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Compassion Center of Midcoast Maine Newsletter
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Compassionate Ministry
Thanksgiving Blessings
On November 20th,2004 our Nazarene Youth and Compassionate Ministry
volunteers
delivered 28 Thanksgiving food baskets to less fortunate families.
Operation Christmas Child-Drop off location at
the
Brunswick Church of the Nazarene for local churches
of Maine.
From November 15th through 21st, 2004, many churches in Maine prepared shoe
boxes
filled with school supplies, toys, necessity items, candy and hand-written
messages of
encouragement for hurting children who, in many cases, have never before
received
a gift. Volunteers of our church delivered 801 shoeboxes to Sanford, ME
where they
began their journey to children around the world.
  
Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children around the world. U.S. kids,
families, churches,
schools, Scout troops and civic organizations had put together
thousands of shoe
box
gifts to be hand-delivered to children who are suffering from war,
terrorism, disease,
natural
disaster and famine.
How do the shoebox gifts get to their destination? Whatever means necessary -
truck,
boat, plane (including the world's largest aircraft, the Antonov 225 - it's big
enough to
carry the Soviet space shuttle), helicopter, donkey, dog sled, even camel - to
bring
shoe boxes to children in more than 100 countries, including Afghanistan,
Pakistan,
Jordan and Sudan. Learn more. Click on the link below for details.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/home.asp
On December18,2004, some of our Compassionate Ministry volunteers
delivered 11 Holiday baskets to less fortunate families.
Compassion International Disaster Relief Update
December
31, 2004
Compassion has pledged
$375,000 in a major relief initiative to tsunami-stricken Aceh,
Indonesia, identifying and caring for orphaned children and delivering food,
clean water,
medical care and counseling this week to specific families in crisis. Aceh's
death toll from
the weekend quake and tsunami is estimated at more than 100,000 people,
including an
estimated five percent of the 300,000 in Aceh's capital, Banda Aceh.
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