LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear Family and Friends:

The TOUCH board and myself want to thank each one of you for your support to TOUCH Ministries. We are grateful and appreciative to God for all of our donors, volunteers, and prayer partners. We pray for you and ask that you pray for us and for TOUCH Ministries.

Touch is strong in their forth year of serving the homeless in the Inland Empire.
TOUCH has now distributed over 3,800 backpacks to homeless around the Inland Empire. Without your generous donations to fill the backpacks and help with ministry costs, we wouldn't have this great opportunity to help the poor.

Proverbs 19:17 - If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord and He will repay you.

I feel honored that God used me to be the vessel to begin TOUCH but, the truth is if it weren't for you the donors, volunteers, and prayer partners, there wouldn't be this opportunity to bless the poor in the Inland Empire. I thank God for you and your compassionate hearts to help the homeless in our community. Through TOUCH we can offer so much but most importantly because of you, TOUCH is able to offer hope to the homeless.

We at TOUCH are grateful that God is using us to serve His people and the community in this loving way.

Thank you again for your participation with TOUCH Ministries. Please call me anytime if you would like to help this ministry or know someone that could use our services.

Together we're reaching homeless for Jesus

May God richly bless you and your loved ones,

Connie Perlick
Founder/ President
TOUCH Ministries
(909) 921-3748

THIRD ANNUAL T.O.U.C.H. YARD SALE

Our 3^rd Annual Yard Sale is being planned for an upcoming date in June and we will be accepting your donations of items for this event in mid May. Actual dates still being determined. Time to clean those closets and garages. Please watch your e-mail and future newsletters for more details.

T.O.U.C.H. IS MOVING

Our tenancy at the G.A.P. will end as of April 1^st 2008 – Yes, it is April Fools Day but we are really moving, as the G.A.P. needs the space that we have been renting at their location. We have been contacted by the City of Rancho Cucamonga with an offer to apply for space in a building that has been empty for a while now. It used to be the Senior Recreation Center on Arrow Route but is being reestablished as a community outreach with a variety of different ministries and programs to serve the pubic and their needs. We are praying that we are granted the privilege to take advantage of this opportunity but at this point it is only a possibility for us and wouldn’t be ready until an unknown date in May 2008. Since our tenancy at the G.A.P. ends on April 1^st we are facing an interim move and a brief halt to packing backpacks until we can relocate. It is our intention at the moment to move our office furniture and supplies into a public storage for approximately a month. The T.O.U.C.H Computer will be temporarily moved to the home of Connie Perlick so that we can keep the e-mail up and running and conduct business in a limited way until we have a place to move into.

Our plans are to move from our office to public storage on Saturday, March 15^th.

We will need volunteers to help us make our interim move on March 15^th and are looking for volunteers with trucks and a few hours to serve in helping us get everything into the storage.

We are praying of course that we can save our funds for serving the homeless and needy and won’t have to move into the public storage facility. We are desperately seeking out someone that may have approximately 250 square feet of space to temporarily store our furniture and supplies until we can relocate. If this is you or if you know of someone who may be able to help in this way it would be an answer to prayer.

Our prayers are also in finding a building or space with a minimum of 500 square feet for our new permanent location. It would be a miracle to find such a place before March 15^th so that we would only have to move once and not have any down time in the ministry. Finding something permanent at anytime though– whether before or after we vacate our current location would be an answer to prayer. We don’t know what God has planned here and are watching and waiting to see how He will provide. What we do know is that He will provide in His special time, which is seldom early but never late. He will touch the heart of a special person or persons empowering and enabling as only He can. We believe that it is in His will to care for the homeless and needy and that as we pray things are going to happen that will knock our socks off. Please pray with us that His will be done and share in watching for the miracles that will follow.

Please call the T.O.U.C.H. cell phone number (909) 921-3748 or e-mail touch14god@yahoo.com A.S.A.P. if you or someone you know would be able to assist in any of these areas.

Written by: ConnieLee Parra / T.O.U.C.H. Vice President

THANK YOU

Our list of volunteers and supporters is long and our appreciation for each one of you is great – without the support we receive from all of you including your partnership with us in time and heartfelt prayers this ministry would not be able to survive. The Lord has anointed T.O.U.C.H. in awesome ways. In addition to the hundreds of backpacks that have been distributed to the homeless and needy T.O.U.C.H. has been successful in bringing intense awareness to the crisis of homelessness and engaged countless groups of men, women and children in hands on projects that have aided the impoverished amongst us.

The Lord has used us to involve children in schools in affluent areas to show compassion and give to children in schools where the lack of clothes and hunger are part of their every day life. Those who have helping those who have not! Isn’t that what it is all about? It is such a blessing to be able to be used in this way.

God continues to manifest himself in unbelievable ways in this ministry. We found out about a Head Start school in a poor area of Ontario that desired to serve a Thanksgiving dinner to their students and their families who may not have had one any other way and the Lord heard our prayers. As we called out to Him for the food, like manna from heaven in the same day we received a call from someone that knew nothing of the need in Ontario advising us that there were 50 turkeys we could have if we needed them. ConnieSue and ConnieLee picked them up and delivered them to the school and they had their Thanksgiving dinner. That’s God!!

Tents in 'Camp Hope' (tent city) were needed after a wild windstorm recently and after praying and putting out the request for help by e-mail the dollars came flooding in. T.O.U.C.H. was able to give $1,330.00 to Jane Mercer of ‘New Hope’ who is overseeing to the needs to aid them in purchasing new tents for those in need. That was God!! There are countless stories like these.

We’d need something as large as a telephone book to list all the many people and local business who have been vessels for the Lord and so instrumental in serving in this ministry and we’d still probably miss someone. So, as much as we’d like to put all the names down here we just wouldn’t be able to. You are appreciated, you have been used by the Lord and you know who you are but more importantly God knows who you are and your reward is in heaven. God bless all of you for your continued support and your giving hearts. Please call or e-mail us anytime to find out how you can serve and please keep praying with us that God will touch even more people in 2008 through T.O.U.C.H.

Blessings In Abundance From all of us on the TOUCH Board.

(Written by: Connie Parra)