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 The 5th Annual Overtime
Fall 2009
Overtime was more than just one event this year. In the early months of 2009, key youth leaders gathered together to seek the Lord and plan about how this year’s event would unfold. Excitement began to build as leaders realized that Overtime would be more than just one event, but a series of strategically designed moments of impact culminating to life-changing decisions from teenagers throughout our community.
Visit the Overtime Webpage | Read the Overtime 2009 Mission Report
Talk of the Town Tour 
February 15-21, 2009 In partnership with community businesses, churches and schools, f2fmi organized 11 events to bring the Talk of the Town Tour with Innervation’s all-girl UK Christian pop band, TBC. During the week, hundreds of kids were impacted by TBC’s character education program and were invited to join us for the main event at Palmer Auditorium on the final day. At the main event, 400 gathered to see Scarlet Fade and TBC perform followed by Tom the Bomb who presented a message of hope to those in attendance. 22 decisions were collected including 10 recommitments and 6 first time decisions for Christ. View the Talk of the Town Webpage | Read the TT09 Mission Report  Overtime 2008
October 24-25, 2008 SE CT Youth Leader’s 4th Annual all-night youth event drew 550+ teens to our main event and all night events. Dwight Knight joined us from Challenge Ministries to share Christ. Paul Nichols, youth leader at Groton Congregational Church represented the f2fmi team by serving as the event coordinator along side of Gary Campbell (GBC) and Larry Grundy (NAC). 84 teens made decisions that night, which included 10 first time decisions and 64 recommitments to Christ. View the Overtime08 Webpage | Read the OT08 Mission Report  ECSU Friendship Banquet
April 28, 2008 The Friendship Banquet was an affinity style dinner held at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, CT. Our partners for this event were The Navigators, St. Paul's Collegiate Church and 180 Christian Fellowship. The gospel was presented by our Missions Director, Anthony Laterra and the hope was to help bring unity on campus. A small group of 45 students and leaders gathered and two individuals recommitted their lives to Christ. Our goal with the event was to help facilitate a church plant on campus in the future. View our Flikr Photo Stream | Read Our Team Blog Easter Sunday at Calvary Chapel of Southeastern CT  March 23, 2008
Tom Miyashiro shared the stage with former Govenor of CT, John G. Rowland, who was arrested, indicted and sent away to federal prison for mismanaging funds. Rowland shared his, "Fall in to Grace," before being sent away to prison and talked about how he came to find a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Tom Miyashiro follwed by sharing The Four Points and f2fmi Musicianary Ryan Griggs joined us from England to add a hip-hop flair to our service. With Palmer Auditorium nearly filled to capacity (around 1,000 in attendance), several gave their lives to Jesus Christ for the first time and many lives were rededicated to the Lord. Read our Team Blog | Visit Pastor Joe Paskewich's Blog | Watch the Service  Porn and Pancakes
February 2, 2008 Porn and Pancakes was a men's breakfast held at Pleasant Valley Community of Prayer and Praise in Groton, CT. The P&P Event was developed by X3 Church. The founder, Craig Gross as well as Brandon Piety (a member of Craig's team) spoke about the evils of pornography, the addictions it causes and some resources to help. 160+ men were in attendance and 12 recommitments for Christ with several asking for help regarding the issue of pornography. The event helped to facilitate conversations about sex and helped to shed light on the church's dirty little secret. View X3's Flickr Photos | Read Team Blog | View P&P Webpage  3rd Annual Overtime
November 9, 2007 The 3rd Annual Overtime was a huge success! 425 teens attended the all-night youth event. Hosted by the SECT Youth Leaders Network, the event was represented by churches all over Southeastern Connecticut with churches outside the region beginning to participate. Our featured speaker for the first 3 years was Felix Chivandire, who consistently preached to the teens of our region with fire of God. Last year, 17 teens made first time decisions for Christ! f2fmi's role was primarily promotional. However, our participation helped to build trust with our region for future events together. View the OT 2007 Website  One Shot Concert
October 26, 2007 "One Shot" is a multimedia tour by Chosen Records. The One Shot Event combines the use of several music styles and short film to set the stage for the gospel. Specifically, Bobby Bishop provides an explosive opening act with his hip-hop skills; the short film being woven in to his set. Then, Portland-based rockers, The Wrecking set the stage for the gospel with their unique sound. Finally the gospel is presented to teens. f2fmi participated in this tour in 2007 and this was our first event featuring Tom "the Bomb" Miyashiro in the role of the evangelist. View Facebook Album | View 1 Shot Webpage | Read the Mission Report  Decemberadio Concert at Calvary Chapel
January 14, 2007 Tom Miyashiro shared the stage with Grammiy-nominated, Decemberadio at Tom's home church, Calvary Chapel of Southeastern Connecticut. The auditorium was packed and several gave their lives to Christ. The evening was faith-charged and Tom’s humor and energy kept the crowd’s attention and had us laughing throughout. Finally, he wrapped up, telling with great enthusiasm, about the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ—that He is there, that He loves us, and that we can be saved by putting faith in Him. "More to Life Campaign" Lodz, Poland  November 12-19, 2006
The Mission to Lodz was an amazing success, reaching more than 2,500 people during the eight day campaign. Our team consisted of 13 unique individuals. The churches in the city had never worked together before and through the joint effort, 242 people came to Christ. Read Tom's mission journal here. Brad Butcher, of Passion 4 People International led the team in partnership with Luis Palau's Next Generation Alliance. Dr. Tim Robnett also preached an evangelistic track of events along side Brad at Affinity Dinners throughout the city. Lodz Program | Lodz Statistics  thebandwithnoname Schizophrenix USA tour
Jan - Mar 2005 thebandwithnoname USA Tour in 2005 is where it all started for Tom the Bomb. The two month tour spanned 12 states and reached thousands of young people for Christ in schools, concerts and churches. The tour was sponsored by Innervation Trust and is where f2fmi picked up its first two Musicianaries. The end of the tour resulted in the alliance of Innervation and f2fmi as Innervation's US office.
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