North American Ministries:
Summer Mission Project (VBS)
2009 Project: Bikes for Boys in Belize
Sometimes we take transportation for granted in the United States. If we need to go to the store or to work, we drive or take a city bus. If we need to go to school, Mom drops us off in the car or we take a bus. Once in awhile we walk somewhere, but how often do we depend on our feet to get us everywhere we need to go?
In many countries, transportation is made possible by your own two feet. Anything else is either not available or too expensive for regular use. Belize is a country like that. While it is true there are many cars and even some bus service in Belize, it is also true that the Friends Boys School (FBS) serves a very poor community for whom most transportation is done on foot. Our FBS students sometimes have to walk over two miles to get to school each day.
The 2009 Summer Mission Project is “Bikes for Boys in Belize.” We hope that purchasing bikes for the boys will not only help them get to FBS, but will be a good source of transportation to high school and any future employment they might have. For $150 a student, we can purchase a bike, helmet, chain, padlock, pump and spare parts. Our goal is to raise $6,000 for 40 bikes by the end of August 2009.
The next time you get in your car or on the bus to go somewhere, think about how things might be different if you had to make the same trip on foot. Let’s give the FBS boys a better future this summer.
Pennies for Postage: Thanks to your eagerness to collect “Pennies for Postage” for the 2008 Summer Mission Project, we received $7,288.69. We were able to ship 1,871 pounds of books to Africa, Belize, Jamaica, Ramallah, Mexico and Cuba. Thank you for your pennies! They went a long way.
For more information, contact FUM, ( 765) 962-7573.
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