In May of this year Apostle Daryl Thies will return to the country of Georgia where he who affirm and look in on the 16 churches he started and established throughout the 90’s. During these years in Southern Russia and Soviet Georgia thousands of lives have been touched with God's Glory. 20,000 born again and 16 churches started with "cells". Additionally Daryl distributed 17,000 Georgian New Testament and Psalms and 16,500 Christian books have been translated into the Georgian language and distributed.

Apostle Daryl Thies will plan to leave for the country of Georgia sometime mid May. His plans are to reaffirm the churches he has set up as well as visit with all of the church leaders for a time of training and ministry. If you would like to help underwrite or support this mission trip please contact Impact Ministries International at our regional office in Gastonia, North Carolina. You may call 877-397-5263 and ask to speak with Brother Andrew.

Currently, IMI is providing the finances to cover the airfare round trip. We really need around $3000 to make this trip a success. We are half way there and trust that the Lord will provide the rest. If you feel moved in your heart to financially support this mission project IMI will see to it the LHI ministries / Daryl Thies receives every penny of your donation. At the end of this message we will tell your where to send your donation. Funds need to be received no later than May 5th for this trip.

Here is a little background on LHI and Daryl Theis. Latter House International began in a jail cell as Daryl Thies, Vietnam vet and addicted to drugs, turned to Jesus Christ with a Godly sorrow. In one glorious sweep down and then back up his body, Daryl was saved, delivered, and filled with the Holy Ghost.

After attending Bible School, Daryl and family pioneered 5 churches in MI and VT. On a trip to Moscow and Leningrad in '87 a vision for the former Soviet Union was planted deep in their hearts and in '93 the call was "TO GO."

Daryl and his wife Sally have been faithful to that call. They have comeback to the states a few years ago and methodically have relocated their ministry offices in Atlanta, Georgia were we find the highest concentration of Georgian immigrants in the United States. At present they have established multiple home cell groups within their region among this ethnic people. To take a closer look at LHI you can go to their website located at: http://www.latterhouseinternational.com/default.htm

Since the early nineteen forties there has been a major push to have all churches and their integrated auxiliaries file for and receive a letter of determination by IRS declaring approval of their tax exempt activities.

For more than 60 years the church has been coaxed, advised and admonished by well meaning Attorneys, Certified Public Accountants and Non-profit specialist providing corporation services to religious groups. For the most part primarily, these legal professionals have stipulated it as necessary and proper protocol for all non-profit organizations to file form 1023 for letter of determination by IRS of their tax exempt status. This particular filing is what takes a church or ministry into the 501(c)(3) jurisdiction.

However, in all of this time there have been a select few who have made a concerted effort to educate ministers and separate the church from being swallowed up by an ever-changing law system created by IRS. Such laws and codes were meant to govern and control all financial and administrative activities of the church while at the same time placing a gag order in every pulpit in America for the congregations having received such 501 (c)(3) status. The trade off for the church or ministry receiving such recognition from IRS is overwhelmingly stacked against the church.

Let me tell you the one and only benefit you receive from IRS for taking your church or ministry into a 501 (c)(3) status. This benefit is only indirectly related to the church or ministry. Here it is in a nut shell. It all is tied to those who donate to your ministry.

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If IRS ever audits an individual tax payer who has donated to your ministry and they see that the taxpayer claimed a deduction, IRS reserves the right to challenge such gifts. If IRS sees that the donation was sent to a 501 (c)(3) organization they will automatically not challenge the giving of that donation. However, If the same taxpayer has sent a donation to an organization that has not received 501(c)(3) status and IRS audits that portion of their giving receipts, IRS reserves the right to disallow the tax deduction. Thus, they put the burden on the taxpayer to prove that your ministries activities are of an exempt nature. Their not being able to do this will cause them to loose their deduction on that portion of their giving.

When a church decides that it wants to provide this degree of certainty to its donors by electing to receive 501 (c)(3) status, this one solitary benefit causes the church to be put in bondage to all of the IRS protocols that they use to govern non-profit organizations. There are literally hundreds of rules and regulations that now will govern the operating affairs of this ministry or church, just for wanting to provide a certainty to a donor that their deducting will not be challenged by IRS.

That’s the IRS Secret. If we the church voluntarily file, comply and accept 501(c)(3) status, then IRS gets to regulate all the business affairs of the church.

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One clear option is for every church leader to teach their people to Give as unto the Lord expecting Him to bring blessing back into our life. Stop looking for the deduction from IRS. Let us earnestly look to the Lord to provide our blessing rather than to the government to provide a benefit. Did you know that statistically over 70% of the American people filing an annual return do so on a standard 1040 short form and automatically have a built in deduction for the taxpayer anyway. It just does not make sense to have a tax deduction as our motivation for giving.

I tell you the truth and lie not, this is the nexus that has led the church into bondage having to serve two masters. It is also the very reason why the church has to keep giving records on all of their people. You will not find anywhere in Holy Bible where the church is told to keep track of a persons giving.

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The church is tax exempt by the law of the land and by statutory law. Title 26 USC 6033 says that all churches their integrated auxiliaries, association of churches and conventions are tax exempt and able to receive tax deductible contributions. That’s with out filing for 501(c)(3) status. IRS Code 508 provides an exact rendering of statute 6033 here mentioned.

The church has for the past one hundred and forty years had available to it a very specialized legal formation known as Corporation Sole. Corporation Sole is an ecclesiastical structure that allows for a church to be recognized by the state and United States while remaining an unincorporated entity. In other words, Corporation Sole is not created by the state, but is recognized by the state as a valid corporation.

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Corporation sole set up as a church provides a number of benefits you would not be able to have as a 501(c )(3) organization.

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Starting in the month of May, Impact Ministries International will be launching an international advertising campaign to welcome Christians from all over the United States to learn about and become part of our organization.

We will primarily be concentrating our efforts in two distinctive ways. First, we want to setup and establish many home cell groups. With this in mind, IMI has already developed teaching tapes for our cell group leaders from which they can study and prepare for short Bible studies. We also are in the process of updating our website to have a members only access where our leaders can have teaching sessions in a downloadable MP3 format. Doing this will enable our ministry to be completely mobile and span the globe. Secondly, IMI is also interested in working with groups of believers who desire to become a church body with an Apostolic spiritual covering. IMI will be able to provide ministry support and leadership training for those desiring to become an IMI Fellowship.

Impact Ministries International was founded and established back in January 2002 by Sr. Chaplain Andrew DeDominicis. God has given us a plan to be a wise master builder in the body of Christ. Our fervent desire is to equip the saints to respond to the work of the ministry that they truly would become ministers of reconciliation, as they bring the world to Jesus.