BIBLES TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
June 1 truly launched our summer distribution of Team Hally Bibles as we took 800 Bibles to Heartland traveling day camps to be given out at over 50 churches in Kansas and Missouri. The staff was so excited to be sharing the Gospel throughout the summer with the children who would be attending their camps.
In addition, over the next six weeks, we also partnered with many churches in the Kansas City area to provide another 800 Bibles to local VBS programs, backyard Bible Clubs, and camps. One local church member said that they had always wanted to provide Bibles for each of their children attending VBS but did not have the funds and that these Bibles are truly a gift from God!
BIBLES AROUND THE NATION
In addition to opening doors locally, God has also provided several opportunities in other states. Pennington Park Church in Indiana has a Backyard Bible Club and it was so exciting to see them ask for 150 Bibles in May and then a month later need another 150! God truly does exceedingly, abundantly more than we can ask or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). Then further south God opened up the door in Alabama. Several Bibles were given to McDonald’s employees who had recently heard the Gospel and were beginning a 31-day Bible reading plan to explore their faith. Team Hally loves that God is an individual God who cares about a personal relationship with EACH person! Whether Team Hally gives 1000 Bibles at a big camp or a grandma sends one Bible to her grandchild in another state, God is using it.
BIBLES TO GUATEMALA
At the end of July, a group from Worden Church near Baldwin, Kansas will be headed to Guatemala for a mission trip and 6 Spanish Bibles are headed there also! We would love for you to pray over the individuals who will receive these Bibles and consider if your church has any upcoming mission trips that Team Hally could provide Bibles.
FCA ELITE BASKETBALL CAMP
On Tuesday, July 26 God is truly providing an opportunity to bring together all the things that encompass Team Hally! Bibles, Basketball, and Believers! The past few months Team Hally
has been given the amazing blessing to partner with Fellowship of Christian Athletes Olathe to give Bibles at several FCA events including this upcoming elite Basketball Camp. This camp will also include Ayoka Lee and other staff/players from K-State as well as Team Hally family and friends. Truly Hally’s love for Jesus and basketball is brought together in this event. As Psalm 139:13-14 says, we are fearfully and wonderfully made and God truly gives each of us a passion and skills which are meant to be used for God’s glory. Team Hally is providing 100 Bibles this day! Please pray that the Gospel will clearly be given and that many of the young children attending the camp will receive Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior and then be obedient to make disciples of themselves (Matthew 28:19-20).
K-STATE PRAYER PARTNERS
Team Hally is super excited to be partnering once again for the 2022-2023 with the K-State Women’s Basketball Team! Our partnership with K-State began 8 years ago when Hally went to heaven simultaneously as K-State hired a new basketball coach, Jeff Mittie. Neither Coach Mittie nor the Yust family would have ever imagined what God had in store for our two organizations! The partnership started out because the Yust family wanted to honor Hally in two ways: giving Bibles and supporting Hally’s passion for basketball through a scholarship to the K-State Women’s Basketball program. This relationship has developed into a “family.” Team Hally support the team by attending a women’s basketball game, sending the team and staff cards of encouragement throughout the season, and prayer partners for each player and staff. The K-State team in turn attends our Dirty Dash, helps run muddy shoes back and forth for the runners, and some of the staff actually run the race! God has continued to grow this partnership in such an encouraging and meaningful way beyond our biggest dreams.
We are putting together the prayer partners for each of the players and staff by August 1! If you would like to be a part of this impactful ministry please message us by July 28.
DIRTY DASH
Dirty Dash is a 2.5 mile obstacle challenge course benefitting Team Hally. Bring out your friends and family and get ready to run, walk, crawl, wade, slip, and slide as Dirty Dash gets you absolutely filthy. Each year we dream up and build creative obstacles, so there’s always a chance you’ll see something brand new. From start to finish this is an event you don’t want to miss! Register your family or make a donation by visiting our official Dirty Dash page.
PRAYER REQUESTS
Team Hally would love to have you partner with us in prayer for the following:
- FCA Elite Basketball Camp-campers to hear the Gospel and begin reading their new Hally Bibles
- 2022 Dirty Dash-Gospel to be clearly shared and provision for Bibles
- K-State partnership-open doors to encourage the team spiritually!
