on a promise to help a desperate person could drive them to hopeless despair. Aren’t you glad Christ doesn’t break his word? Colorado is #6 in suicide nationally, and the Loveland area leads the state. Vulnerable people are driven to homelessness and hopelessness constantly as the cost of living rises. Imagine your rent increasing by $200 at a time when you are a fixed income or a minimum wage, single income household.

The Well is a faith-based ministry that believes the message of Christ is the answer to the world’s problems today. We believe everyone needs to see the Love of Christ and to hear the message of the Love of Christ.

The Well is funded by people who believe the same thing and want to spread the message of the love of Christ!

We need your help to continue this ministry each month. Each month is a walk of faith to do ministry and meet the monthly obligations of this ministry. First, we need your prayers for greater expansion of this work. Second, we ask you to pray and ask the Father how you might help financially support this ministry. Please let us know how we can pray for you!

Because of our Gracious God and His generous people we were able to help 88 people in 2017!

• Groceries for a single mom and her two little kids who had been abandoned by her husband. She had no job.

• Groceries for a single mom going through surgery. She and seven kids had been abandoned by her husband and she was cleaning houses full time.

• Beds for a single mom who is on the heart transplant list and her two little kids.

• A bus ticket for a repentant homeless man trying to get home and make things right with his family.

• Beds for an abused and homeless single mom who fled another state and landed in Loveland. She found refuge at a local non-profit, got a job, and then on the day she was moving into her apartment we were able to deliver her beds for her 2-year-old little girl and 10-month-old boy.

• Box beds and bed frames for a viciously abused mom and her kids from another state who landed in Loveland. They had an apartment and were sleeping on the floor.

• A young church planter. We gave him our iPad to help him in his education and training.

• Beds for an 18 year old homeless couple – she had been abused by her alcoholic father and fled.

• 15 homeless men and women who need sleeping bags and food.

• Groceries for 6 high school families who were in extreme poverty and some are homeless.

• Clothes and shoes for a single mom who had adopted 3 orphans.

• Help for a homeless working mom in a desperate housing situation.

• Countless Bibles to people going through trouble.

• Shared the Love of Christ with dozens of people!

• _____________  Will you help put the next family’s name here?

The Well is a faith-based ministry that believes the message of Christ is the answer to the world’s problems today. We believe everyone needs to see the Love of Christ and to hear the message of the Love of Christ. The Well is funded by people who believe the same thing and want to spread the message of the love of Christ!

Each month is a walk of faith for this ministry. We do not have a guaranteed number of supporters who provide for all of the expenses each month. Each month we are walking on water, trusting Jesus to provide the needs of this ministry. Please pray for us, and pray about how our Father might have you to partner with us financially to support this ministry!

Please let us know how we can pray for you!

Blessings

Bill & Stephanie Stevens

Bill@TheWellLoveland.com