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FEDERAL METHAMPHETAMINE SEIZURES – 2005

Meth value at this time was approximately $12,800 per pound
Texas 994 pounds
Arizona 371 pounds
California 365 pounds
Florida 191 pounds
Illinois 191 pounds
Iowa 175 pounds
Georgia 170 pounds
Oregon 119 pounds
Colorado 119 pounds
Nebraska 106 pounds
Washington 101 pounds
Nevada 99 pounds
Indiana 69 pounds
New Mexico 68 pounds
Tennessee Federal 65 pounds
Virginia 42 pounds
North Carolina 40 Pounds
Kansas 39 pounds
Alabama 38 pounds
Wisconsin 37 pounds
Idaho 34 pounds
Missouri 33 pounds
Oklahoma 32 pounds
Pennsylvania 31 pounds
Wyoming 29 pounds
New York 27 pounds
Arkansas 20 Pounds
Utah 15 pounds
Kentucky 11 pounds
North Dakota 11 pounds
South Carolina 10 pounds
South Dakota 8 pounds
Montana 7 pounds
Michigan 5 pounds
Minnesota 5 pounds
Louisiana 4 pounds
Mississippi 3 pounds
Ohio 3 pounds
Delaware 1 pound
Maryland 1 pound
New Jersey 1 pound
West Virginia 1 pound Connecticut None
Maine None
Massachusetts None
New Hampshire None
Rhode Island None
Vermont None
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Commemorative Gifts
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s From: Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Judd
Mr. & Mrs. Don Taylor

Keith & Carol Heck

 Our focus is upon the Lord and His
great goodness to us over the last
several years. Have we had problems
and challenges? Certainly. But we are
also confident that we walk with a
Savior who takes our weaknesses and
glorifies Himself through them.
 Please, be sure to be with us for our
Banquet. It is always a highlight of
your year’s labors and this year will be
no different.
 The foundation for Phase II is com-
pleted. It is now able to “hibernate” as
we await the Lord’s financial support
to see the building take place. This
entire project is so far beyond what
any of us could ever have brought
about by our own efforts that the
glory for its progress and ultimate
completion will reflect glory upon
glory unto our God.
 What a delight it was for me to put
this issue together. Even as I read and
re-read the testimonies of Constance
and our other contributor my heart
was warmed by His goodness and
grace. What a God He is to take that
which is severely damaged and con-
fused by sin and apply straightening
grace.
 We desperately need some regular
and dependable handyman helpers!
Please read page 4 and see if this is
something that you might want to
do.
Thank you for blessing us
in this wonderful way.
Constance Sloan: A Trophy of God’s Amazing Grace!
Remember Constance Sloan? In the Lord’s kindness He brought her to
us at the Mission several years ago. Over time all of us have been greatly
blessed by His working in and through her. Recently, Rogue Community
College [RCC] included her story in their newsletter. Let me quote a
couple of sections of that newsletter.
“Two years ago when Constance Sloan first came to RCC she could
read at only an early elementary school level.
Since then she has been studying in the Redwood Campus Learning
Center, filling in the gaps of an education - and a life - once derailed by
drug abuse.
Sloan, who had never before read a book, also belongs to the RCC
Learning Center’s book club.
If I don’t know a word, I’ll write it down and look it up,” I’m not ashamed anymore to say
I don’t know. What hurts is to not ask.”
Sloan started drinking at 8 then dropped out of school at age 13. When she reached her
20s, drugs, including meth, “took over everything,” she says.
Eventually, drug abuse took its inevitable toll and Sloan “hit rock bottom. I lived here and
there, on the streets,” she says.
In 1999 Sloan went to the Gospel Rescue Mission, and while working with a 12-step pro-
gram, she started turning her life around.
“I began taking classes at church to overcome some painful episodes and to become a
better person,” she explained.
Reading at kindergarten level, she studied with Literacy Council tutor Marcia Lembcke, a
retired elementary teacher.
“She had a lot of patience,” Sloan said. I had to learn from square one; I had no idea of
how to sound out words.”
“When I do get my GED, it will be the greatest accomplishment of my whole life” she
said.
If you would like to read this entire article go to our website, www.gospelrescuemissiongp.org and
click on Women’s Work, then click on the file: GED Student Earns Instructor’s Respect.

