20' Container of Books & Gifts Shipped to Kenya

On Wednesday, November 30, 2005, we shipped a 20 foot shipping container to the Port of Mombasa in Kenya. Our local coordinator will arrange to have the contents moved to Meru when it arrives at the port on January 8, 2006.

The container held 20 pallets of children’s books from an Oklahoma City nonprofit organization, Books for Children of the World. These 18,000 books were purchased with funds donated by our VIM trip supporters. A member of Nichols Hills United Methodist Church paid for the freight costs. Also shipped were 600 books for a preachers’ library at the church, 90 Bibles, 50 children’s religious books, 6 boxes of used Sunday school curriculum, 200 used novels, 450 used children’s books, 325 new children’s books, 150 baby dolls, 50 beanie baby toys, 220 pairs of socks, 230 small coloring books, 1560 pencils, 50 boxes of crayons, 40 children’s book bags, 290 baby blankets, 38 knit baby caps, 200 pairs of newborn’s socks, 4 walkers, 118 sewing patterns, 75 tubs of Play Dough, and 3 cases of Theraflu cold medicine.

Mission team members will present these items to leaders at Kaaga Methodist Church, Meru School for the Mentally Handicapped, Maua Methodist Hospital, and Kaaga School for the Deaf.