tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18101734116488204852024-02-18T22:46:57.179-08:00Being His HandsMimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643866333432222320noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810173411648820485.post-16218328943439124562018-07-23T05:36:00.003-07:002018-07-23T05:43:34.698-07:00Wild Adventures 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>Thank you to everyone who made this field trip possible! </b><br />
<b>The children interacted with and learned about animals, rode roller coasters and water slides,</b><b> and spent good quality time in small groups. </b></div>
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<b>Thank you, thank you, thank you!!</b></div>
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Mimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643866333432222320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810173411648820485.post-86122964982657960272018-07-04T06:49:00.000-07:002018-07-04T06:51:39.326-07:00School Supplies!<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">We are collecting school supplies so that our kids can start the year well-equipped.</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> Every year we drop off supplies before school starts to the children who regularly attend our Bible Clubs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">New Covenant Church on Bemiss Road is our drop-off spot during normal hours or during Sunday morning service. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">If you don’t want to shop (don’t blame you!), you can give by mailing a check to P.O. Box 3903 Valdosta, GA 31604 or online with the "DONATE" button on the left side of your screen! </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I apologize. I haven’t sent out a newsletter all year! Yes, our family had a lot going on (stay tuned for family news!), but our friends need to know what is going on! Please forgive me. Communication is a priority so please check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/hishandsvaldosta) and read all our news and subscribe to our blog.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In May, we wrapped up our 18<sup>th</sup> year of His Hands Bible Club! In addition to our weekly meetings, we went on a field trip to the Cane Maze and had an Easter Egg hunt in the park. In our classrooms, we added books, logic games/puzzles, and Lego sets: Educational resources that many of us take for granted in our homes. They have been a hit! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Next week the kids who had excellent attendance and behavior are going to Wild Adventures!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This year, we began writing our own Bible Club curriculum (thank you, <b>Mrs. Nancy</b>!). Because many of our kids do not read on grade level, we are usually left with choosing between lessons they struggle to follow along with, or lessons that are too baby-ish and unrelatable. Our ultimate goal is to collect all of our lessons and publish them so that other ministries like ours can benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thank you for BEING His Hands!</span></div>
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Mimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643866333432222320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810173411648820485.post-48362998608998604732013-07-11T07:42:00.001-07:002013-07-11T08:44:24.799-07:00Summer Enrichment DayCamp 2013<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
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participate in summer camps and to spend time planning the next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This year we decided to continue our weekly meetings, but to make them a little extra fun!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
weekly summer “Enrichment DayCamp" had an emphasis on fun, educational
activities such as art, dance, and drama— an exposure to activities not
normally available to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also partnered with South Georgia Regional Library’s summer reading program!!</span><br />
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had volunteers teach Science, where the kids blew up Ivory Soap in the
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Depot and Lowe’s donated supplies for Construction, where the kids not
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Mimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643866333432222320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810173411648820485.post-36351435563849413932012-05-30T08:11:00.000-07:002012-05-30T08:18:54.209-07:00Summer Camp!Summer Camp is a BIG DEAL for our kids. They work hard all year to earn the points (through Bible Club attendance and good behavior) to go, and start asking in earnest starting as early as January: "Mrs. Mary, am I going to get to go to camp this year?"<br />
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This year we have 14 teens and 15 kids who have earned a week at a wonderful camp hosted by New Life Church in Lake Park, GA. The leaders of this camp radiate love for our kids, and they do an awesome job making the experience fun AND fruitful. The camp provides a discounted price for our group, and we have raised $645 toward the total cost. We need to raise another $1240 by July 6. God is so faithful to us, and we are confident that the funds will come in!<br />
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If you would like to contribute to our Summer Camp Goal, just $65 will send a deserving child to a week full of love, acceptance, peace, and good teaching from His Word.<br />
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Donations can be given safely online using the link below, or checks can be mailed to: His Hands, PO Box 3903 Valdosta, GA 31604.<br />
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Thank you for Being His Hands! <br />
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Between an adoption, a move, and lots of other things in between, we have definitely missed the mark with communication. Thank God for His grace and mercy, right? We intend to do better from now on to keep our family, friends, and supporters up-to-date with news from the ministry!<br />
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Thank you for your patience!<br />
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Love, MaryMimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643866333432222320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810173411648820485.post-83225083245467437692010-02-24T07:21:00.000-08:002010-02-24T07:21:00.279-08:00A First!Last week I had the priviledge of being invited to a first for His Hands- a wedding! <br />
I've attended many funerals. Funerals for mamas, grandmothers, even children. But never, before now, a wedding!<br />
Kim's children have been attending Bible Club for a couple years. She's a hardworking mom who has gone from being homeless to living in the projects to having a little house on a relatively quiet street. I've always been impressed with her boyfriend, Ellis. He is softspoken and seems kind. When they lived in the projects, he would wait outside next to the curb for the children to come home from Bible Club so that he could walk them into the apartment.<br />
Last week, Ellis walked out the van after I dropped the kids off and shyly announced the news: "Mrs. Mary, me and Kim's gettin' married on Friday." <br />
"Congratualtions!" I cheered as I shook his hand. He just beamed. "I want to come!" He beamed more.<br />
So I went to the courthouse, in the rain, and of course, I took my camera.<br />
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<strong>• 27% if one of these things happen.</strong><br />
<strong>• 42% if two of these things happen.</strong><br />
<strong>• 64% if three of these things happen.</strong><br />
<strong>• But, if none of these things happen, a child’s chance of growing up in poverty is 7%.</strong> <br />
Our teen girls are getting a Biblical perspective on love and sex with Bible lessons from <a href="http://www.mailboxclub.com/">The Mailbox Club</a>. While the lesson content is excellent, the stories are slightly outdated (they refer to boys as "fellows", and talk about "going steady"), and when we went over the first lesson over the nature of true love and the three types of love, it was a disaster. The girls were giggling hysterically and resistant to the material. I was so discouraged I planned to stop using the lessons. I thought for sure that we were completely wasting our time, and was convinced no one was paying attention. Then as we were eating our snack, one of the girls said this to me:<br />
<strong>"Mrs. Mary, when I went home last week, I took that little Bible book home and read it to my boyfriend. And then we read it together, and we said we're gonna have that Agape love right now and wait on that sexual love stuff."</strong><br />
And once again, I was wrong. Thank you, Lord, for reminding me that His Hands' goal is to transform the neighborhoods one child at a time- one beautiful young woman's decision to wait- at a time.Mimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643866333432222320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1810173411648820485.post-67597668878367293122010-01-28T07:48:00.000-08:002010-01-28T07:52:40.445-08:00ChristmasOur His Hands Christmas Project went splendidly this year! Over 200 gift were given to children who may not otherwise have had any gifts! We had the largest number of children on our list this year, and the fastest, most generous response by donors ever! Thank you to everyone who made our Christmas a huge success.<br />
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The week before our party, we were short-staffed, and my dad helped us out at Bible Club on "Little Kid Day". On the bus route on the way to Bible Club, one precocious little girl was fascinated with my dad, and noting his similarity to a certain jolly old man, complete with white beard, glasses, and round belly, began to call him "Santa". She and the other children followed him around like the Pied Piper all day.<br />
Before they left, she pulled me aside, put her hands on her little hips, and with grave concern, informed me: "Mrs. Mary!! Santa thinks he's your <em><strong>daddy</strong></em>!"<br />
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