Raintree Habitat for Humanity has been building modest, affordable homes throughout Henry County since 1991. Because Habitat for Humanity is a Christian mission, there is no better partner than with local churches. Will you help them build the first Apostle Build home? 

For more information about Raintree Habitat for Humanity or the Apostle Build Program, please call Cary Plummer, Executive Director, at 765-521-0723. 

Missions in Action

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Baby Bottle Boomerang. The sum of $572.44 was our total monetary donation plus other baby items.  Please keep in mind that the Pregnancy Care Center keeps a room of baby items available for their clients and will accept donations of new and very gently used items at any time.

Please keep sending cards and letters to our five adopted servicemen.  Remember it is regular postage and nothing special when mailing these cards.  They very much appreciate getting mail and the encouragement that it brings.

Remember to save your aluminum cans.  Max Jessup graciously takes these to be recycled and gives the money to us.  Vickie Richardson will assist with getting cans to Max if you will let her know.  Also, continue to bring in your Campbell’s labels and box tops. 

We have been contacted about participating in the Henry County Habitat for Humanity Apostle Building program. The program is pretty simple: Habitat is building a house starting in the spring where all the financial support and all of the workers will be provided by local churches. This program has been done in other places, but this is the first house Habitat locally that will be built totally in partnership with churches.  Please let us know if you are interested in participating, and we will put you in touch with the director of Habitat.  They need muscle as well as money!

Upcoming projects will again be Angel Worx Christmas in July for seniors, and the Samaritan’s Purse Shoe Box project this fall.  We will be looking at other opportunities for us to assist with the needs of others.  If you know of a need or see a need, please let us know and we will see if we can help.  It does not need to be a large project; maybe an individual need that we can quietly assist with.

Our Missions Committee wants your canceled postage stamps!  A Friends church in Massachusetts gathers canceled stamps and then sells them online to collectors.  The money they raise goes to missions.  So far they have raised $54,000!  You can save all U.S. stamps, except the 39¢ Flag and Statue of Liberty stamps, the 37¢ Flag stamps, the 34¢ Statue of Liberty stamps, or the 37¢ Heron stamps.  International stamps are great, too.  A box will be available on the table in the Welcome Center.  Rita Reeves will be forwarding them to the Friends Church in Massachusetts regularly and would be glad to answer any questions.

Military Missions Project

Friends and family of Anvil troop,
 
That time of the deployment is finally upon us:  the time to start preparing for our soldiers to come home!  We couldn't be more excited to welcome them home, though we aren't quite sure when it will be.
 
We are starting our preparations and have a daunting (yet enjoyable!) task in front of us. Part of our initiative is getting the barracks ready to welcome the soldiers who do not have families here in Germany. This is where you come in! So many of you have asked how to help us, and we finally have a concrete way.  We will be decorating and outfitting the rooms for the soldiers with fresh linens, toiletries, cleaning supplies, snacks, posters, etc. The hardest thing for us is the linens. We have a limited selection and quantity of sheets and towels at our PX, so we are asking friends and family members to donate them. The barracks rooms have twin-sized beds. We will have approximately 50 soldiers returning to the barracks, and any items we get in excess of what we need will be donated to help the efforts within the CAV.
 
We would like for each soldier to have a new set of sheets and pillowcases, bath towels, hand towels and washcloths.  All of these soldiers are men, so please shy away from pinks and purples.