RESCHEDULE!!

Good morning!  Sorry everyone, but due to unforeseen circumstances (broken generator) we are rescheduling the toboggan hot chocolate fundraiser.  It will be held next Saturday same time and location.  In Africa we say TIA when plan change.  Nothing there is predictable and we just roll with it.  So TIC Canada, we just have  to roll with it!

Tobogganing for a cause!

So, February is coming to an end and it has been the coldest one since 1875!  That didn't stop us from hitting the local toboggan hills, selling hot chocolate, meeting great people, and support YFC Liberia's Ebola relief effort.  This Saturday is our last day, we will be at the Mary St. Hill, Picton.  Hope to see you all there!

This was a great week for Liberia!  The President announced that the boarders will be opened for trade.  This is critical for the financial healing of Liberia.  There were also only 2 new cases of Ebola reported this week!  Praise God!  There is still a huge need in the country, not only for those who are still sick, but for those whose have lost loved ones.  Please continue to pray for those in need.

Our YFC Liberia director, Augustine Fredricks, is well.  He is excited about the boarders being opened and he is very excited for us to get over there and start our work.   Augustine loves his country and its people and is such an encouragement to us.  Even during the midst of Ebola and all the death around him, he would call and ask how our family was doing and ask us what we needed prayer for.  I can't wait to be in his country and meet the people he loves.  With the news this week I am optimistic that we are growing closer and closer to that day!  As always, please keep Augustine and our family in your prayers.  

   

February Fundraisers

Hello all, well we are into February now, the Ebola outbreak is slowing down (praise the Lord) but the need is still great.  The Ebola outbreak has made orphans of many children, health authorities say about 2,000 have been accounted for.  There are many children who are living with other family members or simply alone on the streets.  In the capital, Monrovia, there are some of the worst slum communities in all of Africa.  Some with as many as 75,000 people living on a small parcel of land. That makes it very difficult to know the exact number of children in need.  YFC Liberia is working to find these orphans and place them in secure homes and orphanages.  That is why for the month of February YFC Quinte will be collecting toonies and loonies and popping up at local toboggan hill across the area.  We will be in Belleville this Saturday from 12-4 at zwicks park.  We are going to be selling Hot Chocolate to all you tobogganers and freezing our buns off in the process. Come on out and meet Don and I, ask us your questions, and support kids in need.  If your not a Hot Chocolate fan that's fine we will also be collecting donations.  Bring your kids out and have fun!

  

It's been far to long

Good morning all, I need to start today with an apology.  I have not written in a very long time and I'm sorry for that.  I find it hard to not get distracted with my North American life and my silly North American problems.  I have also been worn down and disheartened over the last month over the lack of interest in the third world.  When things like Ebola become "old news".  We can become so desensitized to the images on the news and our interested is so fleeting.  We want the next "best" thing or what ever is more graphic or horrific.  Some of us just want to ignore world problems all together and find happiness in our oblivion.  That is a first world problem, that is our epidemic.  It is the lack of true concern that fleeting moment of shock when you hear of a disaster.  I feel the same sometimes and shamefully, react the same.  I get caught up in the disease of North America.  My life can be so busy and full of things that to me are so important at the time, but in reality are not.  I think we sometimes build up the importance of the mundane to make us feel worthy or important.  Or, we are afraid of admitting the silliness of our less then trivial issues and actually looking at the world.  It is my prayer that our eyes are opened to the world, our ears hearing the suffering, and that we show the love of Jesus through our actions.