As you know, we are going on a mission trip to Uganda! Last night our mission team of women got together for our first training session! See, the women in our group are going this July to teach, and learn from, a small group of women. We will be teaching them some Bible study methods, as well as some important health and hygiene lessons. It's exciting because this small group of women will be able to take what they learn and go out to teach and influence others in their community. We are so grateful that God is already preparing the hearts of these strong, intelligent, beautiful women to spend this week with us.
The ladies on our team have decided we'd really like to make this training practical by equipping them and leaving them with practical gifts when we go. We have already been hard at work raising money for our trips and this would be an additional expense. So, we are asking if any of you would want to help us bless these women in one of the following ways. We would be SO grateful and you would definitely be impacting many lives in a significant way.
1. Donate 20 of the same item. (There will be approx. 15 women in our training and up to 5 serving us at our guest house that we want to include.) Please contact me for a list of items so that you can choose--we don't want the same ones to be purchased. Examples are certain medicines for the health portion, band-aids, tweezers, markers or pens, magnifying glasses, page protectors, etc.
2. Donate money for items we can get there. We would love to make sure all the women have Bibles and to give them Bible handbooks, but these would be better bought over there because of the weight in transporting. The same might be true for some soaps and other items.
3. Donate an item for a Facebook online auction. We can't plan a fancy event because we're using our money and our time preparing for our journey, but if several people want to donate an item, we will be so glad to put an online auction on Facebook to run for a week in June and advertise for the donor. We will let everyone know when it's up and send the link out!
Thank you for your prayers, support and love,
Carrie and Jason Kanapkey
