A Mission Trip - from More than more

Hello all! We are in the throws of finishing the touches on our 1st Mission Trip to Lafayette. We now have a place to give away free medical Family Practice Office visits, using the conference room of the American Red Cross, at 18th and Union St's, here in Lafayette, as well as 2 pharmacies, WalMart on St Rd 26 and CVS at Rte's 52 and 26, here in Lafayette for people to go and get free medicines.

We also have an a great week of fun and health education in the works for the families who may be coming, as the folks at the Howarth Center have agreed to let us use their East yard, yes all of it, for fun stuff. We have a young, energetic nutrition specialist who is going to come and talk to the families and we are hoping to have firefighters and dentists as well come and talk about health and safety through the week.

We also have well underway a plan to give away one basic need on three of the days to those who have need. We think that everybody should get a chance to have some nice new shoes, clothes and enough food to not have to go to bed hungry - and this week we are going to try to help some folks with this. We are partnering with WalMart to fill orders of shoes and clothes and we will be having people sign up for what they need in the mornings of these days, dropping the lists off at WalMart and then picking their orders up there in the afternoon, to be able to give out to the folks later in the day at Howarth Center the things they requested in the morning.

There are many of you in More than more who have volunteered to take time off work, come after work, etc to join in this wonderful chance to share the love we have found in Christ as well, and we will be helping Lafayette Transitional Housing, a local organization that helps the homeless find work and places to live with our skills in addition to all that is mentioned above.

Needless to say we are very excited about all this and needless to say the end preparations are requiring a lot of time and energy investment for Melissa and I - we would love to have anyone's help in praying for us - the entire More than more journey has been an exercise in learning to trust God and this is no exception to that. All that said, He is providing in amazing ways!