What God can do with $800.

An ACF 242 group applied to receive $800 from ACF 242 Impact. We knew of an urgent need in the nearby Apache Shores trailer park community. They required 40 pairs of shoes as well as clothing items for their school age children, yet we were in the application process for the money. We prayed for a solution to this problem and God provided $1500 to one of our 242 group members. He donated $800 to our small group and sent the rest to relief efforts in Louisiana. We bought the shoes and organized a clothing drive. When woman helped deliver the shoes and clothing she was overwhelmed by what she saw. These were desperately poor families, some kids living in cars, others piled too many to a room, on an old mattress. Yet, there was great love in these families! As she and her team delivered the various items, many families praised God, and expressed how they had just prayed that God would help them. One mother said that she couldn't send her son to school because he literally has NO shoes to wear. One boy who had to sleep in the family car, had no blanket, and his mother cried when a warm fleece blanket was delivered with his shoes. God is so good!

So, when we did receive our $800 from ACF, we prayed again for God to work in BIG ways. We got a list from the relief coordinator for the Apache Shores and went to work. With the church's money we purchased the following items:

40 backpacks
6 pairs of shoes
10 cases of bottled H20 (no running water in many of these homes)
5 5 gallon bottles of water
Newborn clothing
Baby blankets
9 packages of baby wipes
4 giant boxes of diapers
4 jumbo newborn packs of diapers
8 complete back to school outfits for 2 brothers who had nothing to wear

The trunk of the SUV was loaded!!

Thank you God for financial support. We will continue to love and help these families in the name of Jesus our great Lord!!!

Laura Nickens