Monday, February 06, 2012

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The Honduas Medical Mission Team

The Honduras Medical Mission team will once again serve in Honduras August 26 - September 1, 2011. The clinic will see about 450 patients in five days of operation. This year there will be thirteen people on the team: three physicians, one nurse practitioner, two nurses, and seven support persons.

Montazanales, Honduras is a small village high in the mountains far removed from any medical care. Transportation is very difficult and for many villagers, the Team may be the only medical personnel they ever see. The Team looks forward to returning to the village as the reception by the people is always exceptional.

Please keep Larry Akey, Joanne Beattie, Betty Blackmon, Steve Carstens, Alisa Carstens, Lydia Castaneda, Jim Doe, Lina Naylor, Sue Nyberg, Bill Roach, Maria Torrez, Israel Trujillo, and Cheryl Weber in your prayer.

Goodies Bags for Women Prisoners

Parishioners are invited to help with a Christmas Goodie Bag project for women prisoners at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.

Now is a good time to collect travel size items such as bath gel, body wash, soap, lotion, deodorant, and shampoo.

Other items needed for this project are such things as toothpaste, thoothbrushes and small combs, greeting cards, wood pencils, pens (with clear, colorless barrels), and paper pads (5"x7").

Deacon Francie Levy will be collecting these items and distributing them at the prison in time for Christmas. Donations may be brought to the church office at any time.

Food Barrel Ministry
St. Paul’s continues to gather food each and every week. Parishioners are encouraged to bring a few non perishable items and place them in the barrel at the Church entryway. All donated food and money is given to Visalia Emergency Aid, to help needy members of our community.

Sister Ursula's Kitchen
St. Paul’s Church continues its ministry to the poor by helping prepare and serve meals at the Good News Center on the 2^nd and 4^th Fridays of each month. And, of course, parishioners help clean up afterwards! Additional help is needed with this ministry, so anyone willing to be a part of it is asked to contact the church at 732-4821 or Don or Lousie Ford.

Anglican Relief and Development

                       URGENT -
            Donations Needed for
                      Horn of Africa

Nearly half a million children in the Horn of Africa are at risk of dying from malnutrition and disease because of the severe famine in the horn of Africa. More than two million children in Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia and parts of Uganda are desperate for food, water and shelter. The most innocent and vulnerable 3- and 4-year old children have bodies the size of 9 month old babies. Scenes of mothers and children at risk cry out to everyone. This has been called by some as the children’s famine. The continued drought confirms that the food crisis in the Horn of Africa is the worst humanitarian emergency in the world today, and there is little likelihood of improvement until 2012.

Click here for more information or to make a donation.

URGENT - Donations Needed for Horn of Africa

Click here for more information or to make a donation.

URGENT -
Donations Needed for
Horn of Africa