Scholarship Program for "NEW HOPE MAHOTAS ADVENTIST SCHOOL"

Americans consider education to be a right that all children are entitled to, but in other countries around the world such as Mozambique, education comes at a cost that countless families are unable to afford. During New Hope’s S.o.S. mission trip to Mozambique in July 2008, we saw what happens to a country whose citizens are uneducated. About 20 years of civil war has left an entire generation illiterate, uneducated and unable to pull themselves out of the extreme poverty and difficulty in which they and their children are now living.

The school that New Hope’s team helped build during the mission trip to Mozambique in July 2008 is now completed and scheduled to open in February 2009! On our last day in Mozambique, we paid one last visit to the school that we helped build. We were disturbed to learn that most of the children in the surrounding neighborhood would not be able to afford the tuition to attend the school that they faithfully watched us build for 2½ weeks. We decided that this could not be! New Hope’s S.o.S. missions board has formed a student scholarship program that will enable us to sponsor students to attend the school.

The Plan: Provide tuition and uniforms to enable needy children to attend the “New Hope Mahotas Adventist School“ in Mahotas, Mozambique.

The Cost: $240.00 per year which includes the cost of a school uniform that is required by schools in Mozambique. Many children are unable to attend school simply because their family cannot afford to pay for the uniform!

What You Get: You will receive a blessing for helping a child receive a Christian education who might otherwise not be educated at all. Just imagine how education can change a child’s future!

How To Give: Your donations will be tax-deductible. We encourage you to pay the $240 up-front if you are able, so that the student is guaranteed coverage for an entire school year and also to reduce administrative costs and tracking. If you prefer a monthly payment plan of $20/month for 12 months, please let us know. Payment options are:

1) Donations may be made at New Hope Church’s website: http://www.lookingforachurch.org/. On the home page, click on “Online Giving” (under “Quick Links” at the bottom) and log in or register as a new user. Designate your gift in the “Mozambique Scholarship” field. You will receive a receipt immediately after donating online.

2) You can also make your donations by checks made payable to “New Hope Adventist Church” and marked “Mozambique Scholarships“. Please click here to request a printable donation form to include with your payment. Mailed or hand-carried donations will receive a receipt at year-end from the church.

You may also make a one-time donation to be used for the scholarship program. This gift will be combined with others to sponsor the largest number of students possible. NO GIFT IS TOO SMALL!

Thank you for considering educating a child in Mozambique. Please feel free to share this program with anyone that you think might be interested. The school has a capacity of 400 students, so there are plenty of children to help!

For stories, pictures and videos of the mission trip, click here and you will see just why we fell in love with the people of Mozambique! If you would like a printable donation form e-mailed to you or if you have any questions for us, please click here.

SHARING OUR PANTRY: "Food on the 15th" NEEDS YOUR HELP THIS WEEK

Please bring your canned and dry goods to New Hope this Saturday to help feed the senior citizen community of Morningside Park Apartments.

After 1st service, we will meet in the youth room (#109 & 110 upstairs) to sort and bag groceries, then take deliver them to the senior citizens a few minutes away from New Hope in Jessup. A potluck picnic is planned for after the food is distributed (see directions below).

This is a great outreach opportunity for our KIDS to be involved in! The seniors love to see the children and their smiling faces, and the kids enjoy the sorting and bagging process as well.

Future dates for this program are July 18th and August 22nd. If you have any questions, call Angie Bernard at 301-854-3889/cell:301-254-0300.

Thanks so much for your commitment to help others, and helping show the face of Christ to the seniors!

Directions to Morningside Park Apartments9950 Guilford Road, Jessup, MD·
Turn left onto Hall Shop Road·
Turn right onto Guilford Road (NOT the same one as our destination)·
Turn left at the light onto Sanner Road/Cedar Lane·
At the next light, turn right onto MD-32 EAST - go 4.1 mi·
Take exit #14B/BROKEN LAND PKWY SOUTH onto BROKEN LAND PKY - go 0.5 mi· Turn left on GUILFORD RD - go 2.6 mi·
Make sure you stay on Guilford Road, as you must make a right turn to stay on Guilford.· Arrive at 9950 GUILFORD RD, JESSUP - building is on the right.
It also says Guilford Senior Center.

