FacebookI 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.