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Wings For LIFE International 2270 D Wyoming Blvd NE #130

Albuquerque, NM 87112 Wings Flyer #57 Spreading our Wings

Some of the volunteers Spoon Hanging fun Spoon Hanging Champs!

Wings Celebrates 24th Annual Banquet

5-10-19 St. John’s United Methodist Church

Albuquerque, NM

280+ guests—50+ volunteers

Wings Board of Directors

Emcees James & Gary. Speakers: Jacob Gallegos, Beverly Hughes, Carolyn Good, Crystall Gonzales & son Isaiah.

Volunteers of the Year: Phil Gilbert & past Volunteers of the Year, Wings Founder Ann Edenfield Sweet, Mary Briggs, Board member James Zanios, Phil Gilbert, Karen Bramlitt & Paul Collins.

Silent Auction

50/50 Raffle

Inmate Praise Band

Family Days: Music, Story, Crafts, Pizza

Wings Family Days—Santa Fe Penitentiary, Easter in ABQ & Liberia

On April 13, 2019, the 1st Wings Easter Party was held in Liberia, Africa. About 10 hours later, the 24th Wings Easter Family Day was held in Albuquer-que. The same Bible story, sharing all of Holy Week was done in Africa and the U.S. What an amazing God we serve!

Netherwood Park Church—Easter, ABQ

4-13-19

Eating together

Prodigal Son

Liberia, Africa

4-13-19

Upcoming Wings Family Days (Scheduled to Date)

June 1 Guadalupe County Correctional Facility—Santa Rosa, NM

June 22 Lorain Correctional Institution—Grafton, OH

July 13 Springer Women’s Correctional—Springer, NM

July 20 Roswell Correctional Facility—Roswell, NM

Aug. 3 24th Back-To-School Party—Shepherd of the Valley Presbyterian

Aug. 17 NENM Correctional Facility—Clayton, NM

Sept. 28 Southern Correctional Facility—Las Cruces, NM

Oct. 26 NWNM Correctional Facility—Grants, NM

Dec. 7 Southeastern Correctional Center—Lancaster, OH

Dec. 8 Noble Correctional Institution—Caldwell, OH

Dec. 14 Need a location—25th Christmas Party—ABQ

Volunteers Needed & Wanted!

THANKS to all our Donors & Cookie Bakers!

Earth Day—Keep Albuquerque Beautiful

Mondays are busy at WFL!

Art Classes with famous NM Artist Sally Rutledge

Karate with 8th level black belt Phil Gilbert

Pre-K After-dinner program

Learning to Knit with Ann Brook

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Wings For LIFE Int’l

Reunites Families

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2nd Quarter 2019

A child of a prisoner is faced with a daunting future.

Children of prisoners have a 72% chance of ending up in prison themselves!*

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Friday, Sept. 13, 2019

Hotel Albuquerque

5:30—7:30 After Party at Casa Esencia

$100/Guest

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Live & Silent Auction

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Celebration of Champions

5th Year in a Row—Wings For LIFE International

TOP-RATED NONPROFIT

Since GREATNONPROFITS has been giving out awards, Wings For LIFE International has been honored each year with one of the first Top-Rated Awards in the country from GreatNonprofits! We are proud to announce that again we have been acknowledged as one of the first non-profits in 2019 to be given this award. We appreciate all of your contributions! You can read inspiring stories about us and add your own too at: https://greatnonprofits.org/org/wings-for-life-international

Homework Diner Grows Wings Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Dept.

at Pajarito Elementary School

6 schools—GREAT FUN—Students, parents & teachers

Wings is Going to Liberia – January 2020!

Africa Wings For LIFE International is planning a mission trip to Liberia, Africa in January 2020. We will host prison and community Family Days and trainings in prisons, orphanages, churches, and slums. We will fly into Monrovia and our full itinerary will be posted as soon as it is completed. Raymond Bombo is the Wings For LIFE International – Liberia Executive Director. He has already hosted a Christmas and an Easter Community Family Day. In September he plans to start our educational program, Wings For L.I.F.E. – Life-skills Imparted to Families through Education. We will go and do in-person training not only for him, but his Board of Directors, other leaders in Liberia, and others we meet along our journey. TEAM MEMBERS will need the following: • A calling to go to Liberia and help me with this mission. Like to take photos? Lead daily

devotions? Be the team “Doctor” or “Nurse”? Team cheerleader? Logistics coordinator? • Personal funding to cover the costs of the trip. • General good health and personal stamina. • A willingness for adventure, new culinary treats, and a desire to meet others who want to

help families of prisoners, people behind bars, and the ‘least of these’. I will need to raise funds to help cover my way, and also to pay for costs for Liberian team members, American team members if we raise enough, and supplies for the trip. 1. All donations given to Wings are tax deductible. 2. All donations given to Wings for a mission trip are tax deductible, even for possible future

team members, provided the following: a. All donations are given to Wings and can’t be returned to the donor if someone is

not chosen for the trip, can’t go, etc. b. If more money is raised or donated to Wings than is actually needed by an individual

to cover their costs or the whole team’s cost, all that money remains with Wings and can’t be returned to the donor.

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Transforming lives to break the generational cycle of incarceration since 1995.

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2270 D Wyoming Blvd NE #130 Albuquerque, NM 87112

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c. If the trip costs more than estimated, team members could be asked to do additional fundraising to cover the total costs. Those donations would be tax deductible, provided the funds were used by the whole team and not just one individual.

3. All team members must be chosen and determined by the Board. If an individual hopes to be a team member and starts fundraising and even contributes his/her own money to the travel fund, those donations are tax deductible. If that person is not chosen as a team member or can’t go on the trip for some reason, those funds may not be returned, but will be used by Wings for other team members or for future travel.

GENERAL WAYS to HELP: a. Make a donation b. Help with internet research – best travel prices, prisons, info about Liberia, logistics c. Help us get bulk antibiotics to bring to prisons, orphanages, and hospitals d. Help us get small gifts for people we meet – Seeds, aspirin, soap, pencils, pens,

crayons, stickers, toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc. ESTIMATION OF COSTS: $1600 Plane $1400 $100/day for 14 days (Hotel, lunch & dinner, driver and transportation) $200? Passport & Liberian Visa $75? Wings shirts & jackets (I’ve found it’s much easier to all have matching team

shirts to wear. We don’t ruin our good clothes and people can always see us as a team. I’ll have a full list of what to pack, bring, etc. Probably 4 different Wings shirts and a jacket.)

$100? Shots (I have no idea about what your insurance may cover) $100? I’ve found it best to have team members bring their own breakfasts & snacks.

Often breakfasts are strange in foreign countries. That way we start with food that is familiar to us. We bring coffee, teabags, instant oatmeal, granola bars, etc.

$500? Extra money for unknown expenses ? Spending money I would like at least two other people to go with me from the U.S. to make the trip. I hope you will consider joining us. Thousands of people will be impacted by this trip and we plan to train hundreds of leaders so the Wings’ methods of ministry and education will continue to expand and grow. Thank you in advance for your support and prayers,

Ann Edenfield Sweet, Executive Director/Founder