Hello New Team Members

Sarah Turner was my counter-part and one of the most influential persons involved with our work here. As you may have read she has made the difficult decision to travel back to the states at herparents request. Sarah will be missed here by locals and the team that worked with her. Please be in pray for her safety and travels as she ventures back to the US and finds what her next step leads. Sarah hopes to contonue to work with our team from the States on the orphanage project through child sponsorship.

Secondly, we are glad to welcome 4 new members to the Outreach Team. They come from the US like all of us to give energy and help to the many thousands, homeless, jobless and devistaed by the tsunami. I would like to intorduce them below.

Mike Balonek (Potsdam, New York)
Amanda Balonek (Potsdam, New York)
Bill Kitchin (Baltimore, Maryland)
Katie Kitchin (Baltimore, Maryland)

These memebrs will be working hands on in many areas of ministry and tsunami relief. You will hear from them on the blog and through photos often as they describe the work, need, and all that is going on. Mike and Amanda may be working with the YMCA on the East coast running some of the YMCA programs and music classes. Please pray for the lord direction with this decision.

Today we built 6 houses and hope to finish 80 by end of the month in the refugee camp of Moratuwa. This project is being led by the evangelical alliance of Sri Lanka on land governmentally owned. The desire of this project is to provide short and long term housing to 400 people / 90 families that are currently living in a school. Moratuwa is a 20 minutes train ride south of our Columbo base.