Kids Start School with a BACKPACK, HUG and SMILES from SBM

YOU have been part of one of the greatest good news stories in Delaware for the last eleven years. This August you can once again give a gigantic HUG to hundreds and hundreds of children at the Annual Back-to-School Rally for Sunday Breakfast Mission. The third Saturday of August, Au-gust 16th, over 2000 children and parents from all of this re-gion will come to the Sunday Breakfast Mission to start their school year off with a big hug. Volunteers will have already sorted all the pens, pencils, erasers, crayons, paper, etc. and packed the BACKPACKS so that every child can have what they need. More volunteers will be there to make sure every child has just the right color backpack, because we all know it’s important to a child’s self-image to not be embarrassed. Other volunteers will hand out water to keep everyone cool and hydrated. Even more volunteers will spend time praying with parents and children for the children to have a terrific year of learning and growing at schools free of drugs, guns,

gangs, and even tobacco.The day will also include a

special return by musical art-ist Caitlin Jane and her band. Then Rev. Tom Laymon will do what he has done for over 18 years at Missions here and in Michigan: share Jesus’ love for all the children, telling them that they have an ally

for all the problems that confront them in their lives. Other staff and volunteers will give away New Testaments so kids have God’s Word with them at school.

This year, a special opportunity returns to the Back-to-School Rally. To promote healthy SMILES dental professionals will provide a basic screening for all children who come.

You can help us make this happen and serve more kids than ever!

• COLLECT school supplies for BTS 2014.• CREATE a “School Supply Drive” at your work, college,

church, or community group (contact Nancy Wheeler at 302-755-306-HOME, ext. 172 for information).

• GIVE a special “above and beyond” gift to help more than ever.

• PRAY for all the children who are going to come to SBM Back-to-School 2014.

Listen to Rev. Laymon on Sunday 9:15 a.m.WDEL 1150 AM or online at

www.sundaybreakfastmission.org/broadcasts.php

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Your Prayerful Support Will Help Others

• Backpacks-children and teen• Pocket folders

• Scissors, blunt and sharp• Wide and college-ruled

notebook paper• Wide-ruled spiral notebooks

• College-ruled spiral note-books

• 3-ring binders• Erasers

• Pens and pencils• Crayons (24 pack)

• Pencil cases• Sharpeners

• Glue sticks & Washable glue• Washable markers or

colored pencils• Tissues• Rulers

Items Needed to Fill Over 1200 Backpacks:

Summer is fastly coming upon us, and after this cold and blustery winter, we are all welcoming it with arms wide open. But we here at the Sunday Break-fast Mission are all too aware that, with summer, comes dangers for those men, women, boys and girls we serve. In fact, this summer is coming with the prom-ise that we are going to see more needy folks coming in to find a cool place, hot food, soft beds, and clean, cool clothing to cover scorched skin.

You see, in the last few weeks and months, Sunday Breakfast Mission has seen more homeless than ever. Just a few years ago, only 50 men entered our doors at night, but in recent days we have seen 100, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160 even 170 men, women, boys and girls coming through our doors to be safe in our beds for the night, still full from our hearty meals. These numbers exceed the 110-120 men, women and children who reside with us in our Res-idential Programs. There is a CRISIS ON THE STREETS and with YOUR help we are meeting it head on.

When the temperatures rise, new dangers for these many homeless arise. The streets can become more violent to homeless, so we need to be there

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Crisis on the Streets

YOUR generosity can make a big difference in the life of a child!

A few years ago, Sunday Breakfast Mission opened up a “new door” and many hurting and hungry families began to walk in to receive food they could take home and prepare for them-selves. This was especially important to the many children these families represented because, as you know, children who are able to eat home-cooked meals together with their mommy and daddy do so much better in all their life activities. But along with the food was a special gift of being able to hear the Good News and pray with a Bible counselor if they wanted. Many mothers and some fathers found new hope in Christ because they came for food.

