BIG PLANS IN THE WORKS for 2010!

The Africa Mission Team of St. John has big plans for our next trip in September, 2010!

We have been working very hard to expand this ministry and serve the widows and ophans of Kenya. On our last trip we met many children who were in need of sponsors so they could attend school, purchase a uniform, and receive a good meal while there. After discussing the need with Deaconess Lorna Meeker we determined a monthly amount that would take care of those needs. We took pictures of the children at the Luther Academy in Kibera, the school on the grounds of Springs of Life Lutheran Church where Pastor Dennis Meeker and Deaconess Lorna serve. On returning home in October '09 we set about getting those children sponsored. Through the generosity of the people of St. John and a few non-members, we currently have 37 children sponsored! We have a goal that all 76 children at the Luther Academy will be sponsored and an additional 26 children we met at a Maasai Village near Kisumu will be sponsored. (Currently we have 11 of the Maasai children sponsored.) Please prayerfull consider sponsoring a child! The cost is only $35.00 a month. You will be blessed beyond measure and so will the child that you enable to change their life.

We also have several projects in the works:

Our "Klinic for Kenya" project entails purchasing a 8 ft X 40 ft cargo container that will be filled, with the generous help of Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, medical supplies and equipment, diapers, clothing, and anything else we can get in it! That cargo container will then become a medical clinic in the Nyansa province of Kenya. Watch for the container in mid June in the parking lot at Crittenton Hospital, adjacent to St. John.

We will also be asking the school children of St. John Lutheran School to fill a shoebox full of hygiene products and school supplies for the children in Kenya at the Luther Academy and the Maasai village.

We also look forward to collecting clothing and shoes from our St. John annual Rummage Sale the third week on June. If you would like to contibute anything for the coantainer, please contact Deaconess Linda Nobili at lnobili@stjohnrochester.org. Let's fill it to the brim!