New Home for the Peru 2007 trip

Please be advised that from now on if you would like to keep informed about the Peru trip please go to the following link as this blog has been designed just for Peru 2007.

http://2007peru.blogspot.com/index.html

God Bless my Ministry to Peru

March 5, 2007



Dear _________________________________,


Hi! As many of you know that on August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina happened and God then open the doors through the Salvation Army for me to go to Biloxi Mississippi to help out with the after math of this disaster. Ever since then God has laid it heavy upon my heart to explore the opportunities to go on a mission trips to a 3rd world country. It is my belief that every thing happens in Gods world in his time if we get out of his way and allow him to do his work. He will open doors for us when he feels the time is right.

Well I am excited to tell you that God answer pray and has presented a way for me to participate on a short-term mission’s team to Lima, Peru. Cedar Creek Community Church in Cambridge, International Care Facilitators (ICF, a non-denominational care giving agency), and Kids Alive have teamed together to provide this missions opportunity. We will be involved at the Lima Children’s Home, a group home for 40 children and the Manchay Care Center that is expanding their facilities to accommodate many more than their current 70 children into their day care program.

Please feel free to check out my personal blog site for information about the project at the following website
http://alexisbennett1961.blogspot.com/index.html As the project for this year progresses I will blog to keep everyone up to date as to what is happening.

Our scheduled departure is on August 10, 2007. During the 2 weeks in Lima we will have time to minister in a variety of ways with the children and the staff at both centers. Much of our time will be spent in assisting with the construction work at the Manchay Care Center. We are praying there will also be opportunities for me to use many of my other skills as well. Manchay is a very poor community on the outskirts of Lima. This will be a wonderful opportunity to get practical hands-on experience and exposure to the global mission field.

As a short-term missionary with ICF Ministries for this project, I have committed to help raise prayer and financial support for this work. $1,250 is needed for airfare by April 15th, and the remainder, $1750, by July 1st. If you are able to help out financially, please complete the form at the bottom of this letter and send to the address shown. The $3000.00 we raise helps to pay for our airfare, accommodations, food and for the ministry while we are there.

Specifically I am asking for your support of a $50.00 to $100.00 donation but any amount is truly appreciated. For the past few years I have asked your support towards the Relay for Life for the Canadian Cancer Society and this year instead I am asking for your support in helping to support this mission trip for me.

Most of all, I need your prayer support. If you can pray for me, please pray that:
1. I will be able to raise the $3000.00 to go on this mission trip
2. I will be a blessing to the members of my team and to others I contact.
3. I will learn what God has to teach me through this mission’s project.
4. God will grant me good health and safety as I travel
5. God will provide for all my needs.

God Bless you! And thank you for your support.

Alexis C. Bennett

You will receive a receipt for income tax purposes for your donation.

(Please detach this form and submit with your donation for tax receipt)

Alexis Bennett
28 Blenheim Rd
Cambridge, Ontario
N1S 1E6
Your Name:

Address:

Postal Code:

Telephone #:

Donation Amt $:

(If donating by cheque or money order, please make payable to: “ICF Ministries Inc.”)

Fundraiser Name: Alexis Bennett

MY OH MY OH MY------WHAT HAPPENED??????

My Head hurts, my neck, my back, shoulders, knee also hurt, can't understand why!!!!!! Can you???????????

So it was a nice warm Sunny Sunday and I was driving from church to my friends house for a nice Sunday dinner. I was thinking how nice the morning meeting was, how lucky I was to be alive, have a great family and wonderful friends. I was thinking about how nice it would be if spring was here and was going to stay, when I turned around the corner from Crombie onto Middleton and bang before you knew it I had driven into a parked car.



I still am not one hundred percent sure what happened. I truly believe that the sun must have gotten into my eyes and I did not see the car. This was my very first accident and it sure does shake you up. I was taken to the hospital by ambulance to be checked over. They ran a bunch of xrays, put a collar on my neck and checked for spine injury and head injury.

