September 22, 2011
Dear Friends and Family –
I am excited to share with
you that Heather and I have the opportunity to go with our church to Nairobi,
Kenya! The trip will be February 6
– 15, 2012. Heather is now in 7th
grade and has been feeling like the Lord wanted her to go on a missions
trip. She has wanted to go to
Kenya for a while also. We are
both excited that this opportunity has come up for her (and for me too)!
This trip will partner
with CARE for AIDS (http://careforaids.org/). “CARE for AIDS partners with local Kenyan churches to operate life
transforming centers that serve the physical, spiritual, economic, and social
needs of men and women living with HIV/AIDS. Each of these centers operate from
within the local church and serve 80 clients at a time. These 80 men and women
go through a nine-month process of education, training, and support in order to
live full, productive, and healthy lives. “ We will be spending time training and encouraging the Kenyan
Christians who run these centers.
In addition to this blessing, Heather and I will
also get to spend time in Kijabe, Kenya encouraging and assisting some of our
Brainerd Baptist Church missionaries who serve with Africa Inland Missions at
Rift Valley Academy – a school for missionary kids. The cool part is that these
particular missionaries are family – my sister in law and her family – Jon,
Susan, Caroline, and Ben Stocksdale!
This fall, we will need to
raise approximately $2,000 each for a total of around $4,000. Please prayerfully consider a donation
to Brainerd Baptist Church to help with our support needs. All donations are tax-deductible. If you are unable to help financially
(or even if you are), please keep us (and the team) in your
prayers.
You can mail donations to
me or the church but please make your check out to Brainerd Baptist
Church (PO Box 8159, Chattanooga, TN 37414). If you turn in a donation
to the church directly, please put a post-it note that it is for Brooke &
Heather Marsh – Kenya Trip.
If I don’t have your
e-mail address, please send it to me so that I can keep you updated on our
efforts and on the trip.
Thanks for being a part of
the Lord’s work in this way! God
bless you!
In Him,
Brooke & Heather Marsh
Religion
that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after
orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by
the world. – James 1:27
