St. Paul’s Collects Supplies for Zambian Orphanage

Filed Under Mission, Social Ministry by Pastor Meredith

The St. Paul’s mission team participants are heading to Zambia this Spring and Summer with open arms — ready to provide many hugs, attention and love. But we are not going empty-handed….we’ve got 28 suitcases to fill and a long wish list of needed supplies from Jaime Bugaski, St. Paul’s parishioner and Interim Director at the Sons of Thunder Orphanage.

There are 51 children living at the Orphanage, all six years old or younger!

The 27 girls and 24 boys, range in age from little Moses (age 2 months) to Faith (6 3/4 years old). Although Moses is the only baby, there are 6 more children between the ages of 18-23 months. There are 10 two year olds (8 boys, 2 girls), 5 three year olds (2 boys, 3 girls), 10 four year olds (2 boys, 8 girls), 13 five year olds (4 boys, 9 girls) and 6 six year olds (4 boys, 2 girls).

A critical need at the orphanage is for clothes to fit these growing children. In addition to clothing, Jaime’s wish list includes children’s shoes, children’s CDs and DvDs, art supplies, small toys and a wide variety of drug store/pharmaceutical products.

A list of priority items is available by contacting the church office at office@stpaulslutherand.com. Please help us fill our suitcases! In-kind donations can be placed in the Zambia box located in the Portico. Please purchase items from the list below or stop by the Portico this Sunday to grab a “wish list” from the Zambian Mission display.

Zambia Mission Update

Filed Under Mission, News by Daniel Magnolia

St. Paul’s is sending two mission teams to Zambia to the orphanage where parishioner Jaime Bugaski is serving as interim director. You can read Jaime’s blog to learn more about her experiences.

An important part of this trip will be building community among our mission teams through prayer, Bible Study, learning about Zambia and fellowship. The more time that we spend with one another now, the better prepared we will be to live and work as a community in Zambia. That being said, we will be gathering regularly as a large Zambia Team (everyone who is going) and as smaller mission teams (the March/April team and the July team).