REBUILDING CHILDREN’S LIVES, THROUGH THE LOVE OF CHRIST JESUS! Thank you very much for standing with us during the creation of the New Song campus. Many things have come together by the grace of God to get us to this special point of being ready for kids, watch to learn more...

1. REBUILDING CHILDREN’S LIVES,
THROUGH THE LOVE OF CHRIST JESUS!

2. Thank you very much for standing with us
during the creation of the New Song
campus. Many things have come together
by the grace of God to get us to this special
point of being ready for kids, including…

3. ACTVITIES INVOLVED IN CREATING THE NEW SONG CAMPUS
• Building a network of supporters (ongoing)
• Strategic Planning (ongoing)
• Incorporating New Song
• Building initial board of directors
• Gaining 501(c)(3) status
• Locating property
• Negotiating purchase of property and drawing up legal paperwork
• Assembling Site Planning Team of engineers, surveyors, and architects
• Surveying work and airplane flyover for topographical map
• Developing extensive campus engineering plan
• Creating home layout
• Creating detailed home architectural plans
• Preparing zoning documents
• Preparation for zoning hearings
• Presentations at zoning hearings
• Raising funds for land acquisition and infrastructure development
• Arranging contract to pay off land early resulting in significant savings
• Clearing land for road and bridge
• Developing bridge engineering plans

4. (cont’d)
• Construction planning (ongoing)
• Construction of road
• Construction of bridge
• Construction of pond
• Installation of utilities (water, electrical)
• Development of waste water treatment center engineering plans
• Installation of wastewater treatment center
• Locating offices for New Song (currently in 5th location of donated space!)
• Recruitment, training, and collaboration with staff
• Office management and administrative organization
• Board member recruitment (ongoing)
• Development and implementation of marketing program (ongoing)
• Raising funds for home construction and furnishings (ongoing)
• Recruiting home construction volunteers (ongoing)
• Hiring Construction Manager
• Home construction (ongoing)
• Interior design work (ongoing)
• Recruiting campus maintenance volunteers (ongoing)
• Supervising campus maintenance volunteers (ongoing)

5. (cont’d)
• Hosting events on campus (ongoing)
• Procuring home furnishing (ongoing)
• Procuring classroom furnishings (ongoing)
• Church presentations
• Board meetings
• Creation of trail system
• Trail maintenance
• Designing Recreational Park
• Raising funds for park construction
• Recruiting volunteers for park construction
• Construction of park
• Developing educational program philosophy
• Choosing curriculum
• Choosing academic assessment tools
• Developing houseparent handbook
• Developing staff handbook
• Developing student handbook
• Developing houseparent training materials

6. (continued)
• Houseparent interviews
• Houseparent hiring
• Houseparent training
• Developing intake plan for children
• Developing referral source marketing plan
• Developing referral source marketing brochure
• Developing brochure for parents
• Academic development
• Learning and growing in faith in the Lord (ongoing!)

7. Please pray that the Lord brings children to live on the New
Song campus soon, in His perfect timing. We are making
two significant efforts to outreach to kids in need:
1.Creating and distributing a substantial brochure for
referral sources.
2.Legal research on working with kids who are currently in
the child welfare system.

8. Please pray for these two outreach efforts.
We hope you enjoy this brief 2014 recap and
photos of the campus!

9. Some of the 2014 progress at New Song:
• 93% of all capital improvements completed!
(for phase one campus development)
• Home B finished and furnished!
• Houseparents for Home B hired!
• Teaching Coordinator hired!
• Home C progress made (kitchen flooring, basement
flooring, interior trim, interior
doors hung)!
• Recreational park partially completed!
• Docks rebuilt and placed in pond!

10. 2014 Progress (cont’d)
• Internal policy handbooks created!
• Academic planning!
• Total monetary gifts received= $559,867!
--total # of gifts=1,253
--total # of givers=283
• Total 2014 year-end giving=$107,000!
• Total given by monthly givers=$46,000!
• Total given by churches=$46,000!
• Donated man hours of labor=1,982!
• Value of donated labor =$45,190!

11. Summer missions team
activities…

23. NEW SONG ROAD

24. HOME A

25. HOME A LIVING ROOM

26. HOME A KITCHEN

27. HOME A BEDROOM

28. HOME A CLASSROOM

29. HOME A ACTIVITY ROOM

30. HOME B (PARSONS HOME)

31. PHILL & ERIN PARSONS (and Livy & Malachi!) Home B Houseparents

32. HOME B LIVING ROOM

33. HOME B KITCHEN

34. HOME C

35. RECREATIONAL PARK

36. POND

37. We thank the Lord for His wonderful provision in 2014,
AND we thank you for your steadfast prayers and
support!!!
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the
glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed
everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is
the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as
head over all.”
(1 Chronicles 29:11)

38. Some of the important goals we have for
2015 are:

39. 2015 Goals
OVERALL GOAL: God’s glory being revealed through the launching of
the ministry!
•Develop and print referral source brochures
•Distribute referral source brochures to 200+ entities (schools, teachers,
churches, etc.)
•Complete legal research on working with kids in child welfare system
•Fill Home B with children!!!
•Hire houseparents for Home A
•Fill Home A with children!!!
•Hire second teacher
•Complete Recreational Park

40. 2015 Goals (cont’d)
OVERALL GOAL: God’s glory being revealed through the launching of
the ministry!
•Complete Home C
•Hire Houseparents for Home C
•Grow the number of individual supporters
•Grow the number of supporting churches
•Expand support from businesses and foundations
•Bless supporters through a Fall Festival Celebration in October, 2015
•Prayerful planning related to ministry and campus growth

41. How You Can Get Involved
•Attend “Second Saturdays” Open Houses in April, May, or June!
•Pray for children to come to New Song!
•Pray for our houseparents! (Phill and Erin Parsons)
•Sponsor a campus home! (www.NewSongMission.org/Safe&Sound)
•Organize a summer missions trip to campus!
•Host an event in your home for New Song!
•Pray for all of our other 2015 goals!

42. “Let the little children come to Me…for the
kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”
(JESUS, MARK 10:14)