Thank you for the school supply donations you have generously given to help local refugee children be prepared for the coming school year. WE ARE STILL IN NEED OF ABOUT FOURTY BACKPACKS AND SUPPLIES TO FILL THEM! School starts back in two weeks. Because many refugee children didn’t have the blessing of going to school in their desperate country situations, they are very appreciative of the opportunity to even get to go to school and each year are so excited about starting back. One refugee mother said, “If you are educated then you are blessed” and I knew she meant it.

We are delivering the backpacks next Sunday afternoon, July 27th. If you could pick up just one pack of pencils or one backpack or one notebook this alone would tremendously help us to fulfill our need. (We do actually need an assortment of usual school supples. The supply list is on our website in a previous post.) If you can help us sort and pack the backpacks and/or deliver them next Sunday to the inner city refugee children please meet us at The Church at Schilling Farms lobby at 1035 Winchester Blvd., Collierville, TN at 1:30pm. Please be sure to bring your donated items to the church by next Sunday. Your help allows us additional opportunities to example the love of Christ. When we deliver the backpacks we will express to the families that Jesus loves them and it is He who helped us meet this need. For more information check out http://www.ashasrefuge.org or contact Jamie Koch at 901-292-3101 / jamie@ashasrefuge.org or Deborah Eaton at deborah@ashasrefuge.org.
(By the way, Academy Sports in Collierville has great inexpensive but sturdy backpacks and the local store has donated and supported Asha’s Refuge already with their own donation.)