Mar WI Scrapbook, Volume 5, 2008, p. 6

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% €905 X’RHH‘" eâ€"II'G w.m7‘ Mission trip changes lives of Ha1t1ans and locals Sauble group planning return to help orphans BY MARY GDLEM SUN TIMES CORRESPONDENT “Not everyone can go on a missions “9 trip, but everyone an be a sender," Inn Howe says. Howe, a Sauble Beach~area building contractor, was one of 21 people from Sauble Chrisn'an Fellowship who travâ€" elled to Haiti fortwo weeks in January. While there, the Sauble group, along with 37 others finm churcha throughâ€" out southern Ontario, shared their talâ€" . em: and love with people in dire need and living in poverty. Many of them were orphaned children. Howe said what he saw on his first uipmHaitiaytarearlierchangedhim. “We saw some extreme needs â€" i there are 480,000 orphans in Haiti â€" and that kept dwelling on my mind. I knew in my heart we had to do some» thing). ‘ Bylast June, Howe realized if Canadi» ans could supply the materials and labour, ‘We could actually do something tomake a difference for the orphans.” ‘ And so began a six-month effort by Howe, with the support of the congre- gation at Sauble Christian Fellowship, pastor David Oppertshauer and the" community, to fill a 40-foot container with more than $100,000 worth of our} ' su'uction materials, tools, medical and school supplies and small gifts for the ; “mum â€"â€"\ rue/U A brother and sister at an orphanage waltlng to recelve their Chrlstmas please see MISSION, page 33 Box. The group handed out Items to more than 130 klds that day. SUPFUED Worn

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