A few years ago the number of families coming into SBM had reached over 60 per week. While that may not seem like many in the scheme of things it actually meant serving a lot of people. Then about nine months ago SBM saw the numbers drop so that barely a dozen folks per month were coming. We decided that our staffing efforts needed to be applied elsewhere and encouraged folks to come to our evening community meal.

Well, in the meantime, a volunteer at our Great Thanksgiving Food Outreach had gotten so excited about our interview pro-cess and “Sharing your Faith without Argument” that she began to teach others at her church (Pike Creek Bible Church). Then she asked if we had any way for them to be of service to SBM.

At the same time, Sunday Breakfast Mission began receiving more inquiries as to whether we could provide some families with food boxes again.

The Lord brought all these things together when a group of volunteers started on May 10th helping 30 families get the food they need, both physically and spiritually. YOU can help:

1. Become a volunteer in this new program yourself. We need more helpers.

2. Do a food drive to fill each box which is more than 50 pounds of food to feed a family for a week. Go to www.sun-daybreakfastmission.org to complete an online volunteer application or call Nancy Wheeler (877-306-HOME (4663), extension 172) to organize a food drive.

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XL Global Insurance of Wilmington brought 14 employees on May 9th to plant flowers that they donated. They served lunch, made over thirty large food boxes for Community Outreach and did just about anything else that we asked. THANK YOU XL Global for your hard work and dedication to SBM.

Volunteers Drive Food Box

Ministry’s Return

June 15th Men/Women’s Discipleship Program Graduation

August 16th Back to School Event

November 20th Evangelism Training24th Food Box Distribution25th Food Box Distribution27th Thanksgiving Banquet

December 18th Christmas Shop Open by Appointment19th Christmas Shop Open by Appointment

SBM 2014 Calendar

Sorting – Packing – Distributing Food Boxes to needy families twice a month with the help of SBM’s faith-ful volunteers.

Early this past April the one woman play “Clean Sheets” was performed by Miho Kahn for the residents of the mission. It is a pow-erful conversion story of a young woman who hitch-hiked across the Mohave Desert only to be captured and raped by an infamous criminal.

Miho finally escaped and shares her experience, strength and hope in this engaging production. It is a story of renewal and the power of Christ’s love that can come to all of us even in our darkest hours. Dave Wiedis, Miho’s husband and accompanist (piano) explained, “When the show began the resi-dents didn’t know what to expect. They kind of sat there with their

arms crossed. But by the end of the 50 minute production they were on their feet and fully embraced the story and Miho.”

At the mission, we value the pow-er of a testimony and the bridge it can build to a stronger relation-ship with Christ. “I had met Dave at a conference, heard about this production and knew it was some-thing I wanted to share with our people,” stated Rev. Tom Laymon. He continued, “I know that we will have them back in the future. It gives our guests so much encour-agement to see how God delivers people from the depths of despair and the fact that as long as there is life there is hope.”

Sunday Breakfast Mission en-courages each of its supporters to reflect on their lives and share their personal story of Christ’s love. “I know that most of our support-ers are motivated to give based on their faith in Jesus. The thing that I have found is that money, prayers volunteer support and the power of a life story can combine in an extraordinary way to set the stage for the recovery and restoration of our guests.” states Laymon.

Dave Wiedis adds, “Being at Sunday Breakfast Mission was an amazing experience for both Miho and me. It is exciting to see God’s power at work and the healing pro-cess underway for so many that at

one time had lost all hope.”To learn more about “Clean

Sheets” you can visit www.Miho-cleansheets.org.

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Bangalore City Mission, India works to serve people irre-spective of their caste, creed, or religious background and constantly loves and serves people through the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. SBM was privileged to have Jona-than Sinclair Paul, President/Executive Director of Banga-lore City Mission visit at SBM for a weekend in early May. During his visit both the women and men residents along with overnighters were privileged to hear Jonathan speak in chapel regarding the ministry at Bangalore City Mission.

