I’m happy to report that the container that I’ve been trying to get over here for longer than I can remember has finally found it’s resting place here on our property. True, it did arrive almost two months behind schedule, but it’s here now and I’m just glad everything made it in one piece. As most of you already know the important item, or items on the container were our 30,000 curriculums for our AIDS prevention program. Since I hadn’t seen the final print of the books yet I didn’t wait too long once we opened the container to break open some boxes to get a look at them. And they looked great! These took so much work I’m so happy for everyone involved that they came out looking so good.

Other items on the container were 2 riding lawnmowers and 2 wave runners. The plan has always been to sell these items for a profit over here to help offset the cost of the container. And just in case anyone was wondering the grand total for shipping everything here and also buying the container was a whopping $13,000. That cost was a bit higher than expected and has put the ministry in kind of pinch so we could really use some prayer for extra finances right about now.

I would also like to send out a personal thank you to Joel Chamberlain for putting up almost $3,000 to buy one of the wave runners that was on the container. It all stemmed from a conversation at Dunkin’ Donuts when we were kicking around ideas on how he could help the ministry financially. It turned into a little business deal that he would put up the cash for the wave runner and once we sold it here we would then reimburse him his upfront cost. This only makes sense since we should be able to double our money when we sell the wave runner here in South Africa. In the end, Joel gets his initial investment back and we hopefully make about $3,000 to $4,000. Thanks again Joel for being willing to help us find creative ways for people to invest in the people of Southern Africa.

Anyone interested in something similar. We’re planning on bringing another container over at the end of the year. Let me know.