Singing Oaks responded with large donations of groceries and over $9,000 during October’s Harvest Sunday. Your food gifts filled up most of our food pantry shelves. The most used food items donated have lasted less than a month. Since Harvest Sunday, I’ve already purchased over $3,000 worth of food.
It seems the only time you hear from me is with a plea for groceries or money. Benevolence assistance always costs us something – 99 % of the people who come to us have financial needs. As mentioned before, the only way we could solve some of these problems would be to “adopt” them. The neediest usually have no family available or willing to assist them.
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The work that is going on via members of Singing Oaks Church continues to amaze me. The following is a brief description of what Mary Mayoli is doing to help orphan children in Kenya.
Mary comes from a semiarid region in Kenya that is drought stricken and lacks clean water. Many of the communities suffer from waterborne diseases, malaria, jigger’s infestation and malnourishment due to poverty. Like much of Africa, HIV/Aids are high on the list of problems faced by the people of Kenya. Many of the orphans left to live on the streets due to the loss of parents from HIV/Aids. If children are lucky, extremely poor grandparents do their best to provide 1 meal a day. Many don’t have grandparents and they don’t survive.
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I often feel sure that a bunch of retired Aubrey folks take turns waiting at the Exxon station in Cross Roads for the sole purpose of timing their 6 mile return into Aubrey at 5:20 pm each day. Their rule is to set their speed control on 45 mph and make their way leisurely home just as the working crowd is returning from work.
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We talk about benevolence in terms of numbers of occurrences. Our benevolence ministry is a blessing to many people. As a church we are affecting many lives in our community. We helped non-members with rent, utilities, emergency expenses and prescription drugs. Because of your generosity, we are known in this community for being a major source of assistance to families in financial crisis.
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Each year we struggle to find ways of encouraging members to help make Harvest Sunday a success. Each year the need for Harvest Sunday is bigger and bigger and every year the Singing Oaks church family gives an abundance of food to help stock our food pantry. Here are a few facts and figures that give an overview of the activities of our food pantry and clothing room for the past 12 months.
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