Do You Know What Love Packages Are ?

Are you aware of the Love Package project?  The District United Methodist  Men have been participating in the project for a couple of years.

The following update by John Sherer tells what the project is about and how it has yielded big results.

 

2013 LOVE PACKAGES MISSION PROJECT UPDATE: By John W.Sherer

 

In 2012 the Miami Valley District United Methodist Men initiated a new mission project for churches in the MVD.

 It's called Love Packages, a Ministry aimed at putting used Christian literature and bibles into the hands of people around the third world.

This is an ecumenical Ministry. Churches throughout the USA are collecting old bibles, used Sunday school, Bible school materials, daily devotionals, Christian books, cassettes, CDs, videos, DVDs, or magazines.

These materials are collected from our church by Wayne Thomas. He then takes all the materials collected from the Miami Valley area churches, transports them to the central processing center in Butler, Illinois where volunteers sort and pack the materials into containers to be shipped overseas. Missionaries around the world can use these to teach God's Word and build His kingdom.

 

The following represents the total distribution of this organization in 2013:

 

Country                                  Pounds                       # Packages

Ghana                                          80,000                                                  4,427

Guatemala                                    80,000                                                   4,582

Haiti                                                 160                                                         8

Honduras                                        2,306                                                       88

India                                           520,000                                                 25,514

Jamaica                                         40,000                                                   1,318

Kazakcstan                                                   39                                                          1

Kenya                                          320,000                                                 15,266

Liberia                                         120,000                                                 5,045

Malawi                                               147                                                        4

Mexico                                                160                                                        10

Nicaragua                                             491                                                       18

Nigeria                                            40,000                                                  1,582

Peru                                                         5                                                          1                                           

Philippines                                      160,000                                                 6,233

South Africa                                    323,000                                                 14,104

Tanzania                                         405,000                                                 16,030

Thailand                                           80,000                                                   3,407

Trinidad                                              40,000                                                   1,865

Mixed                                                       1,800                                                        53

 

Totals                                                    2,213458 or  1,107 tons                    99,564

Volunteers over the year                     2,020

 

Faith Community and the Common Cup Churches donated over 1 ton of materials in 2013.

 

This seems a good time to encourage members (following Christmas) to look through your shelves for books, and materials listed above that you are not using and bring them to  your church and create a box or large tub  marked Love Packages  where your members can drop off these items. Then call Wayne Thomas at 1-513-932-5504  or Leo Scholl, MVDUMM Coordinator at 937-901-0165 for a pick up or for a presentation on this project.

Praise God many people in these third world countries are being saved through these efforts. Remember Proverbs 11:30 "He that wins souls is wise".

John Fristoe, Editor