never too small....

"If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito." African Proverb


Our Missions focus this year for Vacation Bible School was an organization called BITE BACK. The BITE BACK campaign is mobilizing youth around the country to purchase 300,000 mosquito nets to protect African children from malaria. We thought this was fitting, as our VBS theme was Amazon related. This cause is also near to my heart as malaria is a major public health problem in Ethiopia. Malaria contributes up to 20% of under-five deaths. That is just CRAZY to me-- malaria is PREVENTABLE! BITE BACK says that when a bed net is treated with insecticide it is effective in blocking mosquitoes from transmitting malaria. How effective? The nets can reduce the mortality rate from malaria by 20%.

So - we made it our mission to share this craziness with the kids of Harvest and our visitors. All the kids made a goal of purchasing 50 mosquito nets through BITE BACK- that's $500!! While some had doubts, I knew to not put God in a box- or these kids.
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children"... Matthew 11:25

I am still unsure of the final count, but after the offering on the last night we had raised $578!! We hit our goal and then some! 100% of the money will go to BITE BACK to buy 57 mosquito nets! Praise Jesus! Why do we so often doubt the provision of the Lord?



On the adoption front: we received hard copies of the girls medical forms. We weren't expecting them so it was a nice surprise in a big Fed-ex envelope! Still just waiting on that all important court date. Hopefully that news will come soon...very soon.