 Over the years our printers, Gene and
Renee Sibet at Morningstar Press in
Rogue River, have blessed us again
and again by their professionalism
but even more by their friendship. If
you have any printing needs you
might call Gene at 582-3244; you
won’t be disappointed.
If there were a quotation that I wish could be better known, un-
derstood and internalized by more of us, it would be the following:
"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant suc-
cess is achieved" (Anne Sullivan).
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THANK YOU FOR THE WAY YOU CARED S T IL L

FOR US OVER THE LAST MANY MONTHS!
NEEDED - HANDYMEN OR WOMEN
We have, through the kindness of a mission friend, PLEA SE
a KitchenAid food processor. We need to have some retired folks! If you are looking for
some meaningful labor to do to keep you busy -
It would be very helpful for us, in order to use this WE NEED YOU!
blessing even better, if we had the following attach-
ments…. Are you a Jack-of-all-trades kind of person who has a day
or two a week to fix up broken locks, re-plaster and re-
Food Grinder paint walls as well as a host of other “little work” that just
must get done around our places?
Slicer / Shredder Interested? Call Kevin today at 659-8470 and talk to him
about volunteering as a handyman or woman. He can talk
Citrus Juicer to you about needs as well as establishing some sort of
schedule. You need to get out of the house and our house
would love to have you for a day.

NEEDS FOR OUR 47% of Phase II need met!

RESIDENCES

Needed Food Items

$3,500,000.00
Luncheon Meat - Eggs - Mayon-
naise - Ketchup - Oil - Soup - Salt -
Butter - Pepper - Crackers - Mus-
tard - Milk $3,000,000.00

Paper Products

Sandwich Bags - Paper Towels $2,500,000.00

Other Items $2,000,000.00

Bleach [Always needed] - Razors

Deodorant - Foot Powder
- Shampoo - Feminine Hygiene $1,500,000.00
Products - Bar Soap - Laundry
Detergent
$1,000,000.00

AND
Toilet Paper $500,000.00
This on-going need! We are aver-
aging 93 people per day staying
with us. ‘nuff said? Your care for
$-
our regular need is truly appreci-
ated. TOTAL NEED TOTAL PAID TO DATE TOTAL AVAILABLE

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PRAISE GOD! PRAISE GOD! HIS REDEMPTIVE WORK IS GLORIOUS TO BEHOLD! I received a letter from a former resi-
dent and simply must share part of it with you in order that you might see some of the results of your prayers and caring for
this work.

“I told my [son] to eat his soup and he didn’t. I took him to the bathroom, spanked his rear, took him back and he ate it.
Oh, but the ugliness inside me. The irritation, the anger that he had been a brat, that he didn’t obey me, that he made lunch so
unpleasant. I could feel myself seething with self-righteousness and hatred toward him.
“After lunch he went off to play and I went to my room and cried. I was completely crushed by my inability to do anything
well. The reality of a woman who reads her kids stories about the great love of Jesus and then burns with hatred against a
three year old who won’t eat his soup struck me suddenly as incomparably hideous.
“The hypocrisy, the darkness, it seemed blasphemous to imagine this woman as a child of a righteous God. My self-satisfied
‘morality’ with my bitterness seemed so shameful I could not crawl out from the weight of it.
“ I was reminded of Jesus. I don’t know if He felt the burden and sorrow of sin for His whole life. He must have recognized
it, He must have seen it in His par- ents, His disciples and in strangers and ac-
quaintances. The pitiful ugliness of
of men when He came and when He
“The gentleness humanity is unbelievable. Jesus knew the hearts
went to the cross. He became sin on our be-
half. The shame of this one injustice
He walked with His disciples. He and love was seemed unbearable but Jesus knew that when
took that shame on Himself, as if it was all His
fault. He knew He would bear the full condemnation for their every idle word and He
still walked with them. He ate with
questions - He even laughed with
His and He gave them and talked with them and answered their
them and had a few goblets of wine. He love
them and called them His friends.
“So was feeling grateful and thank- it to me.” What a friend!
ing God when I again got discouraged. I be-
lieved that as soon as I stopped pray- ing I would just go out and be the same person.
I have confessed before but it never makes any difference. I feel bad but it doesn’t do anything. It all seemed so hopeless.
“I realized I was calling Him a liar. He said He would heal me, cleanse me of all unrighteousness and make me holy. He said
so and I quite simply don’t believe Him. It is an even worse sin than the first, to not trust a friend like Him. I asked the Father
for His righteousness - not some day hypothetical righteousness - real, living, effectual, fruitful righteousness. Jesus did not say
He would label me righteous but leave me as filthy and lost as before in my daily reality. He promised that I could live in Him
and He in me and I could have peace like a river and righteousness like the waves of the sea. He promised that I could ask the
Father in His name and because of His position the Father would give me what I asked for. He promised that His holiness
would be in me. I asked for His love in me.
“I felt His power in me. I saw my children with God’s love. I laughed with them and saw their fragile beauty. I was quick to
do what was kind for those around me, I was patient, humble and so, so thankful for every good thing I did. I could see each
right thought and action as a fulfillment of His promise and a token of His love for me. This Jesus is in heaven and He asked the
Father and the Father made me holy. The Holy Spirit is in me showing me all these things. The gentleness and love was His and
He gave it to me. I was not trying to do right and succeeding, I just saw things his way and reacted his way. I was filled with the
Holy Spirit.
“Jesus was faithful to His promise. I had been asking for faith and renewal and in His mercy He proved Himself again. He will
make me to stand, He will set my feet in high places and give rest to my soul. I need only trust my dear Friend.
“Reading back over this it seems like I’m saying I was instantly glorified upon request but I don’t mean that at all. It was just
one day, one afternoon. But that day it was like a little glimmer of heaven, just enough to remind me of the hope I carry in me.
Just enough to keep me waiting for my promised portion in the Kingdom. There is a King and He not only prepares a place for
me but has also started to prepare me for that place.”

