Supplying Needs Pictures Plus Dad & Mom Wendle

My (Dess) parents came for 3 nights. We were a pit stop on their way to Hawaii. And my thought was we were going to have a nice quiet time with them since January was so quiet for Supplying Needs. But that did not happen. Both full days they were here we were running around picking up and dropping off food. Which they said they loved because they got a taste of what we did. YEAH!!! Mom took some pictures which we are very excited about because we never have our camera with us and there is only Joel and I and we need all hands on deck to do the work. SO enjoy some of my parents as well as action photos of Supplying Needs.

Dad Loading up Canned Goods for a church.

Pastor Joshua excited about receiving food!!!!

Posing for the camera
Getting loaded up with Yogurt
After we load the groups up with food we pray for them.

Joel Stacking some Greens.

Joel on the phone with another group to see if they want any food we have.

Awww Joel and Mom Wendle

Awww Me and my Dad!!!

Revelation (Not the book)

I had the most interesting revelation today that I can't help but share. I was going over in my head how blessed I feel with a list of all the things that have been happening to Joel and I personally.

1) Joel just got a super nice nice 4 burner barbecue with a one stove burner on one side and a sink on the other side for 15 dollars through craigslist. No propane tank but when we talked to Dad and Mom Mountejoy Dad had four and gave one to Joel. And the guy that Joel bought the barbecue from said he had several emails from people wanting the barbecue but no one came to pick it up. Thanks God!!!

2) Had a weekend get away for two nights in a nice nice hotel that we got for half the price through priceline.com

3) There are times when it is really really really tight with money. Like I know I shouldn't worry because God knows what we need and how much we need in our account but I still tend to put my fist around our money and try to hold on but God always reminds me to have an open hand policy. Any way getting off the subject I feel actually like we have above and beyond what we could want. Which is really awesome and puts me in awe of God.

4) I was looking down at my outfit today as I was going through the list of blessings Joel and I have been receiving and noticed that I had on brand new boots bought by Mom Mountjoy the day before, pants and a tank top undershirt that was given to me by God through a donation, my shirt and beautiful coach was bought by my friend named Theresa and my scarf was from Mom Mountjoy for Christmas. I felt spoiled to say the least.

I later told Joel about my counting my blessing list and how we had everything we need and I almost said EVERYTHING we want but stopped myself. And then started to ramble off to Joel that I had four wants but ONLY God could provide for those four wants!!!

Joel started to Guess
1) Warehouse
2) Dog
3) He wasn't so sure about. I told him it was a place of our own. And said I would love to live at the warehouse but not ever warehouse house has accomidations for living and I am not counting on it. So it is still on my list to have our own place.

yeah I said Four but Joel didn't answer and I am not about to tell ya. LOL hehehe YOu can make your own guessing game for that.

Any way Then I started to think these past two years in Stockton (yeah crazy or what Two years at the end of march. ANY WAY) So for the past two years in STockton the times I would throw a tantrum with God was mainly over these 4 things. Mostly a warehouse, food for people, and a place to live. That God had taken care of all our needs in the most amazing way and maybe I should stop and realize that God knows what we need when we need it and I need to stop throwing fits or getting distracted over wants.

That was my revelation today. Pray for me so I can remain focused on what God is doing and that our NEEDS ARE supplied. And God did promise me one day that when we NEEDED a warehouse He WOULD provide one. The warehouse is just a want at this point.

So thanks for bearing with me through that. I thought it was a pretty interesting revelation.

Love all ya'll,
Dess

And This Same God who takes care of me will Supply all your Needs according to His glorious riches which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.

For Real? 2010 Gone??? But Where

Yeah it is so true 2010 came an left already. Where did the time go. For the past few years i have been posting the high lights of Joel's and my adventure. Just didn't do it this year. SO I guess I will be a little later. Bare with me but enjoy.

Mid Jan- Grocery Store had a fire and they gave us all the food in the grocery store which turned out to be over 25,000 dollars worth of food. And Supplying Needs first big donation.

Feb- Started Adopt-a-Block Minsitries at our church. Where we adopted 1 apartment complex and knock on 40 doors every saturday to meet a need, build a relationship, and share the love of Christ.

March- Dess went to belize and met the most wonderful couple in the world Jervis and Melissa who started a christain orphange there. And I met some other awesome folks as well.

April-August- Received off and on Wholesale donations

June- Visisted the Wendle Family for 2 weeks in Washington/Idaho.

July- Celebrated 6 years of wonderful marriage

September - a Grocery store started donating to us 6 days a week. Oh yeah. Thank you Jesus

Oct-Went to LA to visit some friends and Friend Ships

Sept-Dec - recieved a ton of donations and ended the year with God providing over 200,000 dollars worth of food, clothes, and buidling supplies.

