The planning for the 2008 Mars Hill mission trip to Kenya is off and running. God has already been working to put things in place for the team.  A forty foot container has been secured and a group of donors from Texas (yes, Texas) has already donated $10,000 to pay for the shipping of the container to Kenya!! (Watch the newsletter and bulletin for updated lists of how you can help fill the container.) Les McEwing (who recently joined our church family) has pledged to make 300 wooden toys to put into the container! What a blessing that will be to the children!

God has already touched the hearts of people to start shoe collections for the children in a couple of our local schools. If you attended the presentation in August, you heard the story of Grandma Anna who had a leg amputated and her husband carved an artificial leg for her. She walked several miles with her grandchildren so that they could  meet some of the Americans who sponsor the children. One of the team members has found a source to make Grandma Anna a proper artificial leg and it is finished and ready to be shipped to Kenya. Other team members has been working with a charitable group called Medshare to try and get some much needed medical equipment donated to the hospital in Chuka. There are other stories of God's provision for the team and for the people in Kenya. God has been and is faithful to continue to work in and through the lives of those who serve His children.

Items Needed To Ship To Kenya

See below for items that Humphrey requested go into the 40ft container that will be shipped to Kenya in late February to arrive in May/June.  The deadline for all items donated is February 17th and items may be dropped off in the back of the youth house.  Everything must be clean and in boxes.

• Shoes: All sizes and kinds are welcome!  Please stuff the shoe w/a pair of socks and rubber band each pair together.
• Clothing: All sizes.  No pants, tank tops, swim suits or short skirts for girls or ladies.  Please make sure that all of the clothes are clean and only gently used.
• Plastic plates, bowls, cups, mugs
• Beanie Babies
• TOOLS
• Yard Tools - rakes, hoes, wheelbarrows, gas chain saws (must be empty of all fluids), weed eaters (must be empty of all fluids)
• Hammers, nails, etc.
• Plumbing tools: pipe vices, pipe ledge, dye stock, hack saw flame
• Metal working tools: welding machine, metal vice, metal grinders
• Medical Supplies: walkers, crutches, bath chairs, wheelchairs
• Bicycles: all sizes, in good shape please
• A HUGE canvas canopy for outdoor meetings
• Wooden porch swing for the orphanage

If you have questions, please call...
 -  Dickson Lester / 678-836-4391
 - Louise Mell / 404-291-7936
 - Cindy Turner / 770-789-4315