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First United Methodist Church, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, is organizing mission
opportunities in 2006, with 1, 2, or 3 possible trips to Biloxi, Mississippi.
The church there has a list of 195 houses significantly damaged. Volunteers
are working on a few of them at a time, cleaning, making repairs, etc. We
want to help.
We have planned trips in late March, mid-August, and mid-October.
If we're going to be successful, we need help -
Lots of help.
Want to know what you can do?
* First, foremost, and always, we need your prayers.
Lots of prayers.
* If you have ever thought of being someone's hero, join us. It could happen.
* If this is not a time in your life that you can manage the trip,
but you would like to support us in other ways, we're going to have expenses.
Lots of expenses.
* If you have been graced with health, welfare, income, and a home, and would
like to help those who have lost it all, we are hoping to be able to provide
funds for at least some of the building materials we'll be using for the projects.
* If you have any decent usable tools that you could do without, we'd be happy to take
them, use them, and leave them for the teams that follow us.
** If you want to know what's in it for us...
We can use helping hands, cooks, strong backs, super attitudes, money, and prayer.
Lots of prayer.
** If you want to know what's in it for you...
--- We can offer humor, compassion, and friendship, and an interesting trip!
--- We can promise you will meet new people with whom you will form a permanent bond.
--- We know you will be changed, fundamentally and permanently.
--- We guarantee that you will have a new attitude towards mission, charity,
life, and volunteerism.
--- We're pretty sure any problems you leave here or return to later
will seem somehow diminished in importance, severity, and hopelessness.