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As with last year, the Lord really poured out His blessings on our project again! All in all we were able to give out 40 food bags, close to 100 gifts with scarves, hats and gloves, and over 125 candy bags with scarves and hats!
For the food bags we had way more than what would fit in a basket so we got IKEA bags. If you have never seen one of these bags they are HUGE. A person can easily slip inside one! We filled it with quite a bit of groceries. Each bag had in it:
*A ham
*Milk
*Bread
*Flour
*Sugar
*Rice
*Pasta
*Tomato paste
*Jelly
*Juice
*Coffee
*Mlinci (Croatian side dish)
*Croatian Jarred salad
*Chips
*Cookies
*Soups
*All purpose seasoning jug (they use this for everything! From seasoning rice to making soup!)
*Shampoo/Body wash
*Pâté
We gave these to some families in our churches, some needy families that we knew of and then we contacted Social Services and got 11 families through them., This was a perfect outreach to them. We delivered the food one day.On another day we went back and delivered gifts for the children and gave each of them one of our new New Testaments with Psalms. We plan to continue to reach out to them in the coming weeks and months, praying they will come to the saving knowledge of Christ and His salvation!
We have seen some very poor families. It will break your heart to walk up to a run-down, cold barn to find a family of 5 huddled inside. This is their home. I am reminded of words to a song...
A mother grieves for her starving child;
She has no shelter from the cold
Earthly provisions will ease their suffering,
But who will feed their empty souls?
Yes, we can temporarily provide some food or things, but the bottom line is they need Jesus. Nothing more, nothing less! That is the ultimate goal through all of this. It is not to boast all what we have done, not to show of what you have helped do, nor is it to show some pictures that will pull on your heart strings. It is solely to show the love of Christ to these souls, that they may KNOW Him. Thank you all who gave. Thank you all who prayed. Without your prayers and support and gifts we could not have done it!
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| The van was FULL! |
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| Round 1! |
The gifts were collected by Bro. Leslie from people and churches across America. They arrived on his container and we got right to work finding the right home for them! This was a lot of fun! We do not know every individual who gave, but the Lord knows who you are and we thank you so much for giving!!
Also on his container were scarves hand made from a multitude of ladies around the world taking part in a project called, "Wrap Croatia for Christ". These will help keep many children (and adults!) warm this winter.Thank you H.O.M.E Teams of Rendon, Texas and everyone involved with this!
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| Scarves |
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| Bro. Kevin and Noah taking inventory |
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| The boys helping sort the boy gifts |
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| Girl Gifts |
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| Candy for Trnovec |
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| There was order... for about 45 seconds! |
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| Hats for all! |
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| Anarchy! |
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| It's ok, Brother. We're alive! |
Our last 'Hurrah', if you will, was to pass out gifts to our van children.
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| waiting patiently to hear their names called |
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| Sretan Božič! Merry Christmas! |
Until next year.....!!
