Lebanon Reporter

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October 1, 2008

Community sale to benefit mission project

Volunteers are busy preparing for one of the biggest community rummage sales of the year. The event is planned from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at First Community Church, 701 N. Lebanon St. A beans and cornbread lunch will also be available Saturday.

This sale uses donated items to raise funds to ship food and supplies to In the Father’s Hand mission on the north coast of Haiti, a country devastated by four hurricanes in August and September.

Cindy Holmes, mission services coordinator for Lashbrook Family Ministries, which operates the mission in Haiti, said people can still donate items to the sale by dropping them by the church this evening or anytime Thursday before 7 p.m.

“There is plenty to shop from,” Holmes said. “We usually fill the Fellowship Hall and several classrooms at the church and even spill over to the outside. There should be something for everyone.”

The mission in Haiti includes In the Father’s Hand Children’s Home, Grace Children Adoption Home, Grace Chapel Church and Grace Christian School which provides a free education to 250 children from their community in this poorest country in our hemisphere.

It is located in an area particularly hard hit, not just by the hurricanes but by the fact that the road and bridges on the only road leading to their area were washed away in the storms, stopping all overland delivery of food, fuel and other supplies to the entire northwest territory. Minimal food and supplies have been delivered to this area in the last three weeks and starvation is on the rise. Holmes reports that daily there are parents bringing their children to the gates wanting the mission to take them.

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