Hello everyone!
We here at Missions are continually amazed and thankful for each of you loving from your heart and giving generously. During this uncertain and challenging time; with your generosity we have been providing 50 bags for our Hispanic BPB families of Langston Chapel Elementary School along with masks bought by members and given to us by the City of Statesboro. To fulfill the next 4 weeks, we need 200 of each of the following: juice boxes, fruit cups/applesauce and raisins. We are expecting a shipment of masks for children this week. We included a note to the families written in Spanish with the Scripture from Psalms 56:3 “When I am afraid, I will trust in you” and mask wearing instructions. Be on the lookout for a new way to encourage participation of our children in this essential mission..we want them to have fun doing it also! We are also stocking our Little Free Pantry every other day with the following requests: personal sized shampoo, conditioner, men’s and women’s deodorants. Also with the extreme heat; bottled waters are much appreciated. We also started placing masks in the pantry. We all look forward to the day when we can be together; greeting each other in person! Until then continue taking care of yourselves and each other. Blessings, The Mission Team Jesus continually reminds us of His love for all His children: “He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.” John 21:17 NRSV Good afternoon, everyone!
As we enjoy this warm day in Georgia, we are praying for your health and safety. We are so blessed to have online worship services to sustain us through these challenging times. We get to have a fill-up for our weary spirits with the most beautiful music, children’s time and our much-needed sermons that motivate and inspire! Thank you to everyone working so hard to keep us connected all week long. We would also like to keep everyone connected with our Mission outreach. Last week, we visited Second Harvest as we needed to buy peanut butter and raisins for which we will pay $7.90; but we picked up a total of 460 lb. of non-perishables in total at no additional cost. While we were there, a Second Harvest employee asked if we could use some fresh bread. She gave us 60 loaves of sandwich bread; talk about the loaves and fishes! This week, we are extending our relationship with Charlene Hendrix-Hill and Lifeway Church hoping to meet some recipients of our outreach. Remember to continue collecting jars of jelly so we have enough for the two week period when the school children will not be served by the county. We are supplementing an additional bag with peanut butter, jelly and bread to help them through those two weeks. We are also collecting, organizing and distributing diapers of all sizes. As always, we thank everyone for their donations, coordination and delivery of food and especially your prayers for us to continue to help! We also continue to stock the Little Free Pantry every other day and it is being used as it usually is empty when we stock. There is also a variety of books for folks in the Little Free Library; if anyone has some gently-used great books to share, please bring to the donation room. They are so much appreciated. One verse that stands out right now is from Micah 6:8 “He hath showed thee, O man, what is good;and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?” Blessings, The Mission Team |