Clean Sheets Comes to the Mission

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SBM’s family appreciated the gift bags made and donated by Bible Fellowship Church for Mother’s Day. Here a few ladies show off their handmade bags while relaxing in the Family Center library.

Volunteer, Robert Watson, Kevin Watson and Kevin Meixell of Brandywine Valley Baptist Church worked diligently to com-plete the overnighters bathroom renova-tion project. Thank you guys!

Overnighters’ Dorm Bathroom Renovation ProjectBefore

After

On May 11th DE Marathon contributed to Mission’s food pantry. Many Thanks!

Mike Elkins, Wayman Fire Protection Service Operations Mgr. presents a check for food to Rev. Nancy Wheeler.

You can support Sunday Break-fast Mission every time you shop on Amazon.com. Enter smile.amazon.com/ch/51-0073080 into your favorite browser and click the start shopping link. Every time you shop on Amazon 0.5% of the price your eligible purchases will be donated to our cause.

Lives at SBM are changing daily because of YOU, our churches, schools, and community groups. Many pas-tors and community leaders are partnering with SBM. One pastor is quoted as saying “I had no idea of all the things happening at SBM”; another said “Please sign me up for a tour”. You can call to schedule a tour of SBM today.

You may ask, “What’s happening at SBM?” Well let me share.

The Women and Family shelter has two new church-es, Bethel Baptist and Calvary Assembly of God, both in Wilmington, coming in to facilitate evening chapel services.

The Hope Tote drive was a great success distribut-ing over 6000 bags, more than 3000 filled bags have re-turned, and they are still coming in.

Easter Sunday was a tremendous success with more than 450 individuals receiving Hope Totes filled with personal items. If you have Hope Totes we are still col-lecting them. You can drop them off at any time or just give us a call for pick up.

In the last three months at least 20 churches and schools have been part of our volunteer program. That means that more than 450 individuals have walked through SBM doors to make a difference.

The halls at SBM are full of excitement with young students learning the meaning of volunteerism and “giving back”. Opportunities are endless: cleaning the halls; wiping mats and raking the yard; sorting canned food, checking expiration dates on baby food, and pack-ing the hundreds of Hope Totes items that have been generously donated by YOU.

Our financial support has been increasing and our budget is larger than ever. With an ever increasing need, we welcome donations.

As you can see, there are many exciting things going on in the Church and Community Relations Depart-ment. You may be asking “How Can We Get Involved?” Just give Nancy Wheeler a call at 302-877-306-HOME ext. 172 and she will get you connected. For more in-formation contact us today and be sure to sign up for our “Coffee Talk and Tour.”

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YOU Can Make a Difference

Over 6000 Hope Tote bags were distrib-uted and more than 3000 filled bags have been returned with more coming in daily. Distribution to the community began on Easter Sunday.

Mom’s and children residents at SBM enjoyed an Easter breakfast, services and the high-light for the kids, an Easter egg hunt!

SBM resident moms and kids enjoy a roller skating outing.

…lots of laughter and fun during a bowing outing.

SBM resident children enjoy fun in the sun while playing on the playground dedicated to former staff member Jill Goldner who passed away from cancer in 2011.

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By Joanne Butler

Recently, a retired DuPont chemist, Tom Bair, passed away. As a modest man who loved his family, friends and sports, his death would be unremark-able except for this: Countless police officers and soldiers owe their lives to Dr. Bair because he was instrumental in inventing Kevlar. Kevlar is the fiber in bullet-resistant vests that police and military personnel wear to prevent be-ing killed or wounded by gunshots.

According to the 1992 book “Inven-tive Minds: Creativity in Technology” (edited by Robert John Weber and David N. Perkins, Oxford University Press), DuPont chemists in the late 1960s and early 1970s had been work-ing on developing a fiber that was very strong. But they were having problems transforming certain polymers that had characteristics of high strength and density into a fiber that could be spun (and thus made into a fabric).