Crazy what God can do in a year. Thanks for swinging by for a looky. Stay tuned to a Joel and Dess near you to see what God will do next in the world of Supplying Needs.

Love love love all ya'll,
Dess

Families Provided For. Our God Rocks!!!

Don't know if you know it but Joel and I are over a ministry at our church called Adopt-a-block (AAB) where we have adpoted an apartment complex and go there every week to build relationships with the people and meet their needs. There is mom of a family that has been asking me 4 or 5 times if our church would provide a christmas for them since they could not afford it. We agreed the first time so I laughed every time it was brought up thinking "Did she not remember that she had asked me already. or Doesn't she know I want to help her family out???" Any way her and husband when they got married combined thier kids and had some of their own so they have a total of 11 kids. But she only asked if we could provide christmas for the two youngest ones.

I have been praying about this for a while and wondering how we are going to do it. Since the people that do AAB with us are mostly 17 and under. With only 3 consistant adults. I thought maybe I could make a list and divide up what we need to give them a christmas. It was mainly hanging over my head with no real good answer.

THen one day we get a call from a guy who goes to the church and works at a fast food place. He said every year they adopt a family and give them christmas by providing 2,500 dollars worth of food and presents. And this year they had no clue who to give to so we came to his mind that we would know a family in need. So he told his boss and his boss said get on it. He gave me the number of the lady in charge of adopting a christmas family. For 2 weeks I was in shock thinking they will probably say thanks but no thanks we have some one else in mind. But they are actually doing it. And they want to be anonomous. Can you believe it. I am so excited. Now the whole family gets a christmas. Isn't that just wonderful.

And I got another email from a girl that goes to my church that says she is in a club that wants to adopt a family and I have one that is living in a hotel and is going through a rough time.

And there was another family at AAB that needed a couch and love seat. They had nothing in thier living room. I sent out a note on FB and with in 10 minutes someone told me about a couple that had a couch and love seat to give a way. They not only gave me those two items but lamps and a chair and a coffee table. How awesome is that?

I am blown away by God and HIs provision. In Matthew it says "You need to seek God's Kingdom First and His Righteousness and then everything you need will be given to you." I am putting in my own words. So in other words I need to do what God is asking me to do and surrender my life so He can help me be more like Christ and He will help me with ALL my needs. What an awesome God I serve.

Thank you Jesus!!!

God must laugh at us

So much is happening I hope I can describe to you well.

We had a friend email us about a month ago asking if we got any donations for baby items for a christian organization that helps pregnant teens. I Replied and said no, we do not get in anything for babies very often and it is very little when it does come in.

Last week we got in a truck load of assorted food, pet food, bottled water, and non-edible products. Usually we get one or two banana boxes of baby formula. This time we got 18 banana boxes of formula. The more we went throught the boxes to organize them the more frustrated I got because I wanted adult food NOT baby food. And I knew this had to be Diahanna. So I called her and the first thing I said was "I am going to kick your butt"
"What, hello Dess. What did I do."
"You have been praying for the babies haven't you"
"What Babies"
"The Organization that helps babies"
"What????"
"The place you emailed me about a month ago"
"Oh Yes I have been praying"
"A lot?"
"I was praying a lot"
"Well God listened to you because I wanted adult food but instead He listened to your prayers and gave us baby formula and other items"

I told her how much we got in and she squeeled for joy for about 5 minutes. We talked some more. Then last night I got a call from a friend who just got a new job with a food company and said she had baby items for us. Now I know I need to tell my friend to stop praying for all this baby items!!! LOL

The other story I want to tell you is this morning I was spending time with God and He told me to call a certain company that had said yes to us last month but has not given to us yet. I was dreading it because I had called for 2-3 months asking them to donate and they finally said yes but never followed through. I knew I would have to call them and give a friendly reminder we were still wanting their non-sellable products if they had any. I just hate felling pushing.

So when God told me to call i knew I needed to be obedient but it was a struggle. All morning it kept coming to my mind but I was in the middle of something finally around noon I called my contact. As I was dialing and then the phone was ringing I said about 4 or 5 times "I am doing this to be obedient God, Please do not let them pick up. .. . . . I am doing this to be obedient please do not let them pick up. . . . I am doing this to be obedient please let me leave a message"
Probably 90 percent of the time they have not picked up but today was different. My contact answered and I said who I was and who I was with and asked if he had any non-sellable products for us. Surprisingly he said yes and to come by next week to pick up. Then he mentioned with a question mark about our truck. I assured him we had a refrigerated box truck that could hold 6 pallets. And he said suprised 6 pallets was exactly what he had for us.

