April 21, 2013

James 2:14-20: “Dear friends, do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it?”

Here is a recap of the mission blitz through Wesley UM church on April 20:

189,000 meals packaged in the gym, 39,000 more than the 150,000 goal.  Rainbow Network took the additional 39,000, meals. Rainbow will send 89,000 meals to Nicaragua instead of 50,000.  The 39,000 additional meals at .17 cents a meal is $5,850.  

The youth collected 5 large pallets of food at the two Wal-Mart stores and 2 more pallets were collected at Wesley and loaded into the Ozark Food Harvest truck this morning.  Each pallet weighs 500 pounds, so 3500 pounds was collected today.  Added to the 4057 pounds  picked up last Tuesday comes to 7,557 pounds of food. More will be collected at church on Sunday. An unknown amout of cash donations were also made at the stores. . Meals on donated food are calculated by dividing 1.5 pounds into total weight, so 8,000 pounds equals 5,333 meals. Ozark Food Harvest will give the final count of food and money on Monday.

The sewing blitz resulted in 157 baby blankets being made.  

The dining room at Harmony House has a new floor and fresh paint.  About 30 - 40 women plus an unknown number of children (my bad) from Harmony House were fed breakfast and lunch and enjoyed a Spiritual Spa put on by Wesley volunteers. Plus they were given a tote bag which they filled with personal beauty products.  

The Wesley ramp builders completed 3 wheel chair ramps. 

On Thursday the Singing Ambassadors did their mission blitz singing at 3 nursing homes and at Daybreak adult day care.  They said they had a blast.

Guide us Lord as we live out our faith in our actions and deeds. May Your Holy Spirit live through us producing the fruit indicating the reality of the new life in Christ.