The Rural Mission Needs Your Support
and Your Prayers

How can it be? We have never been so busy while at the same time we are struggling to make ends meet. Every day is filled with the joy of young volunteers working and sharing and creating memories and friendships. Every day is also a difficult one for staff as we seek additional resources. We are praying each day for the level of support that will sustain our needs as we do His will among the very needy.

Very young Hispanic children from migrant families are being cared for, encouraged and taught each day so they will be able to lead a better life. Families and individuals with great hardships and crisis in their lives are given hope and compassion. The Mission strives to provide what they need to help themselves, when resources are available. The last three months have seen many, many volunteers, young and older, working and serving to provide decent and safe homes for those lacking what most of us take for granted. The families and elderly residents they are serving are grateful beyond measure. Youth volunteers are experiencing a growth in faith and maturity that will provide direction and purpose for a life in His service and witness. The Mission is truly making a difference! Lives are being changed. In these difficult economic times, we are needed on the rural Sea Islands more than ever before.

The Rural Mission is falling significantly short of the $307,000 needed to operate the Volunteers Housing Workcamp Program for 2008. Economic conditions have caused a reduction in giving. The rising costs of everything from gasoline to insurance to building materials are cutting deeply into what donations and gifts are received. Please keep the Mission and its staff in your prayers. Please give if you are able. A $25-$50 donation from everyone who reads this article on our Homepage will make a huge difference in meeting our needs. A $100-$500 gift from churches, Sunday School classes or volunteer groups who have served with the Mission will be so appreciated. Without giving from those who know and support the Mission, we cannot give to others or provide the mission experience that so many have loved and benefited from.

Please give so we can give, we can teach and we can serve!
Rural Mission, Inc., P.O. Box 235, Johns Island, S.C. 29457