Usually there is no set agenda and members bring along their own individual craft activity and work on that, while chatting and enjoying the fellowship of others. Members often use the skills of the group to help with problems and discuss various options for their project to obtain other ideas.

Anyone interested in joining this group can contact Lynette Bucknall (5428 6193) for more details and a roster of meetings for 2009.

Child Sponsorship

As part of our Mission Outreach, we felt it would be a good thing for our church to support a child who had been disadvantaged only because of her birth place.

We were given an 8 year old girl Uwingeneye who lives in Rwanda.

Rwanda is a small landlocked nation in East Africa (1/8 th the size of Victoria) and supports the densest population in continental Africa with over 10 million people, most of whom engage in subsistence agriculture. The life expectancy is 49, and there are over 1000 people per square mile.

Basic Sponsorship would provide Uwingeneye with meals, health care, Christian teaching and education/skills training, but because we have 12 families willing to help his little girl, we are able to provide her with Sponsorship Plus which also gives her other benefits which includes emergency medical, bible literature, parent education and further education.

Our sponsor families have come and gone over the years, but those who have remained faithful to Uwingeneye continue to support her. We started paying $5 each family/month and it only just last June went up to $7/month, not very much in our affluent society, (only 2 cappuccinos/month) but it gives so much in Rwanda.

We get regular letters and photos from her via Compassion telling us of her progress.

Her parents do not enjoy good health so to have the necessities of life looked after for Uwingeneye is a good thing for this family.