The Houston International Seventh-day Adventist Church Women's Ministries group launched our Global Mission Project the first Sabbath in January, 2009. We collected money to buy uniforms for young girls in Kenya. Each uniform cost $12.00, and our target was 30 uniforms for needy girls in a district with ten churches. We collaborated with the Women's Ministries District leader for the project. God blessed the Uniform Mission Project, we quickly had money for not 30 but 35 uniforms and the women continued to give.
Our church is really a site of heaven, where you have over 30 nations represented, and for the first time God has given us a ministry that not only unites us but prepares us for the Kingdom. I am ever so grateful for what God is doing and about to do in our area, I sincerly ask for your prayers for our women, that the Lord will keep us focus and ever realize that it is all for His Kingdom.
Here is the recent response from a Sister in Kenya:
Dear Friends.
I would like to report we had a blessed District Women Day at Nthangathini Seventh-day Adventist church. We were able to distribute the uniforms. I should be frank, women were extremely happy. They all appreciated your church’s gift! You may think this was a small thing, but this went a mile in touching the hearts of many.
I hope this will go down in touching many hearts to drive them towards free giving.
I am sorry I was not able to get a good photographer because the one who has been taking the photographs was away.We were able to buy 30 girls uniforms and because we bargained we had a balance which we bought sanitary towels for the mature girls and pants for all the girls.
Below, please find how we spent the money:
30 uniforms – Kshs.25,860.00
3 cartons of sanitary towels – Kshs.3,340.00
Pants 10 dozens – Kshs. 3,900.00
Transport – Kshs.900.00
Share the photos with your church members and pass our regards to all of them.
Aunt
Jeradine
We make duffle bags with a big pocket on the outside, and a big drawstring around the top to close it. In the pocket goes age and gender appropriate personal care items, ie, combs, brushes, ponytail holders, shampoo, lotions, baby bottles, sippy cups, etc. Inside goes a big soft cuddly stuffed animal. Age and gender appropriate toys, pens, pencils, journals, coloring books, etc. At the very bottom is a homemade quilt 48”x 60”. All ages receive the same size quilt. The ages range from infants to 18 years old. The following is a story of one child’s comment after he received his “Bag of Love”.
After a 9 year-old boy had received his “Bag of Love,” he was told that he had to wait to look inside. Apparently the wait was very long and he could not resist seeing what was in the big pocket. When he pulled out a new toothbrush he said, “Wow, my very own toothbrush, now I don’t have to share!!” What a heart reaching statement!! (We do indeed take so much for granted).
Some of the volunteers in the community are the Presbyterian Church Ladies Sewing Circle, and an 84 year-old lady that square dances every Thursday night!! Also, another lady in Conroe is making quilts for us. Some of the ladies in our church have made quilts as well as a 15 year-old girl that has committed to making 2 infant blankets a month, and a 15 year-old boy that not only picked out the material, but designed and made a quilt that looked like a checker board. Our first duffle bags were made by the seventh and eighth graders from our church school. 
Some of the donations that go into the bags are given to us by the receptionist at our DDS office who gives us a large trash bag full of new stuffed animals every other month, toothpaste and toothbrushes from DDS offices, handmade stuffed animals by a Methodist lady, material, coloring books, crayons and money have come from everywhere. It truly is a blessing to see everybody coming together to help these precious children.
