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Women on Mission - August 2019

Problem: Global Hunger Solution: Us

We’ve seen them – photos and video clips that allow us to glimpse images representing the world’s hungry. Gaunt faces,     hopeless eyes, distended abdomens, desperate families, and dire conditions wrench our hears. We feel the urge to collect and give food and funds for the hungry. How can we become a part of the solution to the problem of global hunger?

WMU encourages men, women, and children to join together to help the hungry by giving sacrificially to the Global Hunger   Relief Fund.  WMU works cooperatively with partners to provide facts and helpful resources, encourage volunteers, gather donations, distribute funds and necessities, and tell stores of helping the hungry. Learn more about Global Hunger Relief by visiting GlobalHungerRelief.com.

What can we do to address the families, children, and babies suffering from hunger, good insecurity malnutrition, and starvation? First John 3:17-18 states, “If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”

Global Hunger Facts
- In the United States, one in six people faces hunger issues. Good banks serve one in seven people.

- Close to 48.1 million people in the US live in food-insecure households.

- On a global scale, around 795 million people are undernourished.

- Throughout the developing world, 66 million primary school-age children go to school hungry.

- More than 3 million children under five die each year because of poor nutrition.

- One hundred percent of gifts to the Global Hunger Relief Fund helps alleviate hunger needs.

- Administrative and promotional costs are never supported by gifts to Global Hunger Relief. Partnerships with multiple organizations result in those costs being covered by other funds.

Return Hunger banks Sunday, August 4^th.
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Women on Mission will meet Monday, August 5th at 6:00 pm at the church.  All our ladies are invited to be with us.

Spare Change July 2019

This is an update written by Alexa Minor. Our church member who we are sponsoring in the mission field in Australia through Campus Outreach.

Easter in the Bush!

Easter this year was definitely one to remember! One of the girls who is on staff with me is from out west and we were able to go camping in he hometown.  Her dad who is a pastor came out to the camp and talked to us about the meaning of Easter and we were able to go to their church on Sunday. On the way back home from our fun weekend of camping the tire on the car popped and we were stuck out in the boondocks without reception. I panicked for a few seconds realizing that at any moment some Australian animal could attack me.  Thankfully I realized quickly that I was being dramatic. We put the spare on the care and then realized that the spare was also popped. We were stuck in the outback for days without food or water and I started hallucinating. I’m just kidding. We waved down the next person we saw driving . A very kind lady let us use her phone to call up our friend Michelle and her dad to help us. About 2 hours later we were on the road again with a 6 hour drive back home. I am not sure why, but for some reason I am always in the middle of car trouble. Maybe I shouldn’t be driving? Anyway the weekend was lots of fun! Thanking the Lord I am still alive!

A couple of weeks ago we moved to our new house. Thankfully all we had to do was move our stuff up the street. It was an answer to prayer! Here is  our new address: 251 Hawken Drive St. Lucia QLD 4067 Australia.

The last couple of weeks we started two new discussion groups in one of the colleges called Cromwell on two different floors. We were able to share the gospel with them and next week we will talk more about who Jesus is historically. Most of the girls in the group had never heard of gospel before. If you all could be praying that we would be able to build friendships with these girls and that they would be interested in investigating more of who Jesus really is. Thank you for your prayers! Psalm 89:1 “I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.”

Prayer Request:
I have been having a Bible study with a girl named Sienna and she has been investigating more about Christianity. If you could be praying for her to understand Gods love for her and that she would desire eternity.

We have our Mid-Year Getaway coming up in July. If you could be praying for students who are investigating Jesus to come to this event.

Students have finals in a few weeks so if you could be praying for them.

Thursday Nights we go to a college called Grace and make pancakes. Pray for  friendships to form from our time there.

Pray for me as I am reminded of where my true home is. Pray that I would be rooted in Christ and that I would finish the semester out strong with boldness in sharing the gospel.