Thank You
Bob Striler and the Axe Methodist Church crew, with the help of many others, work tirelessly to pick up and deliver donations. Every donation is a precious gift to arriving refugees, people in need locally and to many in need abroad. The Axe Methodist crew also installed pallet racks in our warehouse to better utilize the space. For every gift – thank you.
Container
Two 40-foot containers have been sent to Mexico since our last Update – one to Matamoras and one to Casa de Esperanza in Anahuac. We are trying to send a container to Nairobi and Kosovo through the government’s humanitarian transportation program. We continue to have difficulty holding the containers due to inadequate warehouse space while paperwork is being completed. There will also be two 40-foot containers of orphanage furniture sent to Mexico and Croatia in August.
Medical Cases
Our first medical patient arrived June 19 to the cheers of friends and family. He will be treated for a heart condition at Baylor Garland.
Three young men await final arrangements for their trip to Dallas/Ft. Worth. Two of them are brothers – one needing a prosthetic for his right hand and the other needing nerve grafting in his left arm. The third is a twenty-year-old with a malignant tumor in his leg. All are coming filled with hope.
Sierra Leone
We received a $500 donation for Samar’s family to join him in the U.S. A
loan was arranged for the remainder of their airfare. You may remember
that he fled the country under extremely dangerous conditions but was
forced to leave his family behind.
Sanctuary
Bob Clark and his family will arrive in Dallas August 5. Because we do
not have the financial provision for the property in East Texas as we’d
hoped, we’re not sure about how we will proceed. We must continue to look
at every possibility. Several patients are on hold in Kosovo because of
the need for long-term housing. These are the circumstances that teach us
more about faith and the need to listen to the voice behind us that says,
“This is the way, walk in it” (Isa. 30:21).
A Work Out of God's Heart
From our early beginnings, we’ve known that there are wonderful efforts
born out of a desire to feed the hungry – ideas turned into ministries. A
work out of God’s heart is different. It waits until we’re exhausted from
our own effort. If it is God we’re seeking to please, He will show us how
our own ideas get in the way. Our Update is different than most you will
receive. Our primary goal is to inform you and to give a sense of how
incredibly God takes our gifts, large and small, and gives hope to people
who have lost hope. A gift might be information about a job,
encouragement, a new idea of how to help, or a prayer. Mother Teresa of
Calcutta says it this way, “No gift is too small. When you give it to God,
it becomes infinite.”
Thank you,
Rae England
Executive Director