Directions to Patapsco Glen Artney Area for potluck picnic after food distribution:

From Morningside Park:
Turn right onto Guilford Road ·
Turn left at the light onto Route 1, North (Washington Blvd)·
Follow Route 1 north through Elkridge and into Baltimore County·
Turn left onto South Street (just past Levering Ave, passing under Route 895). · Turn left into park entrance at River Road ·
Stay on River Road, going under Route 95·
Turn right onto Gun Road ·
Turn left onto Glen Artney Road, which eventually makes a SHARP RIGHT·
Stay to the right, following the road to the right, at the split ·
Shelter #33 is the first one on your left before the restrooms and playground

Sharing our Pantry Summer Program Begins

Hi All,

Thanks for all of your help last summer with our Sharing Our Pantry food deliveries to senior citizens at Morningside Park Apartments in Jessup, Maryland. We are again going to have the pleasure of sorting, bagging and delivering groceries this summer on June 13th, July 18th, and August 22nd.

This Sabbath, June 13th, we will sort, bag and deliver groceries after first service. We do not have the multipurpose room, so we will be doing the sorting and bagging upstairs in the youth room, using the elevators to carry down bags. (Eeek!!) I may see if we can get another room that gives us easier access to cars outside. We should have plenty of food available, and most of the groceries for the diabetics already sorted.

Please let me know if you are available right after delivery for a potluck picnic. (Delivering food to others always makes us hungry!) I will identify a local park, with a gazebo/shelter, that we can use for fellowship. If the weather does not cooperate, we can have potluck at my house. I will send out a map and info later this week to tell you our potluck location.

Thanks so much for your commitment to help others, and helping show the face of Christ to the seniors. Please give me a call at 301-854-3889 or e-mail me if you have any questions or need further info. We will have about 45 bags of groceries to deliver, and should have some grocery store gift cards available,too.

God bless you, and thanks so much for your support,

Angie Bernard

THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS!

2 weeks from today, a group of 17 members and friends of New Hope church leave for the MEDICAL MISSION TRIP TO HAITI (May 21-27)! Based on what we heard about the last group that visited, we expect to see over 900 patients our 4 working days there (we saw that many in 8 days in Mozambique)! One medical team will work out of the orphanage, and another team will go out "on the road" into villages to conduct more clinics.

Many people have asked how they can support the mission trip even though they are not physically able to go to Haiti. Below you will find a list of medications and supplies that are still desperately needed. Thank you in advance for supporting the trip in this way and for helping the sick in Haiti!

PICTURE: Just yesterday, one New Hope family donated all of these meds for the medical clinic!

MEDICATIONS and SUPPLIES STILL NEEDED:

Pediatric and infant versions of Motrin (Ibuprofen) & Tylenol (Acetaminophen)
Pepcid 20mg, 40mg tabs
Anti-fungal cream
Diphenhydramine (Benadryl) 12.5mg liquid and 25mg tabs
Gyne-cream (such as Monostat)
Lice treatment shampoo
Multi Vitamins - Adult and Childrens
Waterless Soap/Anti-bacterial hand gel
Dixie cups
Ziploc bags - snack size

We need many bottles or tubes of each as we will often we give the entire bottle for a treatment regime. Please note that store or generic brands are gladly accepted!

Rx Medications
• Erythromycin 250 tabs (500 tabs)
• Acyclovir 200mg caps (500 caps)
• Acyclovir 200mg/5ml (200ml)
• SMZ-TMP DS 800mg-160mg tab (500 tabs)
• Polymyxin Sulfate/TMP op. soln* (10ml bottle) 5 bottles
• Ranitidine 300mg tab (200 tabs)
• Augmentin 875mg (100 tabs)

Miscellaneous items:
Peanut butter (they say it's like GOLD over there!)
Balls that can be deflated to fit in luggage (soccer, etc)

What do we expect to see in Haiti? To view a video put out by the Eden Garden orphanage where we'll be working, click here.

We solicit your prayers in lifting up of the people of Haiti. The poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti is said to have little hope. As we serve these people, may they see at least a glimpse of the hope that Jesus offers us all!

