QUESTION:
Does the space needed by sewing and craft donations equal or exceed the space in the van?
Check back Feb. 8 or 9 for the answer and for the beginning of daily reporting on our misson team work...at least we hope to report daily!
Thursday, January 25, 2007
ALMOST TAKE-OFF TIME!
Covenant Presbyterian Church in Frazer, PA has been donating lots of sewing and craft supplies over the past few weeks for our friends in Reynosa, Mexico. The question: will everything in the second picture fit into what's in the first picture--especially since even more has been given since the second picture was taken? Donations will be packed into tubs for greater efficiency, but, we wonder... Lighter items, like batting and yarn, will be shipped if there’s not enough room in the van.
Eight team members will work with women and children in the 1st Presbyterian Church in Reynosa. They will make things for themselves and friends, and are encouraged to sell extra items to supplement their meager income. This is a greatly impoverished area where, we’ve learned, the women considered making larger squares for the rag quilts and pillows they learned to make last year because they wouldn’t need to use as much thread—a poignant indication of the level of poverty.
Frank and Joyce leave Feb. 4 in the van, and the rest of the team, Barbara, Ginny, Dick, Millie, Pat, and Becky will fly to McAllen, TX Feb. 8. The team stays in a very nice, but very reasonable, Days Inn in McAllen and drives across the border each day to Reynosa. (Carl, who leads CAMT’s WV teams, says, “You don’t have to suffer to serve.”)
Becky is new to the team this year. She’s on leave from mission work in Mexico and, more recently, Paraguay, and will lead the first three days when she’ll teach clowning as a way of witnessing to God’s love and forgiveness. We’ll make clown costumes and learn how to convey the message Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, the clowns will do brief “shows” in Sunday School, church, and, in the afternoon, for the general public. Hopefully, this will be an on-going outreach program for their church since clowning is very much enjoyed by the Mexican people—especially the adults.
The rest of the week will be spent with women and children making all kinds of sewing and craft items: knitting fun fur scarves, embroidering tablecloths and denim jackets, weaving pot holders, making appliance covers, painting vases, decorating tee shirts—and lots more.
We ask for your prayers for safe travel and for effective witnessing to the love of Christ as well as to the love of the congregation at Covenant.
Eight team members will work with women and children in the 1st Presbyterian Church in Reynosa. They will make things for themselves and friends, and are encouraged to sell extra items to supplement their meager income. This is a greatly impoverished area where, we’ve learned, the women considered making larger squares for the rag quilts and pillows they learned to make last year because they wouldn’t need to use as much thread—a poignant indication of the level of poverty.
Frank and Joyce leave Feb. 4 in the van, and the rest of the team, Barbara, Ginny, Dick, Millie, Pat, and Becky will fly to McAllen, TX Feb. 8. The team stays in a very nice, but very reasonable, Days Inn in McAllen and drives across the border each day to Reynosa. (Carl, who leads CAMT’s WV teams, says, “You don’t have to suffer to serve.”)
Becky is new to the team this year. She’s on leave from mission work in Mexico and, more recently, Paraguay, and will lead the first three days when she’ll teach clowning as a way of witnessing to God’s love and forgiveness. We’ll make clown costumes and learn how to convey the message Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, the clowns will do brief “shows” in Sunday School, church, and, in the afternoon, for the general public. Hopefully, this will be an on-going outreach program for their church since clowning is very much enjoyed by the Mexican people—especially the adults.
The rest of the week will be spent with women and children making all kinds of sewing and craft items: knitting fun fur scarves, embroidering tablecloths and denim jackets, weaving pot holders, making appliance covers, painting vases, decorating tee shirts—and lots more.
We ask for your prayers for safe travel and for effective witnessing to the love of Christ as well as to the love of the congregation at Covenant.
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