East St. Louis DREAM Center // October 2013 News
Rachel Buttig
 Rachel Buttig
 Founder/Executive Director
 East St. Louis DREAM Center
VOLUNTEER  

Computer/Web Site Technician Needed!
 
In the weekly operations of the Dream Center, we regularly need work done on our computers, our new web site or blog. We often find ourselves spending hours on Google, pulling our hair out, trying to figure out how to fix things, lol!

It would be a HUGE BLESSING to have someone who is an expert in this area and has a natural gifting with computers, web sites and coding.

It would be ideal to have a list of volunteers who are skilled in this area. This would help with availability and spreading the tasks out over a group of people instead of just one person.

Thank you for your consideration in helping us with this VERY IMPORTANT part of the Dream Center.  

Time Requirements: 
  • As needed and whatever works best for your schedule

E-MAIL US TO VOLUNTEER!

 
New Web Site!

We're excited to announce that we have a brand new website for the DREAM Center! This new web site creatively portrays who we are as a ministry and the beauty of the young people and city we serve.

I hope you enjoy it! Be encouraged and inspired as you browse through it and see first hand the work you are a part of building and creating.

THANK YOU for helping us continue to pour the LOVE OF GOD into the lives of the precious young people of East St. Louis!

I ask that you SHARE our new web site with at least FIVE people, either through forwarding this email or sharing the web site link on Facebook or your SOCIAL MEDIA of choice.

Thank you for being our BEST AND MOST FAITHFUL ADVOCATES! You're the ones who are helping us spread the news that East St. Louis is a city worth investing in.

DONATE NOW to help us faithfully continue the assignment that God has given us.... TO UNLOCK DREAMS, MENTOR CHAMPIONS AND REVIVE EAST ST. LOUIS.  

 

We have raised 56% of our needed funds for this year.      

 

   

 

Giving can be easily done on-line or mailed. Checks can be written to ESL DC and sent to the address at the bottom of this email.   

Taking Risks
  
Lately, the Holy Spirit has been regularly nudging me to TAKE RISKS in various areas of my life. Risks are scary!

But, I felt encouraged by God as He kept nudging me to take these risks. Often, when God is calling us to do hard things, we encourage ourselves by saying, "It's just one step of faith at a time."

Risk taking can be comparable to taking steps of faith. So, when you feel like God is nudging you to do hard things or take scary, yet exciting risks, I encourage you to think of it this way... "IT'S JUST ONE RISK AT A TIME."

Maybe these are some of the areas that you're afraid to take a risk in:
  • Calling a loved one who you've put off calling
  • Breaking out of a box that others have put you in
  • Taking one step closer to your dream
  • Signing up for a class (art, a new language, a new skill) 
  • OR anything that could potentially fail

Our prayer for you is that you would step out in a WILD ADVENTURE with God, that's often filled with daily "risks." You can do it, because you only have to do it ONE RISK AT A TIME. We believe in you!    

 

In this ADVENTURE with you,  

Rachel and the DREAM Center Team