July trip to Nepal

We are very excited to be able to travel to Nepal tomorrow and help those in need. Calvary Chapel, Greer, SC, Haitian Wesleyan Church in Mauldin, SC, and Christ Our Hope Bible Church, Spokane, WA, as well as caring individuals, have raised $13,000, much of which we are using to fly shipments of rice by helicopter to mountain villages where homes have been destroyed and roads cut off by landslides from the earthquake. This rice will help people survive through the monsoon season until fall when they can harvest the next crop. 

We will also be starting our Family Strengthening Program by visiting individual families to assess their immediate needs and help them make goals for the future and starting our Foster Care Program with the first few foster families coming on board. Some of the funds raised will go to meet the immediate needs of these families helping to lesson the risk of child abandonment and trafficking. We'll be training local staff to continue monitoring these families and adding more over the next months.

Lastly, We will meet with the board members of and lawyer to move forward with the formal registration of New Hope Nepal as a Nepali non-profit.
We would appreciate your prayers for Rebecca as she travels for over 24 hours to get there and again on July 13 and 14 when she returns, as well as for the next two weeks to be fruitful.