March Mission Trip

Well this is interesting - instead of our group growing as we near our time to go to Africa - instead of it overflowing and having to turn people away - instead of feeling bad and taking more people than we really feel comfortable about - instead of all that - we are at this time a fairly small team. In fact we got an email from JoEllen last night that she will not be able to go at this time; and it looks as if Josh will not be going either! So at this time we are 8.

What do you have for us Lord?

Will we be "The Lean, Mean, Fighting Machine"?

Is it Gideon's Army that can give more glory to you when we accomplish with few what is miraculous to do?

Or is it just so we can all fit in a single vehicle for once!

But then there is our good friend Joyce in Canada (I think she is 55 :) who is praying about coming, and Liana is going, though she does not know it yet! (For some reason God told me about it before her! Strange.) And who knows - maybe YOU should come!

But anyway - it is still open for you to join if you want. Aprox $2000 and an application due by Feb 1 (or so). Write to open-door@onlinemac.com for more info. Look down on a lower post, where I have the itenerary laid out.

We are having a fundraiser "Mega-Mexican" dinner for the Mandate School students who are going, as well as for the orphan work we will be engaged in:

Sat, Jan 20, 5-6:30pm at some large church in Sheridan. Dinner is free, with an offering taken. There will be a report from the team going to Liberia, the team going to S. Africa, and Orphan Hope. There will also be a silent auction on pies and donated goods and services. Write mandate_schools@yahoo.com for more info.

For those of you who know Sally McKibben and the work she has carried for 20 years in South Africa - Thembalethu - pray for her. She just went thru cancer surgery and she is loosing some major funding for her home health care ministry, some key people have left - well, you can see - she needs the prayers of the saints. And if that ministry goes down, there are 3000 orphans and 250 orphan headed households she is carrying, not to mention hundreds of AIDS patients who will have no one to care for them... Pray as you read this: Jesus, bless her with a substantial blessing from you today. Amen.