Subject: We are over halfway to our goal!

We are over halfway to our goal!

June 14th, 2024 at 4:01 pm CDT

June 14, 2024 I am really pleased to let you know that we are more than halfway to our goal of giving out $200,000 in scholarships in 2024. In the first semester of the year we gave out over $110,000 to students for training at ALERT. Here is how you ...

The Sergeants Club | June 2024

June 12th, 2024 at 4:09 pm CDT

Dear Sgt. Club,  You don't hear from me directly often in this club, but I thought I would take an email from Sam to convey a few things to you guys.  First of all, thank you guys for being a part of the club. It was Sam Winkler's idea a few years ...

ALERT Update | June 11, 2024

June 11th, 2024 at 2:30 pm CDT

June 11, 2024 “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves This quote from C.S. Lewis sums up why camaraderie is such an important part of ...

Deployment Update | June 10, 2024

June 10th, 2024 at 8:00 am CDT

June 10, 2024 ALERT is deploying a team today. Location: Tyler, TX Dates: 6/10Units Deployed: ERU Mission: Helping with tree cleanup and removal after heavy storms and flooding Prayer Requests: Safety while doing sawyer work, opportunities to sh ...

Missions Class Iraq Trip Update

June 6th, 2024 at 10:23 am CDT

June 6, 2024 Myself and the ALERT Missions class recently arrived home from a trip to northern Iraq. We had the privilege of partnering and volunteering with a humanitarian aid organization serving refugees and internally displaced peoples in the Kur ...

ALERT Update | June 4, 2024

June 4th, 2024 at 3:00 pm CDT

June 4, 2024 Last Friday Unit 69 graduated from ALERT, and we closed out the spring semester. I wanted to share a quick recap of everything that happened here in the past five months. We had a very large 2nd Phase this winter with 44 students, as wel ...

ALERT Alumni Update | May 2024

May 30th, 2024 at 8:09 pm CDT

May 30, 2024 Dear Alumni,   If there was ever an old ALERT saying that still holds true to this day, it's that the days are long but the weeks are short . It is hard to believe that another quarter of forging has come to a close.   Unit 70 advanc ...

ALERT Update | May 28, 2024

May 28th, 2024 at 4:45 pm CDT

May 28, 2024 Here at ALERT we strive to teach each man self-discipline: how to wake up on time, work out regularly, and read their Bible daily. These are all good things, but they all come after our foundation of the Gospel. We know that as good as d ...

Urgent Request for Help from Samaritan's Purse

May 27th, 2024 at 11:57 am CDT

Greetings to our friends and alumni: I’ll cut to the chase here with a special and somewhat urgent request. As you know, we have had a great partnership with Samaritan’s Purse over the years, and our opportunities to deploy with them have been va ...

The Sergeants Club | May 2024

May 24th, 2024 at 10:51 am CDT

Hello! We are sprinting to the finish of the spring training semester; Unit 70 advances out of Basic Training this afternoon, and Unit 69 graduates next Friday. After that it’s a quick summer break and we start back in late June with the next semes ...