Mission and Outreach Support Team (MOST)

UPDATE - JUNE 2011:

Mission Trip to Alabama Tornado Victims

Tuesday morning, we started for the Christian Service Mission, a group that was running a warehouse in south Birmingham, and delivered the supplies that Beulah Church sent down. There, we were met by almost 75 volunteers who helped unload the truck and sort the supplies. Some items never made it off the dock area, as there was an assortment of trucks and vans being loaded for the local neighborhoods that had been hardest hit. The donations from Beulah Church will only last 24 hours in the warehouse because the donations are distributed immediately. Since we had the use of the truck for the rest of the day,we then offered to make a delivery to one of the local sites. We began reloading the truck, almost immediately, we recognized boxes that were donated by Beulah and laughed as we reloaded them in the truck. The local site was a school. We were able to meet some of the Red Cross and other volunteers who would help distribute all of the donated items and administer help to the community.
We traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama to return the U-Haul truck and to see vivid examples of the destruction of the Tornado. What a shocking sight! One side of the street was just fine and the other side was flattened. We saw trucks and cars that had been tossed by the wind; trees uprooted, and many houses that were ripped apart. The only heartwarming sight was the verse from a Casting Crowns song that said, “I WILL PRAISE YOU IN THE STORM,” painted on the remains of a house. How hard it is to praise God when these storms happen, but I can speak for theTtruck Team, we saw people praising God for sparing them from this storm and many folks praising God by helping and donating items to these victims.
So Beulah, while we say thanks for the donations for this trip, I challenge us to do more for these victims. At least we can keep praying for the people of Alabama, and more importantly pray that God will lead you to volunteer for the next work trip that our MOST Committee plans for Beulah Church. The time to come listen to the spirit of God to lead you out of your comfort zone and really be the hands of Jesus Christ!

WELLS FOR FRESH, CLEAN WATER

Since 2006, Beulah Church has given generously and enthusiastically to Marian Medical Miison's ministry to provide fresh water to as many villages as possible in Africa. So far we have provided 12,154 people with shallow wells that are free from the bacteria and parasites that kill thousands of people every day (i.e. cholera, giardia, rotavirus, bilharzias and guinea worms)! Since these wells were put into place, not one villager has died of a waterborne disease!

UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2011:

Migowi Has a Bore Hole Well At Last!

For the last several years the Lenten Offering has gone to Marian Medical Mission, a group which has built surface wells all over central and northern Malawi. Beulah’s support has enabled thousands of people to have a fresh, safe well for drinking and cooking. The Mission Outreach Support Team’s (MOST) dream was to provide a good well in the village of Migowi where our sister church is.

A surface well was started in Migowi with our donation but it was now able to be completed because the water table is so low there that they could not dig safely down far enough. At our urging the development committee of Blantyre Synod persevered with the project and were finally able to arrange for a deep well driller to be in Migowi in December. The well is located beside the manse of Migowi CCAP and the big building in the back ground of this picture is the church building itself. The village is thrilled with their new, dependable source of safe water. Thank you people of Beulah!

The carved wooden bucket which can be seen atop the well in the second picture was commissioned and placed by MOST in honor and loving memory of Nancy Sutherland who had a heart for the children of Malawi’s need for safe water.