Posts from April 2023

Bikes for the World Collection Report

This report was written by Earl Smith. The Bikes for the World (BFW) collection sponsored by both St Mary’s Catholic Church and Burke Presbyterian Church on Saturday, April 22 was a great success. We collected 95 bikes and 2 sewing machines.  The bikes will be part of the next shipment going to Rwanda in the near future. BFW can usually get about 450 to 500 bikes in a shipping container. The BFW rep who picked up our bikes recently returned from a…

ECHO’s Client-Choice Room

ECHO has changed its model of food distribution to be more like a shopping experience. Clients are given guidelines on their quantity of items based on family size, and then they make individual selections in a “mini-mart” setting. Last Thursday evening, juice, instant coffee, olive oil and mayonnaise shelves were bare. Some of the most expensive items, these are often the first to go. And it wasn’t long before supplies of canned fruit, corn and mixed vegetables, bags of red…

Special Offering for Malawi

Special Offering for Malawi through April 30 Our congregation has had, and continues to have, a vital relationship with the people of Malawi through financial and spiritual support of medical and educational mission co-workers. Now our friends again need our help. Cyclone Freddy, perhaps the worst on record for most accumulated cyclone energy (ACE), a measure based on a storm’s wind strength over its lifetime, severely affected Malawi in March, causing massive death and destruction.  After the storm ripped through…