Mission Message

Mission

Presbyterian Women of Eastern Virginia

Updated May 19th, 2006

Pw IN miSSION THE PW OF PEVA ARE RAISING MONEY FOR FEED THE CHILDREN OF CONGO MISSION. Barbara Saunders , a member of the Tidewater Quilters Guild, has created a lovely quilt and had given it to the PWP for this Mission. THE PWP are asking for donations; in exchange the donors will have the opportunity to receive the quilt. Cards have been prepared for donors, $1 for one card and $5 for six. On Saturday May 24th it will be announced which cardholder will receive the quilt. If you would like to be part of this mission please contact Evelyn Jones 757 238-2053 Chair of Prayers and Squares Quilters.

The PW of PEVA are assembling and collecting and stock pilling Disaster kits such as Health Kits, Hope in a Box and Baby Kits. These kits are designed to help those in need of any disaster. Church World Services ship these kits all over the world. Please contact Sarah Russell @757-485-2501 for drop off locations.

Baby Kit

6 — cloth diapers
2 — shirts
2 — washcloths
2 — gowns or sleepers
2 — diaper pins
1 — sweater or sweatshirt
2 — receiving blankets (one can be a knitted blanket)

Wrap items inside one of the receiving blankets and secure with diaper pins.

Health Kit
1 — hand towel
1 — washcloth
1 — comb
1 — metal nail file or nail clipper
1 — bar of soap (bath size)
1 — toothbrush
1 — tube of toothpaste (4-7 oz.)
6 — band-aids

Seal all items in a one-gallon plastic bag with a zipper closure.

Clean-up Bucket

1— 5-gallon bucket with sealable lid
5 — scouring pads
7 — sponges, assorted sizes
1 — scrub brush
1 — pkg. cleaning towels (reusable, like Easy Wipes ®)
1 — box dry laundry detergent , 50 oz.
1 — liquid household cleaner (like Lysol ®), 12 oz.
1 — bottle disinfectant dish soap (like Dawn ®), 28 oz.
50 — clothes pins
Clothesline, two 50 ft. or one 100 ft.
1 — pkg. dust masks (like Benchtop ®), 5 count
2 pair — latex gloves
1 pair — work gloves
1 — roll heavy-duty trash bags (33-45 gallon), 24 count
1 — bottle insect repellant (drops or lotion, not aerosol), 6-14 oz.

Package in the 5-gallon bucket with sealable lid.

School Kit
1 — pair of blunt scissors
Pads or notebooks of ruled paper approximately 8-1/2" X 11"
containing 150-200 sheets of paper
1 — 30-centimeter ruler (12")
1 — pencil sharpener
6 — new pencils with erasers
1 — large eraser
12 — sheets colored construction paper
1 — box of 24 crayons
1 — cloth bag, approximately 12" X 14", with cloth handles
and a closure (Velcro, snap, or button)

Pack all items in the cloth bag and secure contents with the closure.

Hope-in-a-Box Kit
1 – Clear plastic shoebox with lid, 6.5 qt.
1 – small stuffed bear
1 – small soft ball
1 – harmonica, or other small musical instrument
1 – 6’x9’ non-spiral bound pad of regular or construction paper (60-100 sheets)
1 – Slinky® (metal or plastic)
1 – yo-yo
1 – 7-foot child’s jump rope
1 – comb
1 – toothbrush
1 – tube of toothpaste (4-7 oz.)
1 – box of 24 crayons
1 – large eraser
6 – new pencils with erasers
1 – pencil sharpener
1 – 30-centimeter ruler (12”)
1 – pair blunt child’s scissors

Place all items inside the plastic shoebox, close lid, and tie securely with ribbon.

Packing and Sending "Gift of the Heart" Kits

	Complete Kits should be packed in boxes with only one type of Kit in each box. However, if you are shipping a small number of different kinds of Kits, they can be combined in one box.
	$2 per kit needs to be taped to the outside of the bag. Alrenatively a check made ou to Church World Service can be taped to the outside of the box for all kits inside.

Clearly mark the outside of the box with the contents.

Include the name and address of the church, group, or individual sending the kits at the top before sealing the box.

Secure the boxes with packing tape.

PRESBYTERIAN WOMEN ARE NEEDED TO TRIM STAMPS.

Used stamps are collected and sold to raise money for Christian Education in the Congo. There is a dire need for women or men to prepare these stamps for shipment to collectors. If you have a few minutes that you could help, please contact Jessica at the Presbytery Office (757-397-7063).

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Congo Feed the Children Program

For more information contact Barbara Newman or Jessica Fitzgerald.

With funds obtained from the Thank Offering of Presbyterian Women in July of 2001, the PW Feed the Children Program was established in the Congo Presbyterian Church Kinshasa (CPK) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the grant proposal, items listed as need to establish the program included such basic things as large saucepans, soup bowls, spoons, chairs, and tables. Funds were also requested for training of women to administer the program and for caretakers to implement the program away from the centers. Needs listed as necessary to feed 100 children for one year included 100 bags of maize @$ 3000, 25 bags of soy @ $500, 50 bags of peanuts at $ 625, 30 bags of beans @ $ 1,000, 20 bags of sugar @ 600, 50 bags of milk @ $ 1,250, Fish @ $1,000 and wheat for making bread at $ 500.

The administrator of the program which is now operating in four feeding centers has sent us an accounting of the use of the funds which in addition to the items listed above include 100 pounds of grasshoppers which we are told are a great cheap source of protein. With funds which are being contributed on a regular basis by many of the PW organizations in the 64 churches of PEVA and especially from individual women in PEVA who have a keen interest in seeing that starving children in CPK receive one good nutritious meal each day, the program is thriving.

The number of children who can be served is dependent on the contributions that continue to be sent for support of this program. The program is the major global mission of Presbyterian Women in PEVA.

For a contribution of $20, one starving child can be feed one meal a day for a period of one month. For $ 240 that same child can be feed for an entire year. We ask that all of you who receive this letter, pray for the continued success of this vital feeding program and consider supporting it with a contribution. If the Spirit leads you to support this program, please send your contribution. The funds are electronically transferred to the Treasurer of CPK, who disburses the funds as needed.

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