Enter Dr. Bair.Tom Bair was born in 1938 in north-

eastern Pennsylvania’s coal country. He earned his B.S. in chemistry at Penn State in 1960 and a Ph.D. in or-

ganic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in 1966. Before he attained his Ph.D., he had already been hired by DuPont to work in its fiber research section.

As I’m an economist, not a chemist, the best I can do to describe Bair’s sci-entific contribution is to say that he dis-covered, through experimentation, how a certain high-strength/density polymer could be chemically treated (without loss of the polymer’s properties) so it could be transformed into a “spinable” fiber. There were other researchers trying to solve the “spinability” problem (using similar polymers), but Bair was the first to cross the finish line.

Bair’s enhanced polymer was cho-sen by DuPont for further develop-ment, and the end result was Kevlar.

According to a 2009 report by Re-search Forum, the initial Kevlar protec-tion garments were issued in 1975 as a one-year demonstration project. The first recorded incident of a life saved by the vest occurred almost immediate-ly thereafter, when a Seattle police offi-cer was shot in the chest and survived. There were 18 subsequent incidents during that one-year project, in which the vests successfully protected police officers.

Police deaths due to firearms have decreased significantly since the 1980s and 1990s, when FBI statistics indicat-ed there were an average of 64 deaths per year by firearms (640 deaths during the period 1987-1996). Of those 640 deaths, 224 involved officers wearing body armor, however, most of those deaths involved areas not covered by body armor: above (head, neck), below and between (e.g., shoulder holes) the armor pads.

In 1996 (the year of the oldest avail-able online FBI report on the matter was writtern), 51 officers were feloni-ously killed by firearms, a significant decrease from 1995 when 62 officers were killed. Of the 51 victims, many died due to wounds in the areas de-scribed above. However, only one death was attributable to a bullet pene-trating the body armor.

In the most recent FBI data available (2012), 44 officers were feloniously killed with firearms; 23 were wearing body armor at the time. Again, their deaths were mostly due to non-cover-age area wounds. However, no deaths were due to a bullet penetrating the armor.

In fairness, some years have seen fatalities due to armor penetration — when the ammo used was more power-ful than the armor’s capabilities (e.g., in 2010, when four such deaths oc-curred). In response, the technological work Dr. Bair pioneered is being con-stantly improved to increase a police officer’s odds when faced with a skilled, armed assailant.

Likewise, more law enforcement

agencies are requiring their officers to wear body armor. In addition, there have been many news stories in which officers attested to how wearing a vest made the difference between life and death. Just two weeks ago, a Los Ange-les police officer was shot seven times, mostly in the chest; his bulletproof vest is credited with saving his life

In spite of all the statistics and testi-monials, as far as I know nothing phys-ical exists to mark Dr. Bair’s achieve-ment. Unlike certain Washington politicians whose names are honored in countless federal buildings (the late Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia comes to mind), it seems Dr. Bair had no desire to immortalize himself in that way. Nor, despite his accomplish-ments, did he seek fame, as opposed to some people today who are famous for merely being publicly outrageous.

Rather, Dr. Bair’s “monument” is a living one, as evidenced by all those who survived after being in the line of fire because of their body armor. It’s reflected every time a husband, wife, father, mother, son or daughter comes home and says to their loved ones, ‘It’s OK, and I’m OK, I was wearing my vest.’”

In my opinion, that beats having a brass plaque, hands down. Or, as the nuns used to say, he’ll earn his crown in heaven. I hope he has.

As an indication of his humility, one of his last wishes was for any memorial gifts be directed to the Sunday Break-fast Mission.

If you or a loved one feel a debt to Dr. Bair, you couldn’t do better than that.

A version of this article first ap-peared in the International Business Times.

