When God calls, He provides

God blessed my family last year by sending myself and my youngest son Samuel to India on a mission trip. My sister Brenda and her husband Steve have been serving the wonderful people of India for over 7 years now and we were able to join them in their service. It was wonderful to see them in action as they loved on the children at Kids Home Orphanage, met physical needs of the poor, widows, lepers and lost as we gave out clothes and food, offered free medical treatment and shared the gospel. It gave me such joy to minister as I sang and spoke wherever we visited. This year our 17 year old son, Levi will be joining Samuel and I. We will be leaving around December 15th and plan on spending Christmas with them in India. This will also be our first Christmas with my mom in Heaven. My dad will be traveling to India with my niece Rachel and her sweetheart Michael to join us. We will be helping organize and participate in the Kids Home Christmas celebration before we begin other team ministry activities.

This is Levi

These are my wonderful parents. Miss my mom so much!

There will be 10 on this team this year, including Ruth Ann Rowen and Denise Mendenhall. We plan to teach Bible lessons to the children as well as crafts, games, and singing wherever we minister. Last year I was the guest speaker and singer for a Ladies Tea outreach and we are excited to participate in another of these. My sister said that there was a lot of positive response to this and she is looking forward to organizing another of these for the English speaking ladies in the area. We will also be able to help the local pastors as we support them in their ministries as we come along side them. We will be helping a village pastor with a church building project both financially and physically. Poverty is so prevalent in India and there are so many still who have not given their hearts to Jesus. It is wonderful to have this opportunity to put Matthew 25: 34-40 into action as we minister to those our Heavenly Father holds so dear. We will be having a fund-raising event at First Church of God on Saturday, October 24th at 6 pm. If you would like to join with us in our effort to reach the lost and minister in India, please join us. We will be having a dinner and pie auction. Our goal is to raise $5,000 for the projects the team will be doing, besides travel expenses (approximately $4,000) The Townley family will be sharing both about the ministry as well as sharing their music. Please reserve your seat as a guest for a delicious Indian dinner by calling Lisa at 736-8774. If you would like to donate a pie for the auction please let me know. We already have people volunteering to buy and cook all the food for this event. God is GOOD!! Thank you! Blessings in Christ, Lisa Townley