Three little girls in need of clothes.

Hello everyone,

A man that my husband works with knows a family that has taken three little girls in for foster care due to many types of abuse.  The family that has taken these girls in fpr care don't have a lot of money and these girls had nothing when they were picked up.  If you have or know of anyone who has some girls clothes they would like to pass down, it would be a big blessing to this family.  They need clothes for school and play in sizes 5, 7 and 10.  Anyone who can help this family can contact me, Michelle Nyland at (H)  613-9464 or (C) 803-507-2055 and we can make arrangements to pick these items up. You can also drop them off at the church office marked Need # 49.

If you don't have any donations for this family, please remember that prayer is a powerful thing and they need lots of prayers.

 

Serving him,

Michelle Nyland

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We have a need!

Hello brothers and sisters in Christ,

We had a lady call the church office, they do not attend TNC. This young lady is single and has two small children one is 6 years old and the other is 15 mos. old, her car was stolen and both car seats were in the car at the time.  I know you are thinking, well why would she need car seats if she doesn't have a car to put them in.  This young lady has a job making a very low income, receives no child support and she is having to pay people to pick her up and take her back forth to work and home, she still needs the car seats for when she has to go place with family members or friends and has to take the children.

 

She is asking if we can help her find a car that someone may be able to donate or loan her until she gets her income tax refund and pay them for the car, also if anyone has a couple of car seats that they are willing to donate that would be a blessing.  Her 6 year old can sit in a booster car seat and the 15 month old still has to sit in a (facing forward) high back car seat.

 

I ask that each of you pray and ask God to lead you in a way to help this lady, or if you know of someone who can be of some help please pass this information onto them.  Remember that all these things we do to help others, do them in a way that will glorify our Lord and Savior "Jesus Christ".  If you have any questions or need more information I am the contact person for this need, you can reach me at (H) 613-9464 or (C) 803-507-2055.

 

Serving him,

Michelle Nyland  

 

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The Computer Collection Day is set for Saturday, April 14, from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM at the TNC Office!!!

Computer Collection Day to benefit the Shareware Project

TNC Office Parking Lot
419 W. Martintown Road, North Augusta, SC
Saturday, April 14, 2007
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Shareware Project's Mission: It is our mission to provide personal computers to those that are missing out due to lack of finances or lack of technology savvy.

Computer Needs:
Computers desktop/laptops PC and MAC 300 MHZ and above, Working Monitors 15 inches and above, Keyboards, Mice, Digital cameras, MP3 Players, Hard drives 10gb and above, Power supplies, Video cards, Sound cards, Motherboards, Flash drives, CDRW, DVD rec/player, Custom ATX cases.

The following was written by Freddy Petersen, Founder of the Shareware Project:

Do you remember the time you brought home your first computer? If you were as excited as I was, you can understand a little of why we enjoy helping with this great cause. We are here to give other people that same feeling of empowerment and quality of life that computer technology affords us.

Even though the information age has grown and many people are technologically savvy, there are still a lot of people without personal computers and computer skills to use them. There are many parents who cannot afford computers. Some parents and their children lack the understanding and ability to send an email, create a Word document, surf the internet and millions of other common tasks that can be done on a computer. This puts them at a disadvantage in our society. We will provide them with the computers needed to build those skills.

It is our mission to provide personal computers to those that are missing out due to lack of finances or lack of technology savvy. Our focus is to provide computers and computer skills to disadvantaged seniors, families, children, and teens.
Some senior citizens have a slight technology knowledge gap and we will endeavor to get the computers in their homes and provide basic training for them, by doing this we will help bridge that knowledge gap.

By providing parents with small children computers to learn from home while caring for their children, we will encourage these young people to stay in school and eventually go to college or get a job. If you’re ready to help, please see our list of current needs:

A foreign mission opportunity in our own back yard

Last Saturday a friend of mine named John and I delivered two sofas from a generous donor to two families who just recently moved here from China. Now the cool thing about this was not the fact that we were able to supply them with the needed sofas, but that we got to meet and talk to these very intelligent Chinese researchers. They are here studying at MCG to try to help fight some of the diseases like diabetes and gout that are plaguing the people back in China. As we talked to them it was interesting to hear them comment on how different things are in China versus here in the Augusta area. For example, they commented on how clean the air was here. Over there the factories pollute the air and hide the beautiful clear sky. Another example was the differences with babies. Over in China they count the age of a baby in days and not weeks or months like us. Why in days you ask? Well that is because in China if a baby lives past 100 days, then it has a very good chance of actually living to be an adult. Our health care system is way more advanced than theirs so we just about expect all of our babies to grow up healthy, but it is not that way in China.

Just from these two examples we should appreciate even more the clean air we breath and lofty standard of living we have here versus the standard of living in other places in the world.

If you are interested knowing how you can meet and become a friend, host family, or interact in a variety of ways with these International students in our area, then send Link'd Up and email at LinkdUp@truenorthchurch.com . These students desire so much to interact with Americans so they can improve their language skills, so all of us are qualified to participate with them. This would also be a way of ministering to them and showing them the Love of Christ which may be as foreign to them as our clean air that we take for granted.

Hispanic Ministry Clothing Collection

I just wanted to say how amazing it was to be apart of this outreach project on Saturday. When car after car dropped off bags and boxes full of clothing, I was so proud to say that I am a member of True North Church. Not only were clothes donated, but money and household items were also collected. Watching all of the time and effort that my fellow TNCer's put into this project was truly inspiring. I can only hope that others will be as blessed by the donations as I was by lending a hand. I have no doubt that there will be many more missions just as successful in showing God's love to all of the world.

Katie Czapala

Thank you from the Hispanic Ministry

Hello, I just wanted to say what a great success the collection day was. Our church is full of great clothing and a huge variety! We may have enough for the year! Thank you so much for thinking of this and all you've done to make it happen. I can't wait to see the Migrants faces Sunday evening. Please let everyone know what a blessing they have been to the church. The Migrants come here with nothing, this year they will arrive knowing the Christian people here cared for them. In Mexico, it is hard to find used clothing. When you do find used clothing for sale it is very expensive. For them to receive it for free is a real testimony to our faith. Thank you for making this happen. Blessings - Amanda Israel of the Hispanic Ministry