God must laugh at me constantly. I told my sister the 2nd story and she said God must have been laughing while I was praying for them to not pick up and He must of thought "But I am trying to bless you."

God has got to laugh at us during our day.

Love,
the Butlers

Supplying Needs Sept. & Oct UPDATE

Supplying Needs’ Happenings

September and October 2010

Since Supplying Needs was created in May of 2009, this has been our busiest two months. Our operations have been picking up steam like a train, slow at first, but the momentum is gaining. This update covers September and October 2010.

One of the biggest events is that we’ve made contact with some new wholesalers in Stockton who have generously given to our organization. We appreciate all our donors whether private or corporate, retail or wholesale. With the volume of product donated by wholesalers we are able to meet more needs.

From wholesalers we have been given the following:

3060 frozen 12” pizzas and approximately 22000 personal sized pizzas

These pizzas were not able to be used for their intended purpose, but because of the generosity of the donor, these pizzas were able to make huge impact in the Stockton area.

1234 baking mixes, such as cake, scone and cookie mix

2600 boxes of popcorn

We were extremely pleased with this donation, especially since it is the season to celebrate the harvest and give away candy. I’m sure that there will be lots of children receiving some sort of popcorn treat in their goodie bags. We were able to distribute this popcorn to 8 different groups.

Besides the wholesalers we have recently started picking up from a retail grocery store on a daily basis, 6 days a week. This has been something we’ve been trying to do since our beginning and we are very excited to see how well it is working out. We started off picking up bread from this store and through the efforts of the store manager; the doors were opened to receive ALL the non-sellable products from the store. In just a little over two months we have received 3467 pounds of produce, 2367 loaves of bread plus meat, cheese, deli and frozen goods. This food goes out daily to a different group each day of the week for their food outreaches. It is awesome to know that this food is helping groups reach out to more people in their surrounding area.

Some other donations we received were 7214 containers of yogurt, 254 jugs of juice and two truck loads (12 pallets) of assorted drinks, sauces, dry goods, canned goods, bottled water, pet food and household items.

On a monthly basis Supplying Needs distribute donations free of charge to approximately 1140 people directly and through groups we give to. We are excited to see the difference that is being made and the support these groups are receiving.

How You Can Help:

If you would like to help Supplying Needs efforts to reaching the poor, hungry, homeless, and elderly you can:

1) Help with Finances. As an organization we operate on a minimal budget. ALL PROCEEDS are used to further our efforts in reaching people. We use the money that comes in with our day to day operating expenses such as vehicle licensing, insurance, fuel, etc. All our staff are 100 percent unpaid volunteers and we do all we can to maintain low overhead costs. Any financial support is appreciated and can be mailed to:

Supplying Needs

P.O. Box 473

Stockton, CA

95201

2) You can pray for Supplying Needs. We value your prayers. If you would like to be a part of our prayer team and receive monthly prayer updates, please send an email to supplyingneedsprayer@gmail.com.

Thank you for all your support, encouragement and prayers. We really appreciate you!

God Bless,

Joel Butler

President

Desire of The Heart: From a Bad thing to a blessing

As you know Supplying Needs has a 6 pallet refrigerated box truck. What you may not know is that since we have received the truck free of charge Joel has been wanting a paint job for it. We have almost had that truck for a year now. And Joel will bring it up every once in a while how bad he wants to have the truck get a beautiful paint job.

You may also know that being we have a limited budget for our ministry that was a want and not a need. As always when he brought it up I would just smile and say "Honey I am sorry. You are right it does need one but we can't do it right now." Or something along those lines.

You may not know that we have been parking the truck at our churches parking lot. I don't know how many times I have prayed for our truck that God would send angels around it to protect our truck. Our church is in a not so nice neighborhood. And God would continue to answer those prayers.

Just recently our church had a walk/run/bike-a-thon. They asked us to move the truck. So Joel back it up against the churches brick wall. During this time some one(s) came and tagged (aka graffiti) our truck. Can you believe it. Bright red too. The crazy thing was that our truck was parked not more than 5 feet from the church bus and it didn't get tagged, NOT ONE BIT. I was thinking "God what are you doing?" How crazy is that. Both the vehicles are bright white both are sitting by each other and only ours got tagged. Things that make you go hm.

JOel went right to work the next day cleaning and sanding the truck for paint job. It would not have been the best paint job since we don't have any equipment. He was doing sanding and washing the truck when a guy that works at the church during the week came out to see Joel. The man heard our story and told Joel that his son is a professional painter. All I know is Joel got the paint and the son painted our Truck for FREE!!! It looks brand new. The paint job is awesome and Joel got his hearts desires.

LOOK AT GOD!!!

God works in mysterious ways. & His ways are not OUR ways!!

In Awe of our Great Big GOD!!!
The Butlers