Monday, July 6, 2009

Ways to Help

There are several ways in which people can support my upcoming Volunteers in Mission trip to Zimbabwe (July 22 - August 4). There are five of us who will be going from the United States for this purpose. Our primary purpose will be to work on the Skills Training Center in Zimunya, which is sponsored by the Compassionate Consultative Initiative Project-Zimbabwe. I would invite you to:
  • Pray for this project, including the VIM team, local workers, and the Mutare District building committee,
  • Contribute one or more new pairs of work gloves that can be taken and given to the local workers on site.
  • Contribute a full-sized soccer ball to be given to one of the schools near the Skills Training Centre.

Along with the VIM project, our team will have the privilege of visiting Africa University and the Fairfield Children's Home, which is located on the grounds of the Old Mutare Mission Centre. I would invite you to:
  • Pray for the continued effectiveness of Africa University and for the work being done at the Fairfield Childrens Home (which provides care for up to eighty children and youth) and the Old Mutare Mission Centre, including the mission hospital there.
  • Donate one or more new (wrapped) bars of soap, that will be given to the Fairfield Children's Home.
  • Donate new "over the counter" medications that can be given to the Old Mutare Mission Hospital. (You can e-mail me for a suggested list).
In addition, I have the particular privilege of attending worship at the Streamview United Methodist Church near Mutare. This is the congregation with which First United Methodist Church in Hutchinson is building a relationship. It turns out that I will be there on Sunday, July 26, which is their annual "Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday." I have been invited to preach on that occasion! I would invite you to:
  • Pray for me (and the congregation) on that Sunday (perhaps doing so the night before, since we will be eight hours ahead of Central Standard Time in the United States!)
  • Contribute to the "Harvest Thank Offering" to be received at First United Methodist Church this Sunday, July 12, and the following Sunday, July 19, that I will present to the Streamview congregation on July 26.
  • Sign the "Future with Hope" card at First United Methodist Church on Sunday, July 12 or July 19. I plan to take the signed card with me and present it Streamview congregation on July 26.
Many of these ways to help, of course, are limited to persons in or near Hutchinson, KS. However, prayer knows no limits or boundaries, and I invite you to share especially in this means of support!

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