Pizza Night

Posted on July 14, 2010 by

Help send our daughter Elisa to Portugal.

Order handmade New York style pizza from

Brothers Pizza

615-791-8383

Delivery • Carry Out • Dine In

Located at Reid Hill Common, at the corner of Downs Blvd and Highway 96 West next to Walgreens

A portion of every purchase today after 4pm goes to her mission trip (see below).

  • Stop by for dinner. Elisa will be there to answer questions
  • Order pizza to be delivered for your family
  • Grab some take-n-bake pizzas and stock your freezer

If you’d like to contribute instead of or in addition to your pizza order, follow these easy steps:

  • Click here to go to the donation page
  • Click on the button for “OM Missionary”
  • Click “next” to go to the next page
  • Enter the following:
    • OM Missionary Name:         ELISA WHITLOCK
    • Where They Work          Transform 2010
    • OM Missionary’s Code          2279018
  • Fill in your billing information and click “next”
  • Confirm your gift

Here’s information about the trip in Elisa’s words:

I would like to share with you an awesome opportunity I have this summer and include you in my journey. From July 19 – August 8, I will be on a mission trip with Operation Mobilization (OM). OM works all over the world, sending people from several different countries alongside full-time missionaries to spread the Gospel. This trip is a part of Transform 2010—a big outreach to the peoples of the Mediterranean area, which is actually inside the 10/40 Window (the least reached areas of the world).

Transform 2010 • July 19 - August 8 • Operation Mobilization Arts • visual art, music, and dance to spread the gospel

I will spend a week in Rome, Italy, at a training conference with all the other Transform 2010 participants and then travel to Algarve, Portugal, for my outreach. I am specifically going on this trip with OM Arts, a division of OM that uses visual art, music, and dance to spread the Word. I will be joining five other dancers from OM Arts’s dance ministry, DanceLink, dancing in the streets, in churches, and such, and maybe even doing a dance workshop.

I first heard about OM Arts when some of the staff came up to my school, Bryan College, and shared with us during a couple of chapels. In February, I went on a retreat for a Bible class at Bryan College called “Arts and Missional Living” held at the OM Arts headquarters. I got to meet all the staff and feel like I am already friends with them. I had a blast while I was down there and loved having the opportunity to dance. Most importantly, though, God made me realize that He doesn’t care how well I dance: He cares more about whether or not I am using my gift to worship Him in spirit and in truth. He wants me to push myself to excellence, but He would rather I dance poorly with a pure heart than dance with perfect technique and a proud heart. This truth freed me from self-degradation, and now I can worship God like never before! After thinking and praying about it for a little while, I decided to go on this mission trip. I am so excited, and I can’t think of a better way to go on a mission trip than to dance!

Will you please pray for me as I prepare for my trip and travel “across the pond?” This is my very first mission trip, so I am kind of nervous. I have been overseas before, but that was to China, and a mission trip require you to get in touch with a culture in way completely different from tourism.

Please pray that:

  • Our travels will be safe
  • We would rely on God’s strength and not our own
  • God would reveal more of His great glory and marvelous love to us … and those we meet
  • The hearts of the people of Portugal would be opened to God’s word
  • People all over the Mediterranean will be touched by Transform 2010.

I would love to keep in touch with you in the days leading up to my trip and while I’m overseas. I will be posting pictures and updates to my Facebook profile, so if you’re not my “friend” already, go ahead and search for “Elisa Whitlock” on Facebook and friend me. If you would like to receive email updates, just send me an email at elw.enpointe@gmail.com, and I’ll put you on my email list.

Thank you so much for your prayers and support! They are appreciated more than you know.

I pray that God will bless you and, as Paul prayed, that you will be able to “grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

Your sister in Christ,

Elisa

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About wmarkwhitlock

Mark Whitlock is a life-long communicator who loves to connect life-changing content with creative presentation. Mark began communicating through broadcasting. He cut his teeth as a stringer reporter for an NPR affiliate. He spent a year of early mornings behind the microphone as the morning drive announcer for WMSL-FM89. After college, Mark headed to the Front Range of Colorado and worked with Focus on the Family’s daily broadcast team. In 1992, he moved his family to Little Rock, Ark. When he helped launch “FamilyLife Today.” Mark served as the engineer and producer for the daily radio program “FamilyLife Today” for five years. Mark became the acquisitions editor for FamilyLife Publishing in 1998. He has been responsible for and contributed as an author to more than ten FamilyLife resources including Passport to Purity, Jonah: A Very Veggie Family Adventure (published in cooperation with Big Idea), and the amazon.com best-seller Simply Romantic® Nights. In 2004, Mark joined Thomas Nelson Publishers as a ministry consultant where he helped ministries in the Eastern U.S. with strategic planning, donor development, product development, author relations, and custom publishing. He helped sign two authors with the company. In December 2005, Mark became a Senior Acquisitions Editor in the Bible Group on working on reference titles. Mark’s job was to help the Bible come alive through creativity, understanding, and application. Mark has written several Bible studies for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Mark served as the Creative Director for GSF Media, a Nashville-based agency concentrating on radio—compelling programming, effective advertising, and life-changing fundraising. He traveled to great radio stations and networks across the country on behalf of the children of World Vision, one of the largest non-profit organizations in the U.S. recruiting more 13,000 child sponsors in the process. He hopes to finish his first of many novels, The Ledgers, before he loses the rest of his hair. Mark and his wife Kaye celebrated 20 years of marriage in 2010. They live and laugh with Michael (16), Lauren (13), Meileah (8), and their two dogs in Franklin, Tennessee. Their oldest, Elisa, is doing great in college. Visit Mark’s blog at wmarkwhitlock.wordpress.com. Read samples of his work at whitlockportfolio.blogspot.com. Read about their adoption at homepage.mac.com/wmwsdg.
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