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Activities Report: April 2004 PORT MERCY 1019 North First Avenue, Lake Charles, LA 70601 E-mail: info@friendships.org |
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Warm
Greetings! Warm greetings Friends! Things are exciting as usual here at Friend Ships. We have much to report. PORT
MERCY:
Our
major
activity
here
at
Port
Mercy
is
preparing
for
our
upcoming
“Hope”
mission
to
Honduras.
It
is an
amazing
story
how
God
works
here
at
Friend
Ships.
Several
months
ago,
we
decided
that
the
mission
to
Honduras
would
be a
good
thing
and
that
we
wanted
to do
it.
There
were
many
things
we
needed
for
such a
mission
that
we did
not
have
and we
had no
finances
to
dedicate
toward
obtaining
them.
But,
we set
the
dates,
invited
doctors
and
speakers
and
set
out to
prepare.
We
prayed,
we
met,
we
phoned,
we
talked,
we
thought,
we
worried,
some
of us
fasted
and we
waited.
Now
as we
approach
the
sail
date,
we see
one
miracle
provision
after
another
with
the
Lord
providing
the
equivalent
of
$900,000
worth
of
medicine
and
also
medical
equipment,
tools,
tents,
personnel,
a
refrigerated
container,
mobile
kitchen
equipment,
port-a-potty’s,
hand
wash
stations,
food,
signs,
photocopying
anything
and
everything
that
we
need.
It
is
awesome
to see
Him
work
and be
a part
of
what
He is
doing
on the
earth.
The
“Hope”
sailed
May 22th
for
Honduras
and
over
the
following
six
weeks
will
visit
four
different
locations.
During
the
day,
we
will
provide
medical
services
to
those
in
need,
along
with
basic
health
care
training
and a
teacher’s
seminar.
Local
churches
are
being
asked
to
send
workers
to
help
us
reach
out to
their
communities.
In
three
of the
four
locations,
we
will
also
offer
a
Church
Leadership
Summit
on
three
consecutive
evenings.
Local
church
leadership
will
be
invited
to
attend,
the
final
night
being
a
banquet
with
wives
invited
and
other
community
leaders.
We
have
five
wonderful
men of
God
flying
in
from
Kansas,
Arkansas,
Louisiana,
Wisconsin
and
Mexico
who
will
lead
the
meetings.
Each
evening
we
will
have
dinner,
worship
music,
two
sessions
of
speakers
and a
time
of
discussion
so
leaders
can
strategize
on how
to
effectively
inspire
our
communities
toward
Godly
principals.
Friend
Ship
“Hope”
and
her
helicopter
“Angel
of
Hope”
are
being
prepared
now to
make
this
important
journey.
We
will
set up
tents,
bring
in
generators,
and
operate
with
self-sufficiency,
as we
would
need
to do
in
case
of a
disaster
and in
this
way
better
train
ourselves
for
disaster
response. We
are
also
preparing
equipment
and
supplies
to
deliver
to our
ongoing
program
at The
Village
in
Honduras.
A
large
crane
is
being
repaired
and
made
ready.
We
are
also
assembling
sports
equipment,
eyeglasses,
“glow
in the
dark”
shoelaces
(and
other
fun
stuff)
and
Spanish
Bibles
for
outreach.
We
are
shipping
materials
for
the
Friend
Ships
Art
School
that
we
intend
to
open
later
this
year,
that
will
teach
single
mothers
how to
produce
locally
made
quality
souvenir
gift
items
to
sell
to
tourists. StoreHouse
One
here
at
Port
Mercy
continues
to
collect
an
average
of
3500
pounds
of
food a
week.
Some
of
this
feeds
our
volunteer
crew
and
the
remainder
is
delivered
out to
facilities
that
help
men,
women
and
children
who
are in
shelters.
In
April
we
received
8500
“sacks”
of
individual
servings
of
milk,
half
of
which
was
distributed
locally
and
half
frozen
to be
used
on the
Honduran
mission.
We
have
just
been
blessed
by the
gift
of a
27’
x
11’
refrigeration
unit
so we
expect
StoreHouse
One at
Port
Mercy
to
grow!
Another
wonderful
outreach
that
received
supplies
is
Calvary
Chapel
based
in
Jerusalem,
where
the
staff
make
and
give
furniture
to new
immigrant
families,
also
teaching
the
men to
build
furniture.
In
addition,
they
offer
church
services
and
give
food,
clothing,
hygiene
supplies,
musical
instruments
and
whatever
else
they
have
to
share.
Food
and
supplies
from
the
ship
helped
greatly
to
supplement
their
other
resources.
Such
wonderful
Christian
works
going
on
around
the
world!
What
a
blessing
to be
part
of it!
LOS
ANGELES:
Los
Angeles
has
been
very
busy
collecting
and
distributing
food
as
well
as
offering
support
to the
new
ship,
“Fearless”,
in
Stockton,
California
and
loading
and
trucking
goods
here
to
Lake
Charles.
Food
operations
in Los
Angeles
and
San
Diego
continue
to
provide
20,000-25,000
pounds
of
food
each
week
to one
of our
favorite
outreaches
that
gives
aid to
very
needy
families
in
Tijuana,
Mexico.
Each
week,
many
people
come
to
know
the
Lord
through
feeling
His
love
by the
meeting
of
their
needs.
FEARLESS
in
Stockton:
Our
“Fearless”
crew
has
just
about
completed
preparing
the
ship
to
sail.
We
are
believing
God
for
the
$37,000.00
we
need
for
fuel
and
canal
fees.
While
a
small
team
finishes
up the
work
on
“Fearless”,
most
of the
Stockton
crew
reported
back
to
Port
Mercy
temporarily
to
make
the
“Hope”
mission
and
then
return
to
bring
“Fearless”
to
Lake
Charles.
God is reaching out to hurting people and we are grateful to be a part of it. 800 million people in the world go hungry every single day. Every one of us can be a part of touching lives. As Christians, it is our responsibility to do so. To help the poor is to honor God! Thank you for helping us to help others here at “Friend Ships”. |
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Updated June 2004 |
ISRAEL:
In
addition
to the
Joseph
Project
receiving
goods,
the
Mayors
of the
cities
of
Tiberius,
Bet-Shean
and
Hazor
in the
north
of
Israel
each
received
huge
amounts
of
clothing,
toys,
school
supplies,
hygiene
supplies,
blankets
and
paper
products
that
have
been
given
to
facilities
that
assist
new
immigrants
including
homes
that
care
for
children
whose
families
are
unable
to do
so and
other
families
in
need.
ROATÁN