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WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES Help. Hope. Healing. Easter 2017

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Addicted to meth and more alone than ever, Jason wandered into Wheeler Mission… and H met the best friend he’d O ever find. P

THROUGH YOUR SUPPORT, you share new hope with people like Jason

EHomeless Shelters • Residential Programs • Addiction Recovery • For Men and Women A Message from Rick “Playing in ‘100 Holes for the Homeless’ was a highlight of my 40 years as a PGA SHARING HOPE STARTS HERE Professional. It was an honor to use golf to What does it look like to share you and me through His glorious give back. I would hope? resurrection on Easter, you share encourage anyone Compared to a plate of His hope with men and women to help support this nourishing food or a warm blanket, through your prayers, your acts of great organization with it’s often hard to visualize how service and your generous financial your prayers, service and hope changes lives. support of this ministry. financial support. Looking But for the homeless and Thank you for sharing with our forward to 2017!” hurting people you’re helping community’s homeless – and for through your gifts, hope is making Wheeler Mission a refuge –Jack Barber, PGA Professional transforming their lives in very of encouragement and hope for Emeritus, Meridian Hills CC tangible ways. everyone in need. Take Jason who’s featured in this issue – at his lowest point, he turned to us. He didn’t know if a new life was even possible. Meals, shelter and care changed Jason’s life from the inside out. Experiencing God’s love showed 100 HOLES OF him that a new life is possible. He began believing in a better future – and began living that life every GOLF day!

When you see Jason today, Register now for our annual you see hope... made real in his 100 Holes for the Homeless golf life through your generosity. Rick Alvis, tournament on Monday, June 5th Just as Christ shared hope with President / CEO at Highland Golf & Country Club. Golfers help our community’s homeless by raising money as their entry fee – every $500 provides one of our guests with food, shelter and care for one month! THIS IS DANIEL. Get involved today! • Register to play “God had a new life for me and the • Support our golfers by donating Mission helped me find it.” at WheelerMission.org There are so many like Daniel – in need of • Become a tournament sponsor new hope for a new life. Tee up… and make a difference You can share new hope this Easter in homeless people’s lives at the by sharing meals, shelter and God’s Mission! love with homeless and hungry people. A meal is just $2.25! REGISTER NOW!  100HolesForTheHomeless.com Become a sponsor! Contact Brian:  Share online at WheelerMission.org.  [email protected]  Share now using the enclosed reply card + envelope.

Thank you for sharing new hope with hurting people in Central and South Central !

2 “WHEELER BROUGHT ME BACK TO LIFE.”

ason was born into a happy home, always lost jobs because I’d just stop our Addiction Recovery Program. Jbut he wasn’t happy. “I never showing up.” Through classes and counseling, he wanted for anything, but that didn’t With no income, Jason ended finally learned how to lean on God, stop me from causing havoc. I was up living in a house with other meth not just himself. always drinking, in trouble with the users. Someone was murdered behind “I’ve been to about every law, and dropped out of school at 16.” the house… then his roommates were program, battling for a long time, As an adult, he married and had caught with two pounds of meth but never knew what it would take to children… then began using serious during a police raid. That’s when change. When I met Jesus, I knew drugs, like meth. As his addiction Jason knew it was time to leave. I was on the way to something better.” Jason graduated “That first night at Wheeler, I gave my life to from our Addiction Recovery Program Christ… and I felt the change immediately.” and is now in our Servant Leadership grew, the trouble in his life “I had nowhere left to go,” he says. Training. He plans to pursue a career grew too. “I was broken. I needed a change. in ministry to serve others and share “Drugs really took over… and my So that night, I went to Wheeler his story of hope with them. life went downhill. I started breaking Mission’s Shelter for Men.” “I’m grateful that Wheeler into homes and stealing, and I went to Jason stepped into the Mission – brought me back to life and gave prison. It led to broken relationships and found the friend he needed. me a chance for restoration,” he with my family.” After encountering Jesus at says. “The people here didn’t know Jason’s drug use also made Wheeler Mission and accepting Him me, but they loved me when I needed keeping a steady job impossible. “I as his Savior, Jason decided to join it most.”

3 MARK YOUR CALENDAR 11/23/2017 Thursday THANK YOU! TO OUR GENEROUS DASH SPONSORS Huntington Bank ESPN 1070 The Fan Athletic Annex 98-7 The Song ASICS Clear Channel Outdoor OrthoIndy XFINITY Franklin College St. Vincent Kroger Barnes & Thornburg 2016 Starbucks Ray Skillman Auto Center Drumstick Dash Jay’s Moving Company Harbor Pictures Ambetter from MHS Freelance Graphics Supporting our community’s F.C. Tucker Company, Inc. Chicago’s Pizza homeless on Thanksgiving morning! Brewer Direct Geico Friends, family, coworkers, churches and United Hope Foundation/ Summers Plumbing people from all over Indiana packed the Lor Corp Heating & Cooling streets of Broad Ripple on Thanksgiving Printing Partners Jackson Oil & Solvents morning to benefit Wheeler Mission’s Connect Think Great Clips programs and services for hungry and K-LOVE FiberX homeless people in our community. Air1 IndyStar Thank you to the 20,000+ runners and Cumulus Radio Blonde Entertainment walkers and the 1,200+ volunteers for (WFMS, WJJK, The Beat) Frito Lay helping to make this one of the biggest WTHR 13 Hyatt Place running events in the country! 88.3 Shine.FM /Keystone

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2017 VISIT US ONLINE to learn more about our outreach, read stories of hope & securely donate anytime! +52,500 +22,500  WheelerMission.org C • A • M • P • A • I • G • N meals nights of shelter

Rick, here’s my Easter gift to share food, m Check enclosed m Bill my credit card m m m m care & hope with people in need:

m $20.25 to feed and care for 9 people CREDIT CARD # m $51.75 to feed and care for 23 people

m $76.50 to feed and care for 34 people EXP. DATE PHONE # m $______to help as much as possible  WheelerMission.org Donate now!  (317) 635-3575

______NAME Wheeler Mission ______ADDRESS P.O. Box 3085 ______Indianapolis, IN 46206-3085 CITY / STATE/ ZIP ______E-MAIL EAST17