Meeting #1

I just spent a few hours with Dr. Blessman, whose organization I will be going through, and was really impressed with his heart and the things they have been able to accomplish. The meeting has charged me up to find all of the money I need to be able to go. I spoke with him briefly after the meeting and asked how many houses they hoped to build on the trip. He said his goal is 20 at $4000 each, but he'd love to raise enough money to ship 30 pre-fabs down. I'll be interested to see what our church can do. When the body of the church was asked to donate to sink water wells last year in Ghana, the goal was 15 or so, can't remember the exact number. After all was said and done, we raised enough to sink 59 wells, which didn't surprise me one bit. I don't think I have ever been apart of a church that got "IT" as a whole. They understand the need to help, and for most of us, that means we give money. The church is so large, that even those of us that don't have a large amount of money, when put together with our other brothers and sisters in Christ with low funds, we can make a difference. Not everyone in our church could travel to Ghana to dig wells, but they gave what they could and then, hopefully, took joy in the final outcome knowing they were just as big a part of it as everyone else. It's a team effort, Team Christ, if you will. As a team, we are undefeated. We can't loose, but we should refuse to take our trophy and go home. We need to take our trophy to wherever we can, show it to everyone, and ask them to join the team. The best part of the team? You can't be cut and you will always be asked to play.

I have a trip meeting tomorrow, I'll post more info after that. Today's meeting was more for the whole ministry, which included the game farm, which was really interesting. Part of he money you pay to hunt on this farm, which is owned by the ministry, can be tax deductible. That is really cool. I'm not a hunter, I want to do a photo safari, but if I was a hunter, this is a great opportunity to bag an African animal and provide for a mission at the same time. A new sport for team Christ, hunting, who would have thunk it.