Patsy, sister of DS Meeks’ wife Crystal and Area Director Harriet Rojas, is in hospice and not expected to live. Please pray for her and the family during this stressful time as they wait for her homegoing.
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Who we are, what we do
Wesleyan Kids For Missions is a program to teach kids about missions, missionaries, and salvation. This program for which materials are written fresh every year can be used at any time kids are gathered in church – during midweek kids’ service, Sunday School, kids’ church, or other times. Parts of it can be used successively throughout the month during other functions.
WKFM encourages regular student membership as well as Honorary Membership (anyone over grade six or 12 years of age). $1. membership goes to missions projects and registers your church with a valid registration.
Officers are ready to answer your questions now so use the email listed which will be rerouted directly to the officers of the organization.
2010-2011 DISTRICT PROJECTS
I hope everyone was able to attend our annual district conference on July 7. At the conference we voted to adopt two district projects. The first is an immediate need, which is to raise the remaining $4,000.00 shipping cost for one shipping container to send more than 40 mattresses, layettes, sewing machines and other collected items to Sierra Leone. The full cost is actually $9.000.00, but the Ashers have already raised $5,000.00 of that total. This balance needs to be raised by the END OF AUGUST 2010! So please focus on donating to this project and send designated money to Dawn Jordan, the WW District Treasurer as soon as possible. For Dawn’s mailing address, forms, or any information, please contact Dawn at dawnjordan@charter.net .
After we have concentrated on raising the money for the shipping container, we will continue on with the Chickens and Goats Project that we have been doing. The total we raised in the 2009-10 fiscal year for this project was $3,939.55. This is a great amount, but when added to the $6,881.85 we raised in 2008-09 we still fall short of our original goal of $15,000.00 to feed every Wesleyan pastor’s family in Sierra Leone. We are SO CLOSE! Let’s not get discouraged but encouraged by the thought of how families have been helped so far and continue with renewed vigor to meet our goal by the end of this fiscal year!
OTHER WAYS TO HELP
Bonnie has informed me that Dr. Asher can also use spiral notebooks for their school in Sierra Leone. There are spiral notebooks that come on sale for 15 cents a piece at Walmart. Bonnie suggests that those who wish to may want to purchase a case (or however many) and email her at bonnieboroff@yahoo.com about arrangements to get them to the Ashers.
Everyday Projects – stuff you can do anytime
I collect sewing machines and accessories, fabrics, baby layette items, school supplies, medicines, etc. for Sierra Leone. They are the poorest country in the world, barring Haiti, perhaps, right now.
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New Projects You Will Love…
East Michigan Wesleyan Women continue to encourage our women to connect to others and God more closely. We have adopted three major international projects for the year; you may become involved by contributing and or adding your ideas and input. Project 1 is raising 4,000 toward $9,000 needed to ship mattresses and medical equipment, baby layettes, sewing machines, etc. to Sierra Leone, West Africa to help there. Project 2 is continuation of providing chickens and goats to families there for protein sources (eggs and milk). Project 3 is informing our people about and fighting human trafficking here and around the world.
Anti-Human Trafficking
Convention was busy! Martha Beecher and her crew presented the Human Trafficking problem. There is a wonderful packette from Wesleyan Women General about it available to the churches to educate and teach what to do to fight it.
Let’s be 21st Century Abolitionists.