Lucille and the Girls

Lucille White is a beautiful, godly lady who is respected and loved by our congregation at Crossroads Fellowship. Lucille, who almost blind, and her husband Whitey, who is disabled from a stroke, live in a nearby retirement home. Lucille is part of a Bible study group that meets once a month there, and in June she asked me to come talk to them about our mission trip. When the meeting was over, they asked me to come back once the trip was completed and tell them how it went so I was back early this month, and I put them to work. In the past the ladies have put our sewing kits together so I asked them to take that job on again and took supplies for them to use. Within a week they had made as many kits as they could and were asking for more supplies. They love having a way to be a part of our team even though they can't actually make the trip. We need lots of sewing needles and tiny spools of thread so we can put Lucille and the girls back to work.

It takes so many people to make our trip each summer come together. A group of ladies at a church in Tahlequah have made hundreds of tote bags over the last few years. Other churches across the state pack vitamins, ibuprofen, and acetominophen into tiny bags for the pharmacy. And we have some very good shoppers who are constantly watching for bargains on ball caps, flipflops, and all the other supplies that we need.

We are in the planning stage on our fund-raising fair set for Nov. 2. So far we have a dinner planned and booths where you can purchase everything from garden trellises to car detailing to homemade breads.

With a project like our mission team, there is work for everyone who wants to be involved. One of the jobs that we need the most is to have an army of prayer warriors who lift us up all through the year. We need wisdom and discernment as we plan for the next trip, and those come from God through the prayers of our faithful coworkers.