WOW! I trust that you have been blessed, and will be blessed even as you read this testimony again, to realize this is just one
person, just one, in whom you have been enabled to play a small part through your prayers and care for this work. “How good
is the God we adore, our faithful, unchangeable Friend, whose love is as great as His power and knows neither measure nor
end.”

I trust that you will overlook the length of this article - it’s not proper according to all of the publishing rules - and just enjoy
the goodness of God at work in the life of one of His precious servants.
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ANNUAL MISSION BANQUET

Friday, April 6, 2007
Starting at 6:00, ending no later than 9:00

Please, do not forget to call and reserve your place with us.

You have until April 3rd to call 476-0082 and place your reservations.

Josephine County Fairgrounds is where we meet.

Derrold & Tammy Kinzel - How you have
blessed them!
There will be great food
Derrold’s health issues will only be finally
healed in heaven. greater fellowship

He is still struggling with the effects of bleeding great testimonies of the Lord’s faithfulness
on his brain and that continues to cause some and
severe headaches. a Look Back and Look Ahead

You have greatly assisted them in helping to to thank the Lord for His faithfulness
remove some of the financial pressures. This
will allow them to get “caught up” instead of
to be challenged by what He will yet do through us all.
always being behind, playing catch-up. To date,
you provided a little over $800.00 for which
both Derrold and Tammy express their deepest This year you must have a ticket to gain entrance
appreciation.
NO TICKET - NO BANQUET

YOUR DONATIONS GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION

MEETING OUR NEEDS Facts & Figures
February 2007
Men’s Shelter Ray Allen Center
244 NE E Street 243 NE D Street  Meals served …………………………… 5,325
Phone: 479-8869 Phone: 476-3399
For Men wanting drug  Beds Used [Daily Average].....…………… 109
and alcohol recovery  Ray Allen Center [Daily Average] ……… 23
Fikso Family Center 2nd Chance Thrift Store [This is our drug & Alcohol Recovery Center]
530 SW Foundry Street 6th & J Streets  Chapel Attendance [Daily Average]..…… 73
Phone: 474-7774 Phone: 479-9748
For Women & Children M-F 9:30 - 4:30
Sat 9:30 - 4:00 Your active participation through prayer and finances has
accomplished much for many needy and hurting people.
CURRENTLY CLOSED
RE-CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN On behalf of each resident, thank you so much!
SCHEDULED FOR OPENING - May 15th!
Community Recycling Center
1010 SW Foundry
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It is hard for us to think

of children as drug
addicts.

But so many of them are

born drug
affected.

Too often their smiles

are only for the
moment.

Many have …. Great emotional struggles

Great intellectual challenges

Most of these struggles are not of their own making

Who’s Mommy? They are pretty certain

Who’s Daddy? They are not so certain.

2. Meth Seizures
3. God’s Trophy
3. Some Thoughts
4. Needs and Progress But they are just children.
5. Praise to our God
6. Kinzel update
How our hearts ache for their struggles.
6. Mission Banquet