Bethany Services Annual Picnic 2012

What a beautiful day!

What perfect weather!....for the annual Bethany Services Picnic held at Camp Manitoqua on Saturday, August 18th. Kids enjoyed the jumpee, crafts, decorating cookies, pony rides, balloon creations and a special treat of a caricature artist.  

Our wonderful grill-masters cooked up delicious hot dogs and hamburgers to perfection!  And topped it off with chocolate and vanilla ice cream from Culvers!

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ONE HUNDRED!

There will be 100 happy and smiling Safe Family and Lydia House kids when they receive their backpacks!  Yes, that's right!  The orphan ministry graciously received enough supplies and funds to complete 100 backpacks this year!

Thank You All For Once Again Supporting This Annual Backpack Drive!

What's been happening at HHH lately.....and what is next!

It's time once again to update you on all that God has been doing in HHH's exciting ministry!

1. What an amazing response we have seen on our Nehemiah Wall Project!!  To date the Nehemiah Project has been able to send $44,000 raised to All God's Children for the work being done on the wall.  It is now 3/4 completed!  Praise God as he is providing protection for the Hogar Amor orphanage in Honduras!
2. Orland Church's Preschool had their annual Trikathon at the end of their school year and peddled their way to raising an awesome $2800 for the Nehemiah Project.  Way to go you incredible kids!
3. Our recent Rummage (Garage) Sale raised about $4000 towards our adoption cost assistance portion of HHH's ministry.  Thanks to Tammy H. & Allison L for their vision and work on putting on this sale.
4. We hosted an evening out at Charming Charlies raising $136 from the sales.  But more importantly the night was an opportunity to continue to be able to expose the purpose and awareness of our ministry.

 What are the upcoming HHH events that we'd love to have you join us in? 

1. BACKPACK DRIVE - we will be collecting school supplies during the week of July 29-August 5 for Safe Families. Watch in your local sales papers for great deals to purchase items below:
   
   • Backpacks
   • pink erasers 
   • pens
   • filler paper
   • markers
   • colored pencils,
   • crayons (24pk),
   • calculators 
   • #2 pencils 
   • rulers
   • 2 Pocket folders
   • 2” 3-ring binder
   • wide ruled spiral notebooks
2. BETHANY ADOPTION PICNIC is Saturday, August 18.  An annual celebration/reunion picnic for adoptive families held at Camp Manitoqua in Frankfort.  Volunteer to help at the picnic.
3. ORPHAN SUNDAY will be on October 28th.  There will be guest speakers sharing their stories of adoption or work with children in need.  At noon is the annual international dinner where your taste buds can try different ethnic foods -- always a special treat -- with more stories about the children's lives being changed through our supporters of the HHH ministry.
4. HONDURAS ORPHANAGE TRIP -   Consider a visit to Hogar Amor Orphanage in Honduras.  Annually a group makes a trip to the orphanage in early January to visit the children through our connection with All God's Children.  During the trip a child or two may touch your life too!. As of this posting dates for the trip have not been confirmed yet.

THEY HAVE STARTED BUILDING THE WALL! So thankful to Orland Park Church for their support on the Nehemiah Project. God is SO BIG!!!

Begin Building That Wall!

We have commitments for ALL 113 wall sections around Hogar Amor!  AND...as of today....we have received the funding on 1/2 of those sections!  Let the building of the wall begin!