"MISSY CLEAN"

About a year ago, a girl about 12 years of age, showed up at the gate of the Eden Garden Orphanage (in Haiti) in the middle of the night. She showed severe respiratory distress, and was taken to a doctor that happened to be visiting the orphanage from Tennessee. They had no
equipment to work with, so they just stayed up and tried to keep her comfortable, praying over this little girl all night long. In the morning, they took her to the hospital - "hospital" being a very loose term in Haiti , where they had an X-ray machine with no film. After finally acquiring some film and getting a look at the girl's lungs, the best that the Tennessee doctor could figure is that the little girl had ingested some bleach, which was destroying her lungs from the inside out. The Tennessee Doctor said that if a child had come to them in this condition at the Level One trauma center where he works, they would have given her a 5% chance of survival even with all the technology and state-of-the-art equipment that they had. However, our God is a God of Miracles and He saw fit to heal this child and she began to improve a little more each day! Today, she lives and works at the orphanage and the New Hope team will get a chance to meet this girl, appropriately called "MissyClean", when they are there for the medical mission trip this May.

BERNARDO

Last summer, members of the New Hope S.O.S. Missions team fell in love with the people of Mozambique as they helped build a school, operated medical clinics, drilled water wells and conducted a Vacation Bible School. One boy in particular, Bernardo, touched everyone’s heart as he watched the construction of the school on a daily basis and attended the Vacation Bible School. Bernardo also desperately needed medical attention because parasites had turned his head into a big wound with open sores covering his scalp. Due to his condition, (a sort of modern-day leprosy) Bernardo was an outcast. You could see how the other children treated him differently, and didn’t want to be around him. It was heartbreaking to watch the lack of interaction and to see his head hanging low, as if ashamed.

The needed treatment only cost about $5 for the anti-fungal cream and anti-parasite pill, but his family could not afford the doctor’s visit and prescription. We administered the pill, rubbed the cream on his head and visited his mother to give her the medication so that she could continue treating Bernardo. By the end of our trip, the medicine had already begun to take effect and there was a noticeable change in Bernardo’s disposition, as the other children seemed to be more accepting of him. We saw him smile!

Recently, some New Hope members visited Mozambique and found Bernardo well on the way to complete recovery from the parasites! They also learned that his parents earn about $60 per month and that it is hard to feed the family sometimes. If Bernardo’s family couldn’t pay for medical care, they certainly can’t afford to pay for a quality Christian education. The thought that Bernardo and other children in the neighborhood would not be able to attend the New Hope Adventist School was not acceptable to the New Hope S.O.S. team.

As a result, New Hope has established a scholarship program so that children in Mahotas can obtain a Christian education. For just $20 per month ($240 per year), a child can attend the New Hope Adventist School in Mahotas. We intend for Bernardo to be one of the students. Would you consider sponsoring a child like Bernardo?

For more information on the scholarship program or other S.o.S. activities, e-mail NewHopeSoS@comcast.net

(Bernardo is pictured here with one of the New Hope Mahotas Adventist School teachers during the Jacobs' recent visit to Mahotas, they brought another batch of medicine for Bernardo's head which is healing up nicely!)

HAITI MEDICAL MISSION TRIP MEDICAL SUPPLY DRIVE

Plans for a medical mission trip to Haiti are well underway! Trip costs are airfare + $500 and the deadline to sign up is March 31. If you are interested, please contact us right away as we are close to our trip capacity of 20 people.

Thanks to the generosity of many people, we were able to carry suitcases full of medications and vitamins to help with the medical mission conducted in Mozambique. We would like to appeal to the New Hope community once again for donation of the following items for the medical mission trip to Haiti. We will have a collection box in the foyer at New Hope. Thank you in advance for your giving hearts!

Acetaminophen (Tylenol)-80mg & 160mg liquid or chewables, 325, 500 & 1000mg tabs, Ibuprofen (Motrin)-100mg liquid, 200mg tabs Aspirin 81mg tabsPepcid AC- 20mg, 40mg (tabs)Vitamin A & D Ointment
Triple Antibiotic Ointment
Antifungal cream
Hydrocortisone cream
Gyne-cream (Monostat)
Loratadine (Claritin) 10mg, Non-Drowsy 24 hour
5mg Children's Chewable Tabs, 5mg/5ml Oral Solution
Dyphenhydramine (Benadryl) cream
Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)-12.5mg liquid,25mg tabsLice treatment-cream and shampooMulti-Vitamins-Adult, Prenatal and Childrens
Eye drops (re-wetting drops)
Saline /Afrin Nasal Spray
TUMS tabs, Maalox & Mylanta liquids
Anti-bacterial hand gel
Solarcaine spray
Reading glasses, all strengths (can be found at some dollar stores or on ebay)
Ziploc bags- snack & sandwhich size to take home meds
Dixie cups- for water distribution w/ meds
Note: We need many doses of each item listed, as we'll usually give the entire bottle for a treatment regime.

