The Circle Journey (formerly Home Tour) is BACK!

With a timid excitement and hopeful heart, the Circle Journey Tour (formerly home tour) is making its return in July of 2025. We say timid, because our road––covid and post covid––has been uncertain. As we had posted many times before 2020, we were in need of replacing much of our touring equipment. Of course, as it did for so many, covid changed everything. We were on hold indefinitely. Since then, we have been able to make two trips on mission; both of which confirmed our great need for more suitable/functional touring gear. And so, we made the need known and waited.

Fast forwarding to 2024, we have been blessed with church groups who have requested that we take their students out on mission even as many of our former Group Homes have reopened (along with a few new partners whom we will introduce shortly). That being said, we couldn’t say no, and have simply stepped out in faith and have begun to book the tours.

We’ll be starting off with a summer leg (July 6-18), covering Winston-Salem, NC (training), Live Oak, FL (Florida Sheriffs’ Youth Ranch group home), and Orlando, FL (Orlando Union Rescue Mission). We are happy to be partnering with a youth group from Venice, FL along with a collaborative group of students from the Triad of NC.

*a note on Orlando Union Rescue Mission: This is a new partner for us! We were blessed to visit them for a Christmas leg in 2022 and simply fell in love with the place! Housing 50 or more single moms and dads with their children (infant - teen years), providing shelter, meals, career training, financial counseling and more, they are a model for discipling in the hardest of places! We are so excited about the invitation to labor with this beautiful outreach ministry in the Orlando area.

In view of these opportunities, we wanted to make the present need known once again, trusting Holy Spirit to move on hearts to meet the need. Specifically, to travel well (safely and efficiently) we need: two 18’ heavy duty crank stands––6 sticks of 11.48’ box truss––wireless mic system replaced––front lighting––new road box wheels!!!––road case parts––x2 power generators / inverters & x8 10/3 100’ extension cables––replenished mic cables––misc. odds and ends.... The total needed to make all this happen is $25,00.00 on the low end––$27,000.00 on the high.

If your heart is stirred to help, you can learn how from the DONATE link below. You can also contact Scott Reid for specific details at your convenience.

Thanks so much for reading!

More updates will be along shortly!

Orlando Union Rescue Mission Update!

So so grateful for the time at the Orlando Union Rescue Mission! It is truly a very special place in the city. Can’t wait to return in June of this year for the first leg of the Home Tour. For those who gave to make it happen, please know that your gift was significant. We have a few pictures posted below.

From there, we are on to the 127 Winter Retreat to be hosted at the YMCA’s Camp Weaver, March 3-5. You can click on the 127 Winter Retreat link in the main menu to learn more. We’ll have a full story about these days in the next few weeks. Three days to come around the wonder of Christ in you––> you in Christ––>you and Christ hidden together in God.

Also in the mix will be our hopes to build the teams that will be joining us on the three––possibly four––legs of Home Tour for the summer and winter of 2023.

In the meantime, we want to come back to a very real need. We desperately need some of our equipment replaced and or repaired. Specifically, we need:

two 18’ heavy duty crank stands––6 sticks of 11.48’ box truss––wireless mic system replaced––front lighting––new road box wheels!!!––road case parts––x2 power generators / inverters & x8 10/3 100’ extension cables––replenished mic cables––misc. odds and ends.... The total needed to make all this happen is $25,00.00 on the low end––$27,000.00 on the high.

It was 2007 when we last updated or truly repaired our touring equipment and has become a desperate need. Will you pray about helping us? Feel free to contact us through the contact email or listed phone on this site with questions. If you simply want to give now; you may do so through the DONATE link at the bottom of this page or mail a check to 121Inc: P.O. Box 26, Wallburg, NC 27373.

UPDATED!!! Christmas at the Orlando Union Rescue Mission December 29-31

For the past month, Scott has been daily posting pleas for help with this venture on Facebook. A few weeks ago, the need stood at $9000. Today, thanks to gifts in kind, unexpected discounts, and a few financial gifts, the amount needed to make this happen is now $4500!!!!

To that end, we are taking the time and space here to invite your support and help for this particular leg of the Children’s Home Tour. However, before that, let me tell you a little bit out the Orlando Union Rescue Mission (O.U.R.M.) Operating out of inner-city Orlando, Florida, O.U.R.M. serves in an environment that is, by-in-large, hidden from public view. Amidst deteriorating, residential low-income housing, strip clubs, adult stores, dilapidated store fronts, and unmanicured sidewalks, this Christ-centered lighthouse brings the rescue of Jesus to a very hard place 24/7.

While, like most rescue missions, they offer daily meals, clothing, and general support to the community’s homeless population, O.U.R.M. has taken things a step further. They have also invested in and offer long-term housing for single mothers and fathers in need. In addition to this, education, encompassing Biblical discipleship and financial life skills are offered as well. In short, O.U.R.M. is looking to give a hand-up versus the proverbial hand-out. At present, they are housing 180+ adults and children on campus.

In view of this, we can’t express our gratitude and excitement at the opportunity to bring the Home Tour to O.U.R.M! While not technically a Children’s Home, their mission is an all-too-familiar one for us. To that end, we are asking for your help. As we have in the past, when going in December, we are coming to share the gospel and to throw as extravagant a Christmas party as we can for these precious souls.

And for that, we will need your help. Our team will be arriving on December 28 to load in, with the first of our five worship gatherings to begin on Thursday December 29 culminating in a New Year’s Eve Christmas celebration on the evening of the 31st complete with personalized Christmas gifts for every soul (180 +) in residence at O.U.R.M.

Each adult will receive a 121 t-shirt, 127 winter hat, CSB compact leather bound Bible, and rechargeable led flashlight. All children, ages 9 and under will receive the Jesus Storybook Bible. All Children and teens will receive a 121 t-shirt, 127 winter hat, CSB compact leather bound Bible, and a handheld retro nintendo game console; constituting a $50 value gift for each resident. In addition, every gift will be individually wrapped with personally labeled tags and hand-written Christmas cards. (The gifts mentioned are pictured below.)

Would you consider making an early Christmas gift to 121 to help us purchase these presents for O.U.R.M? If we act early, we have the opportunity to purchase these items in bulk and to have them wrapped before departing NC on December 28. Again, the cost per person is $50, however, every bit counts and for every dollar given, we are so grateful. The total need is estimated to be between $8500 & $9000 depending on residential census at the time of our going (As UPDATED above, the need is now $4500!!!!). As always, you can give in the following two ways: Online: simply click on the Donate button below and be sure to designate your gift (Christmas Gifts) in the space provided during the check-out process OR by check, written to 121 Inc. and mailed to P.O. Box 26, Wallburg, NC 27373. Again, be sure to designate Christmas gifts on the memo line.

As always, thanks so much for helping us bring the rescue of Jesus to hard places.

121 team