Merry Christmas from FFCC!

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December 22, 2010

Dear ,

Merry Christmas!

We have an urgent need this Christmas for a family here in North County that I wanted to share with you:

A single mom with three kids finds herself laid off and her rental home sold all within weeks. The family has to vacate the day after Christmas. They lost their husband and father three years ago to cancer.

This all happened so quickly and right at Christmas time so they are in dire need of help now! The mom has found another house to rent in the Lakeside area so the kids can stay at their current schools. FFCC is helping her raise the funds to cover her first and last month's rent. The first month and deposit will be around $3200. In addition to the rent, the family will need the following:

Electric washer and dryer

Electric stove - standard cabinet cut-out 29"

Refrigerator-any size

Here's how you can help:

Financial donations to help cover first and last months rent and moving expenses.

Appliance donations listed above.

Labor to help move the family at 10am on Monday 12/27 for a few hours.

The mom has a degree in social work and feels confident she can find a job in January. I know this sounds impossible, but it is not for God. She has faced every challenge in the four years since her husband's death with grace and trust. This is a big one, especially at Christmas when emotions run high with the fourth Christmas without "Daddy". If you can help in some way, please email Diana at words@cox.net . She will be the point person who is coordinating the support for the family. You can make your checks out to "FFCC" and note "Lakeside" in the memo section to ensure that it goes to help cover the family's expenses.

Thank you for your help!

-Phil

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Give Clean Water for Christmas!

A great idea for a Christmas gift this season that can really change peoples' lives and save lives: A $75 water filtration system that can provide clean, safe drinking water for a family in Haiti or Tanzania -- for a lifetime!

Who knew??!

The key to this amazingly simple system is a high-tech filter manufactured with the same technology used in kidney dialysis systems. The 0.1 micron filter can eliminate virtually all bacteria and cysts (including cholera) from the water, and filter over one million gallons, about a lifetime's worth of drinking water.

If you or your family would like to purchase one or more of these systems to donate to families in Haiti, FFCC will install them in homes in the village of Gressier, Haiti, on our upcoming trips in April. If you'd like to donate a system to a family in Tanzania, we'll install it on our trip to Africa in June. Please click here to donate to this special project or make your tax-deductible check out to FFCC and write "clean water" in the memo section. Mail to:

FFCC

12463 Rancho Bernardo Rd., PMB 158

San Diego, CA 92128

You can also purchase the same $75 filtration system for your own family as part of your emergency preparedness kit. We'll even show you how to set it up and use it!

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