SEA CONTAINER PREPARATION

CON-FLU-ENCE
Function: noun
1: a coming together, meeting or gathering at one point
2: the flowing together of two or more streams

Basic Utility Vehicle & FAME Medical Supplies

HSMO Medical Equipment & CISCO Farm Supplies

E91 Clothing Ministry & Moving Bags of Clothes

For the past three weeks, we have been "confluencing" -- starting with the Basic Utility Vehicle that launched the entire vision for the Jubilee Village Project, we have been collaborating with churches, ministries, companies and individuals to collect and gather goods to fill a 43,000 lb. sea container to send to Kager, Kenya.

It has been amazing to see the variety and assortment of items come together at the Kern, Kirtley & Herr warehouse in Zionsville and we are thankful to Denny Cunningham for allowing us to stage all of the materials at his facility. We are also thankful to Bob Boucek and Stefan Radelich at LESEA - Feed The Hungry (South Bend) who are coordinating all of the logistics, permits and paperwork for this shipment. We are waiting to jump over one last hurdle -- gaining an import certificate for the corn meal and canned goods that are a big part of this shipment.

The list of ministry partners and goods we will be shipping is phenomenal:

• A Basic Utility Vehicle that was funded by over 60 different people and made by the Institute for Affordable Transportation (Indianapolis)
• Over 50 bags of gently used clothing and books from the Solomon's Wardrobe Ministry of East 91st Street Christian Church (Indianapolis)
• 2 pallets of medical supplies and equipment from the Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME-Indianapolis)
• 3 pallets of medical supplies and equipment from Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach (Springfield, IL)
• 8 pallets of high-protein canned goods from LESEA-Feed The Hungry (South Bend)
• 8 pallets of high-grade corn products from Prairie Mills / E-Z-Bake (Rochester, IN)
• 28 SolaDyne solar lanterns for the JOY Kitchens Initiative
• 2 pallets of home cannning equipment ordered through and delivered by Summerfield Ace Hardward (Greenfield)
• 2 improved stoves from StoveTec (Oregon)
• 3 pallets of farming supplies from Cisco Seeds (Indianapolis)
• 120 lbs of proprietary materials from the Aqua Clara Foundation (Michigan) for household water purifiers

We ask you to join the Jubilee Village Project in prayer to help us get through the last hurdles and red tape that is associated with getting a shipment of humanitarian goods into Kenya -- we never imagined it would be this hard, but we are faithful this is exactly what God wants us to be doing right now.

Stay tuned to hear when the shipment actually leaves and starts its journey half way across the continent to Kager village.