Friday, November 16, 2007

Gifts for Gracias Christmas Project - The Gifts Are Traveling South!

Today, in Poolesville Maryland, a 40' shipping container is being loaded for our ministry. It will contain construction supplies and equipment, as well as the donations for the Gifts for Gracias Project.

Also today, in Florida, a van is traveling to Tampa, to deliver the gifts which were collected in that location to the dock. The cargo ship with these items should be leaving sometime next week, to carry these gifts to Honduras.

So, in a couple of weeks time, we are expecting all of the donations for the Gifts for Gracias project to be arriving here in Gracias. We are still working our way through the distribution of the boxes of food from Kids Against Hunger, but we hope to have made enough space on our carport before these two shipments arrive!

Both of these shipments are departing much later than we'd originally planned. This is good, because if they'd arrived sooner we'd have had no place to put them! But, it is also difficult, as we will be hard pressed to have the distribution of the gifts done by Christmas. In fact, we generally do not finish by Christmas day, but the recipients don't seem to mind in the least. Hondurans have a very patient attitude!

We have two teams coming during the month of December, as well as the Christmas Gift distribution and completion of the food distribution. Although our holidays will be non-commercialized, they will certainly be bustling with activity!

We are so very grateful to everyone who has participated in this Christmas blessing for the pastors of Lempira!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They have in fact left!!!!

Anonymous said...

So glad to hear that the Gifts for Gracias are on their way.
Beth Webb