EARTHTRACES

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EARTHTRACES

Earth·Traces / '&rthtrAsés / noun - discovering the purposes of and path for one's existence on Earth.

 EARTHTRACES PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL

EarthTraces is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt public foundation which began programs in 1995 with the purpose of building church, community and family through fellowship and individual growth through onsite events.

In 2007 the foundation divested its event programs and staff and has since focused on providing matching grants for Christian churches, schools, governments and 501(c)3 organizations that meet our organizational goals (above). Program grant requests may be submitted through our event partners TheEventLine.com and EventSupercenter.com and other event production companies that can provide for any event need. EarthTraces Foundation has no ownership in or control over any of these contributing companies.

For more information please visit: www.TheEventLine.com or EventSupercenter.com (regional sites: ATL.EventSupercenter.com, SL.EventSupercenter.com and KC.EventSuperCenter.com). 

EARTHTRACES 2010
STRETCH GOAL:
Impact
25,000 lives for Christ!


2010 GRANTS LIMITATION NOTICE: Grants to non-Christian Organizations suspended in Kansas City to provide funding to combat Linda Wagar Fox 4 Kansas City TV anti-Christian media. Funding is available to those organizations that join the boycott of Fox 4 Kansas City until Ms. Wagar is terminated.

Christian Organizations often must battle Satan's forces even from unexpected places. Program grants in Kansas City will only be available to Christian organizations due to recent attacks on the faith by anti-Christian media. This was demonstrated by the faith bashing reporting of Linda Wagar ("When the Truth Does Not Matter") of Channel 4 Fox Television. Linda Wagar with no factual basis, fraudulently reported our Foundation was "non existent" (because we would not violate our privacy oath and name persons who received grants) and attacked our efforts through giving credibility to the lies of deviant persons who were hired in a "employ the hard-core unemployed" program, all of whom had arrest records, mental illness and/or substance abuse and all of whom were dismissed for theft from partner organizations. None were employees of the Foundation or members of churches the Foundation supports as Linda Wagar, Fox 4 Kansas City reported. Almost nothing she voiced was true and what's worse she KNEW it. She intentionally decided to ignore the truth and disregard the documentation that was carefully provided to both her and to Channel 4 management. By interviewing persons who had no knowledge of the facts then hiding behind "we only reported what was told to us" they created another misleading Christian bashing story. There have been more than 5 in the last year, each twisting the truth until it was false. We must all be wary of this serious bias in her reporting and in the television station that allows it. We note after our calling her on this, she became even more devious, then voicing double meaning stories including one named a "church full of generous soulds help a lady" (--- not souls). This demonstrates the depth of her depravity and wickedness. For those who may have overlooked this (as she hoped), "soulds" in the urban dictionary means one who has had their soul sold to the devil. This is what she thinks about Christians even when they go out of their way to help another and receive nothing in return. Join with us in boycotting Channel 4 in Kansas City until they terminate Ms. Wagar and stop their Christian bashing stories.

Grant summary for 2009;  $57,220.00 total.

ST. LOUIS - KANSAS CITY - ATLANTA

2/27/2009 | $194.00 | Queen of All Saints
2/28/2009 | $282.00 | Autism Alliance of Greater KC
3/7/2009 | $88.00 | Harvest Ministries
3/21/09 | $634.00 | Hope House
4/5/09 | $675.00 | Dodge High School
4/18/2009 | $3,907.00 | Autism Alliance of Greater KC
4/19/09 | $111.00 | Wamego High School
4/19/09 | $511.00 | Easton High School
4/19/2009 | $2,188.00 | Newsong Fellowship
4/24/09 | $627.00 | Relay For Life
4/25/09 | $771.00 | Sweet Springs High School
4/25/09 | $1,625.00 | UMKC Athletics
4/25/2009 | $682.00 | First Baptist Church
5/1/2009 | $2,000.00 | Mexican Honorary Commission
5/2/09 | $18,269.00 | Tanner Medical Foundation
5/7/2009 | $537.00 | Missouri Contemporary Ballet
5/9/09 | $661.00 | Park Hill High School
5/9/09 | $163.00 | American Diabetes Assoc.
5/17/2009 | $492.00 | Chesterfield Presbyterian Church
5/28/2009 | $336.00 | Lindbergh High School
5/30/2009 | $2,644.00 | Bayless School District
6/7/09 | $271.00 | Air National Guard
6/26/2009 | $847.00 | Gospel Mission Tabernacle
7/4/09 | $2,557.00 | New Life Church
7/11/09 | $283.00 | Green Forest Baptist Church
7/11/09 | $88.00 | Tabernacle Baptist Church
8/27/09 | $7,445.00 | Atlanta Habitat for Humanity
8/29/2009 | $247.00 | Grace Community Fellowship
9/5/2009 | $164.00 | Little Chapel Church
9/13/09 | $1,173.00 | Polkville Baptist Church
9/20/09 | $771.00 | Faith AME Zion Church
10/3/2009 | $326.00 | Sherman Church of the Nazarene
10/9/2009 | $2,336.00 | City of Edwardsville
10/22/2009 | $392.00 | Scott Air Force Base
10/23/2009 | $500.00 | Intervarsity Outreach
10/25/2009 | $129.00 | West Side Christian Church
10/28/2009 | $162.00 | 1st Baptist Church of Arnold
10/31/09 | $1,188.00 | New Life Church
12/28/2009 | $944.00 | Illinois Baptist State Assoc.

FOX 4 KANSAS CITY BOYCOTT (cont.): We realize that this will impact a dozen or so groups that received grants from us in 2010 but this step is important so that the Church may have a better opportunity to defeat the foothold Satan has garnered in the media there. Schools, governments and 501(c)3's outside 100 miles of Kansas City remain eligible.

UPDATE: A liable suit against Linda Wagar and Fox 4 Kansas City has been dropped and will not be filed based upon attorney's advice. Because Fox 4's reputation, believability and viewership were so poor, it was not possible to demonstrate harm or damages to the Foundation that their intentional lies created. It is noted that in the 9 months since the termination of the problem employees, no additional thefts have been noted, no sexual harassment complaint against workers have occurred and no safety issues have been raised in the Foundation or any companies we partner with. The dismissal of these workers was entirely appropriate and time has laid the truth bare.

We apologize to the 7 Kansas City region public schools that were not able to receive grant funding for their end of school year programs this Spring. Hopefully the boycott of Fox 4 will be resolved and Ms. Wagar dismissed before next grant season.

THE INFORMATION BELOW IS OFFERED FREE TO ALL. LEADERS AND SUPPORT FOR THESE PROGRAMS HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED.


...In the heat of the day and in the pouring down rain, your staff never complained and represented EarthTraces (and our Lord) exceptionally well. In a nutshell, I was way beyond impressed with them and wanted you to know they are doing you a GREAT GREAT job!

DH-Youth Director, Lees Summit, MO.

 
 

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..."Who has measured the waters in
the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth
of his hand marked off the heavens?
Who has held the dust of the earth
in a basket, or weighed the mountains
on the scales and the hills in a balance?"
--Isaiah 40:12


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