Happy Anniversary – 30 Years
By the time you read this newsletter, Janey and I will be celebrating our 30th anniversary! What a wonderful journey we have been on ministering together for 23; 6 years as youth ministers as well as serving 9 years at Gospel for Asia, 4 years at Servant Christian Community Foundation and now 31/2 years at Serve India Ministries. And after 20 wonderful years together, we welcomed Benjamin in our family. Truly I am a very blessed man and I have been given the woman of my dreams and an amazing man of God in Benjamin. Pray that I will be a good steward of all that God has so lovingly given me! I posted our family history on the back of this letter.

Ministry News
Once again we are excited to host 45 young people from Global Expeditions on our mission fields in South India. These young people are extraordinary in their love and zeal for Jesus
and are serving our village pastors with humility and are a great blessing! Brother Ebey and our leaders are bringing 300 more pastors into partnership with serve India. That will make 1300 by the end of the year. We are also working to raise enough funding so that we can add 5000 more children to our Stepping Stone Centers through “The Egg Project.” Each child only cost $36 (each $36 donation is an Egg) for a whole year of tutorial center ministry! http://www.serveindiaministries.org/get-involved/the-egg-project/

Family News
Benjamin is doing amazing with his violin. I am amazed at the confidence he has and being only 9 years old. We went to Arkansas last weekend and he got to give his grandparents some private concerts! He is now a 6th grader and will begin his Monarch homeschoolurriculum in September. Janey continues to consult the headache center and they are piecing together all the clues to why she has headaches, meanwhile she is receiving physical therapy to loosen up tension in her neck. Even with the headaches, she is so amazingly cheerful and her smile lights up a room .

Support Update
We have very good news concerning our support needs. With the reserve that God provided, we have been able to make it through the summer in good shape and cover the higher utility bills. So many of you have been so generous and given sacrificially. I pray that our ministry is an ncouragement to you. Your love, prayer and support is the manifestation of God’s grace. I pray that you and you’re your families are eternally blessed by the love and the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

God bless you, Michael, Jane and Benjamin Erwin

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Support Update

We have very good news concerning our support needs. Thank you for praying and thank you for giving. As we shared with you last month, we have 2 primary goals concerning our support needs:

#1 Monthly Partners. Goal: $300 per month of additional monthly support and #2 a 3 month reserve for our support account.

• Update, we have a commitment for $300 per month of new support.
• Update, we have raised the 3 month reserve for our ministry account.

We give God the glory for His great provision and I pray that God may richly bless each one of you who have been so kind and generous toward our ministry support.As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

God bless you, Michael, Jane and Benjamin Erwin

The Egg Project is Here!

We chose an egg as the symbol of this project for many reasons. In the Serve India Stepping Stone Centers ministry, each child is given the daily snack of one boiled egg—a wholesome snack to fill up bellies that are often empty. Further, the egg is a symbol of life and complete nutrition in all cultures. Among Christians, historically the egg has been seen as representative of the empty tomb and Christ's resurrection. For all of these reasons, in honor of this, we are calling each $36 donation an "egg."

What is the Egg Project?
The Egg Project is Serve India's campaign to support our Stepping Stone Tutoring Centers in India. Stepping Stone tutoring is a holistic after-school program designed to develop children in three important ways: education, character, and health. The centers are located across rural India and serve the local villages by serving children ages 6 to 14 from poor communities and various religious backgrounds. The egg as the center's daily snack lends its name to this project, which raises children’s awareness of, and commitment to, a holistic lifestyle centered on Christ, the Creator of life. The goal for "The Egg Project" is to help 5,000 children by receiving 5,000 eggs. Read more at http://www.serveindiaministries.org/get-involved/the-egg-project/

Family News

Jane and Benjamin are doing well, and I am so blessed to have
them in my life. Benjamin has already outgrown his bicycle and his violin. It is a good thing we rent the violin so we can trade it in. Our family will be traveling this weekend to one of our favorite families: the Ferraros in Jacksonville, Illinois. The Ferraros have 10 children; our very social son Benjamin is in heaven when he is around all those other kids.

Janey has had a series of tests done to learn more about why she has migraine headaches. The tests included two MRIs, sleep study and physical therapy. By God's grace she will find some relief and even complete healing. Benjamin is getting some private lessons on his violin this summer and doing very well, making great progress. He is also learning the mandolin and is able to learn a lot of songs because the fingering is similar to the violin.