A Big Thank You Saturday, October 17, 2009

I've had the opportunity to see many of my supporters and share this great info about what they helped me and VoxUnited accomplish while I was in Africa. So I thought I'd share it with everyone.

On the Water Front:

• 14,000 received clean, safe water through well repair & rehabilitation (Mozambique)

• 40 Health & Hygiene instructors were trained and certified (Mozambique)

• 20 Americans were certified to teach Water Filtration Construction (USA)

• 20+ nationals were trained to build water filters (Mozambique)

• 4,000 received clean water through new well instillation (Mozambique)

• Pumps have been purchased and 10,000 will receive water through new well instillation in the next couple months.

On the Business Venture Front:

• 60+ children have/ are being fed via a poultry project (Swaziland)

• 30+ people have/ are being impacted by a Sewing Micro Business (South Africa)

On the Education Front:

• 600+ children received literacy and leadership development training (South Africa)

• 41 children received Vox Tuition Scholarships, books, shoes & uniforms (South Africa)

• 100 individuals received computer skills training (South Africa)

• 2000 students received HIV/AIDS prevention education (South Africa)

Thank you again!

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As You Jump Into Fall... Thursday, October 01, 2009

Consider this. I read this from C.H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening via E-Sword (A definite).

October 1

Morning
“Pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.”
- Son_7:13
The spouse desires to give to Jesus all that she produces. Our heart has “all manner of pleasant fruits,” both “old and new,” and they are laid up for our Beloved. At this rich autumnal season of fruit, let us survey our stores. We have new fruits. We desire to feel new life, new joy, new gratitude; we wish to make new resolves and carry them out by new labours; our heart blossoms with new prayers, and our soul is pledging herself to new efforts. But we have some old fruits too. There is our first love: a choice fruit that! and Jesus delights in it. There is our first faith: that simple faith by which, having nothing, we became possessors of all things. There is our joy when first we knew the Lord: let us revive it. We have our old remembrances of the promises. How faithful has God been! In sickness, how softly did he make our bed! In deep waters, how placidly did he buoy us up! In the flaming furnace, how graciously did he deliver us. Old fruits, indeed! We have many of them, for his mercies have been more than the hairs of our head. Old sins we must regret, but then we have had repentances which he has given us, by which we have wept our way to the cross, and learned the merit of his blood. We have fruits, this morning, both new and old; but here is the point-they are all laid up for Jesus. Truly, those are the best and most acceptable services in which Jesus is the solitary aim of the soul, and his glory, without any admixture whatever, the end of all our efforts. Let our many fruits be laid up only for our Beloved; let us display them when he is with us, and not hold them up before the gaze of men. Jesus, we will turn the key in our garden door, and none shall enter to rob thee of one good fruit from the soil which thou hast watered with thy bloody sweat. Our all shall be thine, thine only, O Jesus, our Beloved!



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