Letters to Soldiers

Our next project for July is supporting the troops by writing letters to soldiers serving overseas. Michelle Cook has been involved with various care package and letter writing groups for the soldiers and we are going to use "Any Soldier" to write letters and get them into the hands of the troops. We will be collecting letters at the info table at church July 1 (NEXT WEEK) and mail them the first week in July. This is a great project to get the kids involved in, either writing letters or drawing pictures. We will also be sending letters to Mason Hagen at bootcamp so if you'd like to write letters directly to him that is cool too. We (serving liveoak team) will handle all the mailing and forms so we just need letters! Yeah.

If you have any questions contact Blanca or me.

Austin One - woohoo

The AustinOne project Saturday went well. From Liveoak we had Nelson, Chris and I out on the streets of east austin painting house numbers on curbs. Chris and I were on the same team with a girl, Karin. Nelson was part of another curb team and then helped out with another project - tearing up a driveway, I think. The day started out with a worship service and message by the singles pastor at Hyde Park Baptist. Then we headed out to our projects after a short speech by the police about not picking up crack pipes and try not to get shot. :0) It went smoothly once Chris figured out how to use a spray can (pointing it in the right direction helps!) We really don't have to worry about him being an illegal tagger or anything with his spray painting skillz. (kidding)

Here are a few pics from Saturday.

Chris and Karin painting a curb. The black gloves made us look a little more professional (or criminal)

Chris being Chris.

Chris and I (michele) in front of a house ready to paint numbers. My job was to get the right number stencils and put them together, then hold them for Chris to paint.

Nelson helping tear up cement chunks with some boys.

FLMI

We collected boxes and boxes of stuff to send to Zambia this summer with Liz, Renee, Anthony, and Nelson. They will be going in July - just a month away! We packed up all the boxes and crammed them into Liz's car and she zoomed on up to the headquarters in Dallas with them. Liz said beannie babies were exploding out of the top of one box. I am looking forward to hearing in late July on how the trip went and I am sure Nelson will bring us back lots pictures of the kids we helped. Yeah!

Family Legacy's Mission International website is: http://www.legacymissions.org