Last week I had the privilege of attending the 48th anniversary of the Retirement Housing Foundation (a UCC health and human services organization) and one of the staff told me this great news:  some of their residence craft groups want to provide all 500 bags for the SCNC School Kit challenge!!  Isn't that awesome?  So here's the deal:  if you are working on school kits and want these bags, please contact Chris Ragon at the Retirement Housing Foundation to ask how and when you can get the bags!

 

By the way, I was delighted to learn that 6 churches in the Central Association have challenged themselves for a Lenten mission project to do 100 school kits! That gets 1/5 of the way there!  HURRAH!  At the end of this month I will attend a Church World Service board meeting and look forward to telling them of our project.  I hope we go OVER the goal!  Don't forget: this makes a great Church School project and a super children's time is to take something like a 'pencil' and ask the kids how excited they would be if that was the only gift they got for Christmas or birthday. Then explain about kids in other parts of the world who are as excited about school kits as kids are about electronic games here.

 

Lenten blessings!