Reprinted with permission from Town Square DE

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Friend of Mission/Creator of Kevlar

Single layer of Kevlar’s crystal structure

Joanne Butler is a senior economics fellow at the Caesar Rodney Institute of Delaware. You can email her at joanne-butler@comcast.net.

Thank you Young Correctional Institute for donating 103 mattresses covers to the Women’s Facility!

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Tall Oaks School spent a full day volunteering at SBM. They sorted Hope Tote items and filled Hope Tote bags in the warehouse, scrubbed walls and mattresses. Thank you Tall Oaks again for all the hard work and a great day of service!

Because YOU Gave $5,503,853

Gift In Kind $2,291,738Micellaneous $1,733Thrift Store Sales $90,748Restricted $6,831Individuals $1,906,937

Churches $46,149Corporations $205,106Foundations $117,181Legacy and Bequests $489,963

Income by Category

Individuals may browse in the SBM Thrift Store on Wednesdays from 1-3 pm and Saturdays from 9am to noon. Many donations of house wares, furniture and clothing are used throughout the Mission for residents and community. Others are sold in the store at a minimum expense to those who would otherwise do without basic needs.

Income by Category

Administration 7%

Program 81%Fundraising 12%

Expenses by Category

Corporations 4%

Legacy and Bequests 10%Foundations 2%

Churches 1%

Gift In Kind 44%

Thrift Store Sales 2%

Individuals 37%

Restricted 0%

Micellaneous 0%

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Driving down a country road, a man notices a farmer standing in a field staring blankly. The man gets out of his car and says, “Excuse me, but what are you doing?” The farmer replies, “I’m trying to win a Nobel Prize… I heard they give ‘em out to people who are out standing in their field.” We know it takes much more than this to win a Nobel Prize! You must make a lasting difference. The same is true about leaving a legacy for those you love. What kind of legacy will you leave behind for your children and grandchildren? And how can you be sure it’s a “noble” one? Leaving love letters for your family and giving to God’s work through ministries like Sunday Breakfast Mission in your Will are wonderful ways to demonstrate what is most important to you – and create a legacy that changes lives for generations to come. Psalms 78:4 encourages us to share “…God’s fame, fortune and the marvelous things He has done.” A legacy gift can do just that.

For the full version of this article, ask for a FREE copy of “How to Earn a ‘Noble’ Prize” by simply checking the box on the enclosed reply card or by contacting Rev. Tom Laymon from Sunday Break-fast Mission at (302) 656-8542, ext. 103 or tlaymon@sundaybreak-fastmission.org - or bless your family today with a God-honoring Will at www.christianwill.org/sbm

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CRISIS — CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1for them. The heat can hurt them too, so we need to help them have water to take with them as they go out during the days. They can get very warm and suffer physically so on the hottest days, we need to be available to them as a place to cool off. YOU too need to be on the lookout for them to report to po-lice or emergency services if a homeless man or woman or even child is down and suffer-ing. The police will bring them in to us.

John was homeless in Wilmington, living on the streets for just 2 ½ months. Alcohol had driven him out of jobs. This was his second time of homelessness during the heat. Dehydration was a constant issue and hygiene was tough until he came to the Mission where he not only found food, water, and shelter but a shower every night. Then one other thing convinced him to stay off the street and off the alcohol—he found Christ.

Daryl had been on the streets of Salisbury for months during the hottest time of the year. Besides the dehydration, roaming gangs of youth attacking homeless began to scare him. One of his buddies landed in the hospital nearly beaten to death by a gang with baseball bats. Daryl tried to get off the street on his own, but didn’t make it until he gave his heart to God at Sunday Breakfast Mission.

• YOU are helping us keep hundreds of people safe and out of crisis in the streets when you give to SBM.

• YOU are helping hundreds hear the Good News daily to help them get off the street permanently when you give to SBM.

• YOU are helping SBM when you collect food, give a meal, provide counsel-ing and care for the hundreds who come daily.