- Open doors to give Bibles
- Protection for Team Hally as the Gospel goes forth around the world
Dirty Dash is Sunday, September 11th
Dirty Dash is a 2.5 mile obstacle challenge course benefitting Team Hally. Bring out your friends and family and get ready to run, walk, crawl, wade, slip, and slide as Dirty Dash gets you absolutely filthy. From start to finish this is an event you don’t want to miss! Visit our Dirty Dash page for all the details.
The Bible Project
Our mission is to provide Bibles to anyone who wants to read God’s word, including individuals, Sunday Schools, Vacation Bible Schools, local charities, schools, neighbors, prisoners, hospitals, groups overseas and many others.
We’ve donated 2,903 Bibles so far in 2022!
If your church has a summer Bible program, let us know and we can provide Bibles to these precious children.
Book of John 21-Week Challenge
Team Hally is excited to announce our Book of John 21 Week Challenge! Join us as we read one chapter of John each week for the next 21 weeks. This 21-week plan goes chapter-by-chapter through John’s gospel and is perfect for both new and seasoned believers to take a deeper look into the Great Story that’s All About Jesus. Will you take the challenge?
In 2018, the Yust family was invited to attend a fundraising event for Global Orphan Project. This ministry exists to break the orphan cycle through the power of community, commerce and the love of Jesus. Global Orphan Project provides sustainable, local, family-style care that is deeply rooted in compassion, hope and the belief that every child deserves a chance. Following this event, a journey began to get French Bibles to Haiti.
We had no idea at the time this would end up being a long, difficult, and sometimes frustrating process. Sadly, Haiti has experienced ongoing violence, political turmoil, and corruption for many years. This has made the delivery of food, supplies, and assistance from outside of the country very difficult. Several months after Team Hally met with Global Orphan Project, Shon and Jenny were on a business trip brainstorming how to get Bibles to Haiti. A friend who was also on this trip suggested a ministry in South Carolina that sends medical supplies to Haiti and perhaps they would be willing to take the Bibles. We were filled with hope that this would be an easy process! Our contact Nancy Smith was so great to work with and even asked if we could send some Bibles for their church.
Then, who would have known that a global pandemic would stop the world? After months of waiting, we realized this effort had become nearly impossible. As soon as we thought we had run out of all options, Nancy found a ministry that flies supplies in to remote areas of Haiti. The Bibles had to wait for several flights because they needed to get the medical supplies there first, but finally at the end of 2021 the Bibles made it to the Village of David!
This journey is still unfolding and we’ll keep you updated as we continue learn more about the impact these Bibles are making in Haiti.
Team Hally is so excited for the summer of 2021!God opened many new camps and opportunities last summer even when our “normal” Vacation Bible School (VBS) programs didn’t happen. We would love to continue to give bibles to any VBS program that plans to meet this summer, as well as camps, mission trips, neighborhoods, and to individuals.
Please contact us at TeamHally2015@gmail.com or on our Team Hally Facebook page to let us know about your summer plans/needs for bibles. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8
Hello Jenny and Yust Family,
We remain so grateful for your family’s kind generosity.
Families are very appreciative when they ask for a Bible and their eyes light up when they are told it is theirs to keep. Earlier this week, a Spanish-speaking father asked me if we had any books in Spanish and when I showed him the books in the library, his choice was a Spanish Bible. I can’t fully describe the look on his face as he sat down on the couch – it was like he was relieved to see an old friend who would offer him great comfort.
Today one of the chaplains came to the chapel to get a Bible to give as a gift to a family who was being discharged after a long stay. I enjoy reflecting how Hally and your family’s gestures of love continue to cascade on many.
Many blessings to you all in this season of autumn!
Take care,
Lisa Blevins – Children’s Mercy Hospital (pictured above – far right, along with Parker and Jenny Yust)
God’s Word continues to be spread through the Team Hally ministry as we were down to only four boxes of Bibles in May. We are so thankful for each of you who faithfully gives funds so we can purchase more Bibles.
The day we placed stickers in the 1000 new Bibles we ordered, we had an amazing turn out. Psalms 13:6 says, “I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.”
As I was watching the stickers being placed in the Bibles, it overwhelmed me how bountifully my God deals with me. He uses a broken and disorganized mama to send forth His Word to share the hope and love He has for each of us. We have distributed more than 900 Bibles in the past month, and we already need more Spanish Bibles.
We are so excited to see what God will do with our ministry the rest of the summer!