Looking back on our famine relief efforts earlier this year, I thank the Lord for the way he used all those who gave from their hearts and for the way the local churches and village leaders here helped with coordinating the distribution. The distribution ran from January 2012 to May 2012. We distributed a total…

Thank you so much for the overwhelming response to our famine relief efforts. In the end we had funds enough to purchase 307 sacks of maize! The official distribution started on the 17th of this month and has been going well. The villages around us that seem to have been hit the hardest by a…

The most recent donation report came in from the mission, and the final amount raised allows us to buy an additional 33 sacks of maize, taking our total to 163 sacks! Thank you so much! This coming week, while we are at our missionary conference and then off to the US for my sister’s wedding,…

Dear Friends and Family, Thank you so much for your generosity over the last month and a half towards our famine relief efforts. We now have enough funding to buy at least another 80 sacks of maize, maybe a little more depending on what the final September donation statement says. That puts us at a…

Through the generosity of many of you we’ve been able to buy the first 50 gunny sacks of maize to be used for famine relief. Thank you so much! We’ll continue to work on getting 50 more sacks as the funding becomes available. – Jon –

Dear Partners in Ministry, I’m sure you have heard on the news about the massive famine that has hit parts of East Africa (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/20/somalia.famine.explainer/), particularly Somalia and northern Kenya and Ethiopia. From the above article: ” The DEC — an umbrella group of aid agencies including Oxfam and Save the Children — reports that “more…