Acts 1:8

We received a thank you note and photo from the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan for a recent shipment of items that members of the TCC family donated. This military unit completes about three humanitarian missions a month. They visit an orthopedic clinic, a children’s hospital, a school for girls and women, a girls’ orphanage and refugee camps. At the camps, most of the refugees live in mud huts, tents or buildings made of rubble.

The letter said: “Your donation of clothing, toys, and school supplies are given to local Afghans. During any one visit, we can serve as few as 10 families to as many as 230. Each family receives several large plastic bags filled with clothing socks, shoes, hats, gloves and blankets …”

“It is your generous donations that make these trips possible. As you can see from the pictures (above), our trips put smiles on their faces.”

Thank you to Andrea Gilbert, TCC’s coordinator of the Afghanistan project!

In the photo at right, Tomoka Christian children led by Panda Rodriguez display clothing and supplies they gathered for the Afghan drive. They surprised Andrea with them — and $90 the children gathered through a month of offerings — on a recent Wednesday. Thank you to Panda and the children for showing God's love to those they'll never meet.

Note: Donations of clothing in excellent condition are being accepted at Tomoka Christian for a future shipment to Afghanistan. Please place them in the Afghanistan basket in the Café.

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." Acts 1:8