Mozambique Scholarship Program for the New Hope Mahotas Adventist School

We have been blown away by the support that the school has received! We currently have enough funds to send about 65 kids to the new school - the capacity is 400, so there is still room for more if you'd like to support a child. For $20 a month (or $240 for the 10 month school year), you can give the gift of Christian education and a uniform to a child who may otherwise not get to go to school. Full school year sponsors of $240 or more will receive a little gift from Mozambique (while supplies last). You can donate through online giving at New Hope's website (lookingforachurch.org) or by checks payable to New Hope with "Mozambique Scholarship" in the memo field.

Do you have plans over Memorial Day Weekend?

Medical Mission Outreach to Haiti
May 21-27, 2009

BREAKING NEWS!
New Hope Church is planning a
MEDICAL MISSION TRIP to Haiti!

DATES: Thursday, May 21 through Wednesday, May 27
COST:Approximately $1000 which includes flight, accommodations and meals
AREAS OF OUTREACH:Medical Mission and Lovin' on the kids at the Eden Garden Orphanage
SKILLS NEEDED: Medical training preferred. If you happen to speak French, that would be especially useful!
TRIP CAPACITY: 20 people
If you are interested, please contact us right away as this trip is only a few months away! Dave Wooster
"Sharing our Strength" Missions Ministry

To contact us, please send an e-mail to NewHopeSoS@comcast.net.
To learn more about S.o.S. , visit our website at NewHopeSoS.blogspot.com

Do you have $20?

"BIRTHDAY CLUB" sponsorship option

Did you know that $20 sends a child to our New Hope school in for one month? Give the gift of education in honor of your child’s (or another child’s, or an adult's) birthday and make a tangible difference in the life of a child in Mozambique! You will receive a card from S.o.S. announcing the donation in honor of the birthday that you can give to them.

To sign up, pick up a card from the S.o.S. bulletin board display upstairs in the children's wing at New Hope, or e-mail us at NewHopeSoS@comcast.net.

WINTERHAVEN HOMELESS SHELTER @ NEW HOPE

Pictures by A. Colin Jeffers: Sleeping Quarters, and S.o.S. serving a Cajun dinner to Winterhaven guests.

God showed up marvelously in the past week in the New Hope Community- in more than 150 ways! More than 150 members volunteered their time to be Jesus to the 30 homeless men at New Hope through it’s Winterhaven Homeless Ministry. The primary objective of Winterhaven is based on the Isaiah 58:7 passage: “provide shelter to the poor and homeless and feed them”.

New Hope volunteers spent close to 200 hours in fellowship, serving and sharing meals, watching movies and playing board games with the appreciative guests. Volunteers also took time to converse with many who were eager to share their life experiences and talk about current events, do their laundry and provide transport. On Sunday, January 11, the sun would set on this year’s Winterhaven Homeless Ministry at New Hope Church. The following words, however, to God’s pleasure would forever reverberate through the hallways of New Hope’s campus:
“Thank you for that delicious meal”
“Thank you for the blanket”
“Thank you for providing a place to stay”
“Thank you for listening”
“Thank you for praying with me”

We're sure God was pleased by the work done at New Hope and until we can figure out a way to end homelessness and poverty in our community, let us continue to be His hands and feet to the less fortunate through our ‘Sharing our Pantry’ Ministry and other initiatives. A moment must be taken to thank all of our grace-filled volunteers. Large and small, their acts of kindness wrought upon our guests and church community rich blessings. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

“Because they were hungry, you gave them something to eat. They were thirsty, and you gave them something to drink. They were strangers, and you welcomed them.” Matthew 25:35 (paraphrased)

Article submitted by A. Colin Jeffers, Winterhaven co-coordinator with Paulette Baldwin

WINTERHAVEN at New Hope this week

A note from Paulette Baldwin, coordinator for the WINTERHAVEN homeless men's program taking place at New Hope this week:

Hi All: We are actually doing great on volunteers for meals, etc.

However, we would love donations of packs of men's bath towels, socks and undershirts sizes large or xlarge to be delivered to the church by this Saturday. Thanks for your support!

