M-4 success!

On Friday afternoon, Nov 17, I met with Jeff Witten from World Vision at El Montecito Presbyterian church about noon. "Bad news" Jeff said, "Only 1/2 our shipment is here. The other 1/2 is sitting in a shipping terminal in Oakland." What should have been unloaded and staged for the Saturday morning coopoerative event with World Vision did not arrive until 8:30 am and the event began at 9:00 am!
But the Body of Christ rallied! One guy called for a fork-lift, others broke into groups to off-load the truck, and separate the boxes into the staging areas in the Fellowship Hall of Elmo. By 9:30 the room was ready and we all gathered to watch a video on how the care kits would be used. Everett Steven, Bill Lindberg and Jim Prudden were the work-horses for MCC. Other members came and stepped into line to hand items to packers. Christine Groppe (95 yers old) packed kits along side Sarah (10 yrs old) and Nathan ( 7 yrs old) and all ages in between. About 200 came and we packed ALL 1000 kits. The picture above is the last packers (some had to leave early) laying their hands on the boxes containing the kits as Sister Kathleen Patrice from Mt Carmel Roman Catholic Church prayed over them.
Ginny Murray emailed me with the tally as of 8/18 $5185.00 and our goal was $5,000. It was a powerful experience for me to see members of the M-4 churches working together, packing the kits, then going off and writing individual prayers for the care givers who would receive these kits in a couple months in Rwanda.
How great it was to work together for Jesus.