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Joy

Joy

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Crossville, Tennessee, United States
Hi, I'm Joy! I'm the creator behind Memory Mosaic. I believe every life is a beautiful mosaic, built from moments both ordinary and extraordinary. Thanks for stopping by—I hope you'll find inspiration here to celebrate, preserve, and share your own stories.

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Since we returned to Ecuador, there has been a lot of things happening.  One of the big things we have done at church is introduce the "Love in Action" program.  This is a ministry where we will be seeking ways to express the love of Christ to our community and others.  Here are two of the newest ministries started through our "Love in Action" program.

The Ladies Sunday School class initiated a new out reach ministry directed at blessing new Mom's in our area.  They are making small canvas bags, filling them with some baby gifts, adding a card, saying "Congratulations on your new baby!" and then on the back of the card it says, "this is a gift from Iglesia Biblica Bautista" and has the churches address and phone number.  We have been given an "open door" to hand our gift bags out at the Social Security Hospital, and have had several others show an interest.  We hope that by showing the love of Christ in this way, it may open up the door of opportunity to witness to people that we would never have the chance to witness to.  We are calling this ministry, "Bolsas de bendicion" (Bags of blessings)

Our church has also started a Food Pantry ministry.  We are in the process of signing up "clientes" and receiving donations to put the boxes of "basic necessities" together.  Our date for passing out our first set of boxes is May 2!!  Our church has taken a big step of faith in this and we are excited to see how God works, provides and what doors he opens.  The name of this new ministry is "Bendecidos para Bendecir" (Blessed to Bless)

The basic cost for making the bags for the new Moms, including a small receiving blanket, is $3 a piece.  (This does not include the diapers or other small baby item we hope to add to the bag)

The cost of the boxes for the food pantry is running $25 each.

As you can see, neither of these are small undertakings, just on the economic end, not to mention the hours to just get them off the ground and running.   Our goal in both ministries right now is to reach 25 families, with the desire to grow and add to these numbers.

If you would be interested in helping with either one of these new ministries please email us about this at anztony@gmail.com.

Blessings to you and yours,
Joy


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