Thanksgiving Day Dinner for Morningside Park Seniors

Angie Bernard, New Hope liason and coordinator for the "Sharing our Pantry" program reports on the Thanksgiving Day meal that New Hope members served at the Morningside Park Senior Apartments in Jessup:

32 residents served in the dining hall, 6 residents received plates at their doors, 19 people from New Hope either helped cook at the church or serve at Morningside Park (8 of which were youth or younger), 9 people from New Hope donated pies, cakes or cookies

There was more than enough food for everyone and all of the residents took plates of food with them if they wanted. The residents very much enjoyed the food. Our youth did most of the serving, and socialized with the seniors. Everyone worked together to allow us to serve ON TIME and we were cleaned up and finished before 3:00 p.m. Our volunteers all worked together for God's glory!!

S.o.S. November Highlights:

Nov. 15: Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Collection (click here for more info)

Nov. 22: "Festival of Hope" Food Collection (Frozen turkeys for LARS and canned goods) and Sharing our Pantry Thanksgiving Dinner Collection (homemade freezable baked goods, centerpieces, beverages)

Nov. 27: Thanksgiving Day Meal for Seniors provided by S.o.S./Sharing our Pantry at 12:00 at Morningside Park Senior Apartments in Jessup, Md.

Thanksgiving Day Dinner for Seniors

Imagine being all alone on Thanksgiving Day and not having a big family dinner like most of us are accustomed to. Sadly, for many, this is this Thanksgiving Day will be like.

We are asking for food and help in providing Thanksgiving dinner on for a group of about 75 seniors at the Morningside Park Apartments.This is the group that New Hope has been providing food for through the "Sharing our Pantry" program coordinated by Angie Bernard.

We will provide a full turkey dinner with all the fixings, and would like contributions of table centerpieces, beverages, homemade pies, cookies and cakes for the residents. Items that can be frozen like cookies and breads can be brought in to New Hope on Saturday, Nov. 22, but more perishable items such as pies should wait until Wednesday, Nov. 26. Cash donations for purchasing the food are also appreciated.

Angie Bernard will be in the lobby the next two Saturdays if you would like to sign-up for something to contribute to the meal or to get more information. If your family would like to help serve and visit with the seniors on Thanksgiving day, please let her know or e-mail us here.

WINTERHAVEN PROGRAM NEEDS VOLUNTEERS

New Hope will once again be hosting area homeless men in our church through the WINTERHAVEN program. Our week for hosting will be Sunday, Jan 4 - Saturday Jan 10, 2009 and the program will be from approximately 6 pm - 7 am each day.

We are looking for people to serve in the following areas: Transportation, Sign-in/Registration, Meal helpers/servers, Laundry/Linen, Cooks, Night monitors and Overnight monitors.

For more info or to offer your help, please contact: A. Colin Jeffers at acjeffers@gmail.com or Paulette Baldwin at paulette.baldwin@gmail.com.

ANOTHER PIPE LOADING PARTY?

Yes, it's true! In our on-going relationship with the water well drilling projectwe were a part of in Mozambique, we are preparing to send over another sea containerfull of drilling supplies. Local corporations have donated thousands of dollars worth of equipment and materials to help in the cause!

PIPE and PIZZA on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 at 11:00 a.m.:

Come out to the New Hope parking lot to help load the well pipe that will provide clean, safe drinking water to thousandsin Mozambique who do not currently have it.

We will also be accepting donations of school supplies for the New Hope Mahotas school we helped build, as well as gently used clothing, shoes and toys to fill in any extra space we have leftover in the container.

Please bring your items to New Hope on Saturday, November 1 or bring them to the pipe loading party on Sunday,November 2. For more info, e-mail Dave Wooster at newhopesos@comcast.net.

Eden Garden Orphanage Video - pause music player to hear video

HAITI HURRICANE RELIEF

HAITI HURRICANE EMERGENCY:

You have probably heard about the two hurricanes that have devastated Haiti. Charles LeMorzellec and his wife, Gigi, operate Eden Garden Orphanage. New Hope has supported this orphanage and some members visited the orphanage earlier this year.

A bridge linking their town to the nearest town for food was swept away in the floods. They need our help and we want to provide rice and beans for the town as well. On Sept 20, a special offering will be taken up at New Hope.

If you would like to make an online donation to the relief effort, visit: http://www.edenchildren.info/ and click on the PAY PAL button on the left. OR you can mail donations to: Eden Garden Orphanage, 10017 Lauran Place, Nokesville, Virginia 20181