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Well, Expo number 66 is in the books. God did a great work in East Tennessee pulling everything together, doing miracles and making ways so that our 16th annual outreach in the area could bless many individuals and families living with disabilities with the love and gospel of Jesus. 

With the water levels so low at the local lakes we had to move inland which was a first and East Tennessee. However, we have had to do that in Texas twice because of park flooding and both events were success so we knew God would bless people in Jesus’ name and East Tennessee, too. 

We had a great mix of new and usual activities so there were smiles to be seen all around. As always it was good to see some new faces as well as meet some new friends. :-) 

Our core team is getting a bit older but still has a great Philippians 4:13 attitude and got the job done with excellence. This is always a core part of our ministry culture as well as keeping everything free for both participants and volunteers. 

I hope you enjoy the collage above and if you’d like to see more pictures you can go to our website at www.access-life.org/etnexpo to see the joy of the Lord on many faces. :-)

Also, if you check out our previous post about the East Tennessee Expo in 2 minutes you can see a great video that our East Tennessee Ministry lead, Hannah Spradling put together!

Well, our second year of doing Leanne Life Legacy baskets for Easter was yet another greatly God bless success. Not only were we able to reach new individuals and families living with disabilities in need with the love and gospel of Jesus which included the true meaning of Easter but we were able to do it in not only Central Florida but East Tennessee, too. :-) 

Thanks to Amanda Rathbun five individuals and families living with disabilities received a special Easter basket that contains not only a Bible, ministry art book with scripture, $100 food card, Leanne Life legacy t-shirt and the personalized Easter card but also various special faith-based Easter items geared especially for kids. 

In Central Florida, I was specifically privileged to get to spend some time with a fellow spinal cord injury patient, Rhonda Reese who I have known for many years. The Royal Ambassador also got involved as we were able to deliver a basket to a lady who lives in his community this year. 

All in all, it was great to see God pour out His Easter blessing on 10 recipients this year and two states. Hopefully, as God leads this program will expand to more areas with our next distribution on Thanksgiving. :-)

God blessed us with another wonderful Access-Life East Tennessee Spring Fling this past Saturday March 28th at Faith Community Church in Talbot, Tennessee. The participants were plentiful but the workers were few. However, as always God made a way for his blessings to flow on all the individuals and families living with disabilities as well as the volunteers who were there. Hope you enjoy some of the pictures below and please be praying for God to send more volunteers our way for future activities!

Hey there boys and girls of all ages and abilities! We have been busy here at Access-Life so I apologize for not posting more updates recently. However, we finally made it to Belize for our annual mission trip and outreach at Hearts of Christ this past March 18 through the 23 and back home safely.

It was quite the ordeal with logistics this year shipping containers from Florida and Texas as well as rescheduling our dates from February to March. However, as always God was not only faithful but made a way for us to share his love and gospel with individuals and families living with disabilities in Belize through the distribution of mobility items and medical supplies.

In fact, we were able to serve and minister to nearly 80 families who came to the mission with mobility items, medical supplies, food packets, hygiene kits, Bibles, faith-based kid items and gospel bracelets plus candy.  

We were also able to go into one of the local villages and distribute more food packets, hygiene kits, Bibles, faith-based kid items and gospel bracelets to another 20 plus families in need. Oh, we were even able to donate a large supply of medical items to the local nonprofit hospital.

We are all still recovering from the trip and I am still gathering up photos and videos but you can go to the Belize page on our website [Belize Missions – Access-Life] to see glimpses of some of the smiles and good things that God did while we were there! Hope you enjoy the photo collage above, too. :)