Friday, January 8, 2010

Needy families in Liberia blessed this Christmas!

After our fundraiser this past November, the Hearts for Africa team decided to bless some of the needy people in Liberia for Christmas. Chris, our faithful groundworker there, found some of the neediest widowed families and orphans in his community and surprised them with gifts of shoes, blankets, mattresses, cooking oil, spices, rice, chickens, and a few other items which we here in North America would consider common necessities.

As well, each of our sponsored children's families were blessed with rice, oil, cooking bowls and blankets as needed.

And finally, at our fundraiser we had set up a Christmas Angel Tree where people could purchase random items for needy people in Liberia. This was also done this past Christmas and Chris was able to locate many needy recipients for this in his Liberian community.

Attached are photos of all of the above giftings. What a thrill to see the joy on these people's faces as they received these small gifts!

Thank you once again to all of you who so generously donated funds to make this possible for these people who are in such desperate need. Because of your compassionate hearts, you have made such a great difference in their lives this Christmas!

We praise God for enabling us to do this as all glory goes to Him!