As many of you may recall, last summer I traveled to Kenya with FUMC Grapevine and taught photography to about 30 AIDS orphans. They took my digital cameras into their homes and documented their living conditions. To help meet their needs alongside FUMC Grapevine, I started a 501c3 corporation called Changing Lenses, Changing Lives. On September 23, I am returning to Kenya to deliver food, sanitary supplies, textbooks and solar lamps. You can be a part of this ministry by helping provide funding for supplies. So far I have raised almost $6,000 for the trip, but another $2,000 is needed to purchase the minimum supplies. Just $15 feeds an entire school of 215 children for a day, $10 buys a menstrual cup that will last a girl 10 YEARS and keep her in school, and $5 buys a textbook. No donation is too small. If you are on Facebook, you can follow my Facebook page to see your money at work during my visit. To donate, visit our page at changinglenseschanginglives.org/donate, or you can give your check or cash to Trudy Hughes. Thanks for your prayers and assistance!

Don't forget to pick up a few extra items when you do your grocery shopping! The GRACE Food Pantry has recently updated their needs list. They are currently low on or out of the following items: juice boxes, snacks, canned soup, condensed milk, ramen noodles, canned fruit, dry beans, evaporated milk, vienna sausages, toothpaste, diapers (size 4,5,6), toilet paper, tissues, hygiene items.  Click here for GRACE's full updated list of needs (pdf). Please bring your donations to the God Can bins outside the church office or in the Sanctuary Foyer/Atrium.