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In 2008 Baptist Global Response (BGR) asked Kentucky Baptists to participate in a pilot project to collect home care kits for use in caring for AIDS patients in Africa. The project was such a success that BGR is doing this as a national project in 2009 and has asked Kentucky Baptists to participate again.
In 2007 over 1.6 million adults and children died in Sub-Sahara Africa because of aids. At the present 22.5 million children and adults are living with the HIV virus. Because of lack of health care, the limited access to drug treatments, and the continued increase in the spread of HIV, thousands die a very painful and horrible death each year. Often the only care they receive is at home. Kentucky Baptists have been asked by Baptist Global Response to provide home care kits to be used by our IMB missionaries to minister to caregivers and disease victims in three areas that have been ravaged by this horrible disease. The home care kits will be used in ministry in the Baptist Fellowship of Zambia’s palliative care ministry, in the home care ministry of Sanyati Baptist Hospital in Central Zimbabwe, and to a ministry in South Africa in the district with the highest per capita rate of HIV positive victims in the world. These home care kits will bring help and the hope of Christ to some of the world’s most hopeless.
Kentucky WMU and Baptist Men on Mission are working together with Baptist Global Response to meet this tremendous need among the “least of these’ in these three nations in southern Africa. We have arranged collection sites across Kentucky (these are listed on the back of this sheet). We invite you to join us in giving hope to the hopeless. Here are the details:
Need: To mobilize Baptists to collect hundreds of buckets filled with designated home care items for disease-ravaged homes in Africa by July 24.
- Now through July 19: Churches collect buckets of designated items
- July 20-24: Churches take buckets to collection sites
- July 27-31: Disaster Relief Trucks will pick up buckets
Baptist Global Response has researched and worked with partner organizations to determine the best resources to include in the kits. For uniformity in packing and shipping, as well as customs approval in recipient countries, you are asked to follow the project instructions exactly. Each kit will cost about $100. Please note that the packing list has changed from 2008.
For more information, a shopping list, and bucket packing instructions, click here. Please purchase only the specific products listed on the shopping list.
| Drop Off Locations and Details |
Region 1
Association: Blood River
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
47 Aurora Hwy
Hardin
270-437-4203
9-4, Mon. To Fri.
Region 1
Association: Caldwell-Lyon
Drop-Off Location: First Baptist Church
300 W. Main St.
Princeton
270-365-5591
8-4, Mon. To Fri.
Region 1
Association: Graves
Drop-Off Location: First Baptist Church
118 W. South St.
Mayfield
270-247-2992
8:4:30,
Mon. To Fri.
Region 2
Association: Daviess-Mclean
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
1003 Scherm Rd
Owensboro
270-684-2377
8-12, 1-4,
Mon. To Fri.
Region 2
Association: Little Bethel
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
445 Thompson Ave
Madisonville
270-821-6400
8:30-12, 1-4, Mon. To Fri.
Region 3
Association: Warren
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
6448 Scottsville Rd.
Bowling Green
270-842-4160
9-4, Mon. To Fri.
Region 3
Association: Severns Valley
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
500 College St. Rd
Elizabethtown
270-765-4023
8:30-4:30, Mon. To Fri.
Region 4
Association: Long Run
Drop-Off Location: FBC, Highland Park
7321 Billtown Rd
Louisville
502-231-3917
9-5, Mon. To Fri.
Region 5
Association: Crittenden
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
305 N. Main St.
Williamstown
859-824-7755
9-2:30, Mon. To Thurs.
Region 5
Association: Bracken
Drop-Off Location: FBC, Morehead
123 E. Main St.
Morehead
606-784-5768
9-4:30,
Mon. To Fri.
Region 6
Association: Elkhorn
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
1161 Red Mile Road
Lexington
859-254-7747
9-4, Mon. To Fri.
Region 7
Association: Pulaski
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
116 Mill St.
Somerset
606-678-4465
8:30-4:30, Mon. To Fri.
Region 7
Association: Lincoln
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
4160 Hwy 27, South
Stanford
606-365-7123
9-2, Mon. To Fri.
Region 8
Association: Bell Co
Drop-Off Location: FBC, Pineville
405 Kentucky Ave.
Pineville
606-337-2040
9-4, Mon. To Fri.
Region 8
Association: Laurel River
Drop-Off Location: FBC, London
804 W. 5th St.
London
606-864-4194
8:30-5,
Mon. To Fri.
Region 8
Association: Pike
Drop-Off Location: Association Office
79 Ratliff St
Pikeville
606-432-2660
9:30-3:30, Mon., Tues., Thurs. |
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