Car wash update...

Hello friends,

I just wanted to let you know that due to an unfortunate misunderstanding about city policy regarding car washes, we will not be having a car wash at Clinton and Blackstone this Saturday, the 28th. Sorry about the inconvenience.

However, we will still be blessing the congregants at First Presbyterian Church with car washes (for a $5 donation) from 10:30 am until 1:00 pm this Sunday, the 30th, if you were really looking forward to having your car, bicycle or moped cleaned up.

Thanks,

Sam

We'll be across the street from the church in the Pink House parking lot.

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One man's trash...

Hello Friends,

Thanks again for your support for our mission trip. We're still in the process of pinning down logistics like flights, yellow fever shots, etc., but more exciting things should be coming soon.

Speaking of exciting, my team is going to begin our fundraising in the coming weekends. This weekend, on Saturday May 29th, a crack team of car washing specialists will be waiting eagerly at the intersection of Clinton and Blackstone to wash your car for the low, low (low) price of $5.

Also, on the following weekend--the 5th and 6th of June--we will be hosting a yard sale at my team leader's house. While we would be pleased to have you come and make purchases and in so doing aid our effort to leave this hemisphere, we would be equally pleased by the donation of any yard sale worthy merchandise that you have lying around and have been waiting for the perfect philanthropic opportunity to get rid of (i.e., "One man's trash...").

If you do happen to have anything that you would like to donate to our yard sale, you can contact me via email at samthekelly@yahoo.com, via Facebook, or by simply leaving a comment at the end of this post, and I would be happy to come pick it up--perhaps I would even go as far as Bakersfield for such a blessing.

Thanks again everyone, and I hope to have some more updates soon!

Sam

Support your local missionary...

Dear Friends and Family,

I have been given an opportunity this summer to serve with a mission team made up of students from Fresno Pacific University and other locations around the country at Guardería Samuelito, a Mennonite daycare in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

On July 15th, a team of FPU students and I will be flying to Santa Cruz for a weeklong study tour hosted by the Mennonite Central Committee before joining the rest of our mission team for two weeks of service at Samuelito. While there, we will be staying with host families from the local Mennonite church and serving the church in their areas of need, which may include service at the daycare, a local orphanage and a tutoring program known as “The Project.”

This opportunity is coming at the end of my second year as a student at Fresno Pacific. I am currently double majoring in the fields of English and Biblical Studies, with some uncertainty remaining about my plans after (if the Lord wills it) I graduate in 2012. In the meantime, I am seeing more and more the need to be purposeful about ministry and living a life of extroverted faith, and hope that this trip will take me a step in that direction.

I am writing to ask you for your support as my team and I prepare to travel to Bolivia. I would like to ask you especially for your prayers. While I have been on several mission trips before, this will be the longest and certainly the most distant one I have experienced—and the same is certainly true for many of my teammates. Please pray:

• For wisdom for our leaders both in preparation for and during the trip;
• For safety as we travel and for excellent health in a foreign environment;
• For unity among our team members through three weeks of close contact;
• For confident humility and spiritual energy in our service to God and the Bolivian church;
• For the opportunity for us to encounter God powerfully in Bolivia.

Thank you so much for your prayer and support, and I hope to have good news to report soon about what God is doing in Bolivia.

In Christ,

Samuel Kelly