Update from Matthew Titus on aid to Ukrainian refugees

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More specifics on how funds are currently being used

Update #1 March 12, 2022

We can’t thank you enough for all your generous support. As I was buying 7 shopping carts/truck worth of items and furniture from IKEA yesterday, the cashiers asked me about what all of this was for. We got to talking and they were so glad that this project was happening, a few of them started helping me load all the carts and check-out (that never happens here.) As we continued to talk about how hard this all must be on the Ukrainian families, one cashier broke down crying, then the other one did, and then I did too. By the end, we were hugging each other and looking forward to seeing each other next week when I need to buy furnishings for the other apartments.

We have “adopted” an entire apartment building that was mostly vacant and in need of minor repairs.  These 11 apartments will all be for Ukrainian families to live in. As soon as we have apartments ready, families can move in. YOUR funds are helping to make these repairs, buy furniture and furnishings, and help provide a place for these families. We want to try and make it nice and comfortable for them in the midst of everything horrible going on in their lives. If we can do that just a little, it’s worth it.

If we have enough funds after this building is done, we will look for another one.

Funds are also currently going towards helping support temporary housing facilities for refugees in Moravia and Poland. We are partnering with Josiah Venture at these locations where hundreds (at each location) of refugees keep arriving. These facilities are meant for temporary housing until they can find somewhere else more permanent (like the apartments we are getting ready.)

Reading for March 13, 2022 worship service

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This is my Father’s world, I rest me in the thought …

Let all that I am praise the Lord. O Lord my God, how great you are! You are robed with honor and majesty. 2 You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens; 3 you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind. 4 The winds are your messengers; flames of fire are your servants. 

You placed the world on its foundation so it would never be moved. 6 You clothed the earth with floods of water, water that covered even the mountains. 7 At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away. 8 Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed. 9 Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth. 

You make springs pour water into the ravines, so streams gush down from the mountains. 11 They provide water for all the animals, and the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 The birds nest beside the streams and sing among the branches of the trees. 

You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor. 14 You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth.

(Psalm 104:1–14 NLT)  

Web link if you would like to directly help the Tituses help the Ukrainians

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Hi Everyone,
Here is the link to TEAM if you would like to give money to help Matthew & Sara Titus as they help in the relief effort of the Ukrainian refugees. We at Faith Fellowship Church are going to take a love offering next Sunday (March 13) for this effort. The church is going match the love offering we take.

This link is for those who would like to give now and give directly to this effort.

Pastor Dave

____________________________Answer from Sara Titus ……………..
Hi Pastor Dave, here is the link to the page to help financially directly with what we are doing.
Thank you SO MUCH! God bless you.

give.team.org/fundraiser/3738890

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