By the time you read this many of us will have made it back to Michigan. It was a quick mission trip! And most of us (I didn’t talk to everyone) would come back again! The kids were especially enthusiastic. I learned that our church is one of the few that come to Henderson with such variety in the ages of its participants! Bravo for FUMC Ann Arbor for being willing to grow disciples for Christ at any age!
Jerry Lambdin who is the director of the Mission Outreach arm of Henderson Settlement, gave a short presentation yesterday about the history of Henderson Settlement and talked about the pervasive poverty in the area. We learned that Henderson is involved in many different areas of assistance – from an agriculture ministry (with 4 greenhouses, 60 beef cattle, 90 meat goats and two Great Pyreneans goat dogs!), to a food pantry (giving out 250 boxes of food a month), to 400 out-in-the-community work projects a year (helping 150 to 200 families). I could go on... Our trip really does help provide for the basic needs of the people in this community – not only the work projects that we did on people’s homes but also the donations we brought with us – little things like a bag of flour. We have all been blessed to be able to help out in this little corner of the world.
See you all soon,
-- Carol
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