Thanks
For Your Donations for THRIVE
AFRICA!
Thanks
to all who donated time and
treasures to the Thrive Africa
Mission Trip garage sale
fundraiser. The sale was held
May 22-25 at the Horanoff’s
house and was a smashing
success! Between garage sale
proceeds and some cash donations
by garage sale patrons, more
than $2,100 was raised to defer
costs for the mission trip.
Items not sold (and they were
mighty few!) were delivered to
Goodwill in Mt. Pleasant, for
sale in their thrift shop. The 3
person mission trip to South
Africa begins July 9, and ends
July 30. If you still want to
help you can! (read more)
Summer
in Michigan is winter in South Africa
and the poor in that country need warm
essential clothing now. Thrive Africa
coordinators inform us that there is a
demand for socks, hats, gloves, and
small throw blankets. We kept two
suitcases from the garage sale (we’ll
probably come up with a third) and
intend to fill them with these essential
items and take them with us to deliver
to those in need. The suitcases will be
displayed somewhere in the Community
Church building. You can drop these
essential items in the suitcases any
time up until about July 8.
To date, approximately
$1,175 in cash has been given to the
church through generous donations of our
friends, family, and church attenders.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! More donations are
needed and it is not too late to help.
If you wish to make a charitable
donation of any size, please make your
check payable to Mt. Pleasant Community
Church and write Thrive Africa Mission
Trip on the memo line. Donations are
welcome from now through the end of the
trip to help defray the expense.
This
mission trip will focus efforts to
evangelize in a part of the world where
1 in 4 inhabitants suffer from HIV. A
three-person team of Community Church
members will visit this region for three
weeks during which time we will visit
homes, orphanages, hospitals, detention
centers, and impoverished communities.
It is our goal to learn how to love and
care for these people, to bring them the
Gospel of Jesus, and to bring what we
learn back for use in our community. We
hope this will also be a trip to pave
the way for future AIDS mission trips
for Community Church to sponsor in the
future. To learn more about this
organization please visit
www.thriveafrica.org. To learn more
about the specifics of the mission trip,
contact Brian Horanoff at 772-0125 or
brianh@bglas.com.
