Spring Update

Jambo Grace Family!

Just when we think we have a plan, God shows us different. There have been many changes lately with our organization, our mission plans, and our goal dates.

I will first off start with our Incorporation. We are still waiting for the Lawyer to finish this process. I have placed a call into his office and am waiting a return call to give me a better idea of exactly where we are at. At the very least, our packet should be complete but we are waiting to hear if it was delivered to the Secretary of State's office yet and the final owed cost.

Secondly, we have had some board officer changes. Our secretary, Shauna, has stepped down for personal reasons and can no longer fulfill her 1 year committment as secretary. We moved Carl Miller from his original Treasurer position into the Secretary officer position for now, but hope to find another Secretary as Carl is more called to an Action position within Fundraising. Andrew remains our Vice President and I as President. We are hoping to welcome Andy Morrison into the Grace Family as our new Treasurer upon his return from Texas where he graduates with a Finance degree next month, May. We are super excited for this possibility because Andy is a very smart and extremely caring young man who has a heart for mission and nonprofit work. May God bring him into GFM and bless us all the more through him.

Lastly, we are in the mission planning mode finally! The most exciting part of GFM!!! We are 99% sure we will be heading to Africa in November, 2009. Our plan is to serve as a team in a Watoto Village located in Kampala, Uganda for a week, doing as they need including building, painting, and serving. Following that, we will travel to Kenya and work 1-2 weeks there in Nairobi and Migori. Those wanting to go on this mission include Andy, Andrew, and myself. We also have a couple other people who are showing interest in missioning for GFM and joining us this year, but can not say either way yet. Though Andrew will probably only be able to be in Kenya a week with us and have to forego work in Uganda, we hope to pull together a mission team of 5 or more for Uganda as it creates more freedom in the dates we can chose to serve there. If we do not have a big enough team, we must serve under GFM as Watoto Global Team Members during specific dates of November 14th - 28th. Please help us pray on building a big enough team or for all dates to work out with the Kenya date plans for Migori's Youth Convention.

Let me go into more detail about Watoto and our hopes for this venture. Watoto Org has a very similar vision as GFM in creating communities for orphans/widows under the name of Christ. In fact, they have already built two communities in Uganda and are working on a third in Gulu, Uganda. For more information on this org visit www.watoto.com. They express desire to network/partner with other churches and organizations to build more of these Watoto model communities in other countries like Kenya for the street kids, orphans, ex-child soldiers, and widows everywhere. We see this as an opportunity to learn more about community building and creating; learn more about their community model and how it fits into our own GFM vision; and see if networking/partnering is something the Lord will lead us into with them. It is very exciting to find another organization already doing what we want to do in a neighboring country to Kenya!

Thank you all for your support and continued committment to our Grace Family!!
In Christ,
Bobbi Jo Miller