After a few hours at our famous Cambridge Memorial hospital they said I was free to go and that I was not to stay alone for the first 24 hrs in case of head injury. Well by Tuesday my head ache and my aches and pains had not subsided very much so off to emergency I went again. Once again after a few hours they sent me home and told me I should get some massage therapy on my neck and back because of whip lash and also I had a concussion. They said concussions can last for months and hopefully only days and the head ache should start to go away.

I can not believe how wonderful my insurance company has been in helping me out with everything. With in a few hours of reporting the accident they had a rental car here at my home. They authorized immediately for me to get a massage when I told them about this and the massage therapist suggested physio so they immediately approved that as well. I also broke my glasses in the accident and they authorized me to go and get an eye exam and new glasses as well.

Now I am not stupid I realize my insurance will probably go up but if it has to go up they might as well be paying for the things I pay insurance for.

I was also charged in this accident and I should have been cause it clearly was my fault. So when the police officer came to the hospital to see me it did not surprise me at all when he handed me the ticket. I have a wonderful lawyer in the family and he says we will be able to get this reduced in cost and points and that it should not effect my insurance as badly.

I am so thankful to God that this was not more serious and that there was no other people involved and that it was just a car. It is still very disturbing but it could have been far more serious. God is watching over me and helped to keep me safe. I am so grateful for this. My God is an awesome God!

Reflections

Well another year has gone by. What was there that was good for me and what was bad for me? Did I learn any good lessons? Are there things I want to change or keep the same?

One of the lessons I learned at the end of the year as I helped out a friend of mine in his flower shop is that I really can not work a regular scheduled job. I can not work for someone else. I need to be my own boss, set my own hours that work for me. On days when I am not feeling well to have the flexibility to work when I feel up to it. What does this mean for me? Will I ever go back to the workforce who knows? If left up to me the answer to this will always be no.

I learned I enjoy helping others more than I ever thought. I have had the opportunity to help in organizations and committees I never thought I would get the opportunity to and really enjoyed it. I think this year I am going to do more volunteering outside my church world. I am praying and seeing where this will lead me.

We must never take for granted what we have because there is always no matter what someone else far worse off than our selves. Look around us each day and we will notice someone. What can we do to help them today? Lately I see a man around town pushing a shopping cart around saying I need $2.00, handyman, need work. Should we give him that $2.00 or can we offer to see if there are other ways we can help him.

This Christmas my mother was ill with flu like bug. She has had it for just over a month now. She is finally starting to feel better. But you know when there are
family traditions and certain ways to do things and the matriarch of the family is not up to pare and not feeling much like directing or doing it means the rest of the family has to realize it is our turn to step up to the plate and make Christmas happen. It also makes you start to realize that our parents are not getting any younger and maybe it is time for Christmas to move to someone else’s home.




As a child growing up Christmas was always at my grandparents and then all of a sudden one day it was being shared from our house to my uncle and aunt’s house, and eventually just our family at our house and theirs at their house.

So maybe it is just time for it to be shared amongst our selves. After all we already share the vegetables’ and the Christmas pudding mom and me stuff the turkey and pop it in the oven. It is mostly the setting of the table and the decorating that mom worries far too much over. She usually likes to set the table by the first of December, Family joke. And this year the table was missing 6 people as they were at the inlaws. So this year we had 15 at 1 table next year we have 21.

Ok what did I learn over Christmas, the turkey definitely taste far better when you cook it upside down. All the juices drain through the turkey keeping it far moisture than if cooked the right side up. Yes I did put the turkey in the pan upside down, accidentally on my mother’s directions. I asked her if I had it in the right way and she said yes. Now why did I ask because we have done this before, now we are going to make it a tradition as long as I am cooking the turkey?














New Years Resolutions... a topic for another blog

So until then Happy New Years everyone! May this year Bless you all, keep you all in good health or better health than last year