October 2018 Prayer Letter

With profound gratitude to all the men and women who have and continue to serve the Kuwaa Mission! For most of you, I imagine, the pictures you have seen of Liberia and the Kuwaa people are hard to relate to.  The pictures I have posted over the years, show people who continue to live much like they did when I lived there between 1970 and 1980.
The picture to the right is of me on a Kuwaa farm sometime around 1974, although I could imagine a very similar picture being taken today.  The thing that strikes me about this picture and is locked in my memory are their smiles.                             
They worked harder than anyone I have ever seen, but always with a smile. My attitude towards work was formed by the many days spent side by side with them clearing a farm, burning the cleared trees, mudding houses, cutting grass, or chasing birds away from the rice fields. The list goes on.  While they worked, they sang, laughed and engaged in the most animated conversations.  Work was about community.  You came together to work in the morning and finished the day eating as a group around a large bowl of rice.                       
The Kuwaa people continue to live a difficult life, but you will seldom find a picture that isn’t full of smiles.  These people truly appreciate everything that the mission has done for them.  With the resources donated to the Kuwaa Mission, we do our best to provide for their most basic needs.  The joy on their faces is profound even if from the first water from a new well, a new clinic that provides the most basic of health care, or the recent work with Days for Girls to provide women with the most basic feminine hygiene kits. All of the pictures you have seen on our website show their gratitude for what your donations have allowed the mission to do.    
As the webmaster for the Kuwaa Mission website, I have the privilege of showing everyone the fruit of your donations and hard work for my Kuwaa family.  I am personally grateful to each of you for your prayers and for the financial support you continue to provide. 
We ask that you continue to pray for the mission and for the Kuwaa people.  If you don’t already do so, please consider a donation as everything helps and the Kuwaa people appreciate it greatly. 
If you are interested in helping, we are always looking for volunteers!  There are many ways to help.  Are you a website designer, do you enjoy marketing, do you like crafting, sewing (like the Days for Girls projects) or do you want to make a life changing visit to the jungles of Africa to help some of the most genuine and appreciative people you will ever meet!

Please reach out at Webmaster@kuwaamission.org.  with questions or if you want to help.

Your brother in Christ,

Todd Thompson (Mulumba), “The Chiefs Messenger”

Proud son of Rev Richard and Doris Thompson

Your contributions to the Kuwaa Mission are tax-deductible.  We are a 501c3 non-profit organization.  Our tax ID number is 27-5458111

Donations can be given in two ways:  A Check to the mission address or PayPal on our Website:
The Kuwaa Mission c/o Bethany Lutheran Church 1340 8th Street. Slidell, LA 70458

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