Our church celebrated Ingathering this year.  It is an annual celebration of an offering collected to bless a ministry selected by our missions team based on the Lord’s leading.  This year our church purposed to educate the congregation on the work being done by Kindle Orphan Outreach in Malawi, Africa.  When this organization learned of our desire to come along them financially, they itemized a very specific outline of every piece they needed to establish a new section of their ministry geared toward vocational training for young people.  They determined it would take about $14,000 to get it both off the ground and running and to provide operating costs for the first three years.  Our pastor “challenged” us to blow them away and come up with $20,000.  Our collective donations came in at just under $25,000.  This is SO exciting!

We had a bit of a “carnival” atmosphere with face painting and crafts and trying Malawian food.  Then we enjoyed worship in the sanctuary.