• After having to postpone it twice due to no containers available, we were able to get a 40 foot container delivered yesterday to load the peanut butter and sponsor gifts, among other things to go to Haiti.
• Greg could use some additional hands today and tomorrow for loading. Contact Dana@Lifeline.org or call 614-794-0108 if you can come help. If we don't get it all done by then Saturday will be a partial work day too. The container people felt badly about having to cancel twice so they are allowing us to keep the container until Monday morning. Special thanks to all who have come to volunteer the past few weeks to load the container, box peanut butter, and much more.
• VBS/Camp Program is well under way; Janet Simms our graphic arts and web master puts together our CD's and DVD presentations and she is putting final touches on the one for this summer. For more information email Greg@Lifeline.org
• Total peanut butter so far is about 10,000 jars but more is flowing in. We ask for it all year long so keep up the good work.
• This year we are conducting our bi-annual Lovelink Child Sponsorship Drive and are seeking Drive Coordinators. If you are interested in representing Lifeline at your church, camp, work place or wherever to get children sponsored, contact Erma@Lifeline.org to get all the info and instructions/Drive Coordinator Packet, etc.
• Finances: Pray that we will not have a summer slump and that our need for May expenses, Haiti and Honduras payroll, etc. will be provided. Our need this month is about $240,000.00. Which is in line with our budget for all ministries. And June is the month we must make an extra month's pay to Honduras staff according to their employment rules there. So we urge prayer that our finances will support the regular and extra needs. God is good and His people are generous.

April 2008

• Ron and Karen Lydick (Karen works with Lifeline; is a stateside representative and oversees our Scholarship Program for the Haitian youth; and she helps with work teams) are the proud grandparents of their first child, born to their daughter and son-in-law John and Laura. A little baby boy weighing in at 7lbs 14 ounces. Congrats to the entire family for a healthy new life.

• Plainfield Christian Church conducting a KAH Food Bagging Session for Lifeline tomorrow/Saturday. The food will go to Haiti. Thanks to Greg at Lifeline for his leadership in this and to Tim Gephart and Karen Lydick for pulling it all together!

• Staff busy preparing for VBS.

• Janet Simms preparing all our newsletters, brochures, annual reports, and Homes For Haiti DVD presentations; we keep her busy.

• Lifeline has a Prayer Warrior Ministry and would love to sign you up and provide more in-depth prayer needs which include a lot of prayers for supporters, supporting churches and their families and friends.

• Upcoming work teams to Haiti and Honduras this summer.

• Keith and Christi Dimbath, Laborlink Coordinators, to Haiti.

February 2008

• Lifeline is gearing up for VBS programs this year.

• Will have a major Child Sponsorship Drive in the U.S. this fall; still have over 5000 students not sponsored.

• Peanut butter drive is in full force right now

• Dates will be set and announced in April for the summer KAH (Kids Food) bagging sessions to provide the food needed to feed Lifeline's school children and nutrition program kiddies.
   

January 2008

Hello from Grand Goave, Haiti and Happy New Year!

We apologize for not writing sooner, but time has gotten away from us and some tasks can get in the way of other tasks! We praise God for your partnership in the Gospel and it is always a joy to sit down and count our blessings as we make effort to convey to you what our sovereign Lord is doing through Lifeline Christian Mission.

As we start a new year we want to thank you for making 2007 a most fruitful and blessed year.  God showered blessings on the work and staff; their efforts to reach the lost for our Lord have not gone unrewarded.  Everywhere we work we are seeing revival, visionary programming, and spiritual blessings so abundant we can't measure them.  More people have come to Christ and the leadership of Lifeline Christian Mission has poured out their hearts and raised their hands in praise and labor for the work of Jesus. 2007 was a good year financially.  We continue to catch up but need to ask for continued, faithful and generous giving if we are to totally recover from several difficult and lean years!  Praise God and thank you!  And pray that things will remain calm in Haiti so the work groups can come.  They are one of the greatest sources of blessings to Lifeline's work and their generous giving helps us to meet our budgeted needs in every county.  This year we hope to have our first El Salvador Work Trip. Pray that it will happen.

Our U.S. staff now holding the fort with many of us in the mission fields this month.  Pray for Dana, Cathi, Greg, Renee, Cheryl and Marilyn as they keep things going in our absence.  Esther DeVoe is doing awesome.  She had a stint put in last week and is recovering well and has been able to go to church!

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August 2007:

• Shipped 2 containers to Haiti loaded with peanut butter, clothing, infant formula, "Kids Food" (Kids Against Hunger food), Christmas gifts to sponsored children, pantry gifts, medical supplies, sewing supplies, etc. 

• "Kids Food" bagging session was a huge success; raised over $3000 to cover cost of shipping this food to Haiti.  Currently, Lifeline is feeding over 6000 people "Kids Food" and is a distributor of food to another 20 missions feeding a total of about 14,000 children.

• Lifeline will participate in the National Missionary Convention’s Kids Food Bagging Session.  Lifeline is the distributing mission for this food, which will be bagged during the teen session of the convention in Cincinnati.  Many missions will benefit from this hands-on fund raising project.

• Preparations are taking place for upcoming Lifeline fund raiser golf outings...details below!

• Lifeline was blessed to be the mission at many VBS’s and camps this year.  All funds donated will go to the ministries that benefit children in Haiti and Honduras.