November 5, 2011
I am just trying to hit the highlights of what is going on here… every week I am in 2 bible studies and the Healing Home. I have now volunteered to head up the AGIF Giving Tree event. We are getting a bit of a late start, so I am doing double time to catch up. I need to assemble a team of folks to help pull this effort together. Here are a few of the highlights from our flyers…
This year, AGIF is helping children at Pudong’s Zi Lou Lan Migrant School. Most children live in one-room (single room home) with no heating and community showers. Families are from inland provinces and work as farmers, construction crew, garbage collectors in our city, and live on a very small income. The average monthly incomes is only 2000RMB which in USD is about $300.
Please consider helping these underprivileged children, who are in need, and fill your bags with new items: a coat, shoes, socks, hat, gloves, a personal item, and a note of love and hope.
It will be a lot of work, but so worth the effort. These children have such a spirit. For us, there is a ceremony on December 15 where we will deliver the bags to the children in person. From those that have participated in the ceremony in past years, I am told it is amazing and so wonderful to see the delight and appreciation in the eyes of these children.
This ceremony also gives us an opportunity to introduce these children to God and what he means to us and can mean to them. We can illustrate God’s love and how he provides for his children. We can show them a little bit of God’s hope and grace.
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