Dear Friends:

Thank you for your loving support! It is so good to have you with us as part of our team.  This month we have been blessed to have a wonderful work group from Missouri State University who helped us with repairs to the office building and an RV that will serve as a home for returning long-term crew. The team organized incoming donations, improved the greenhouse, and helped with groundskeeping, including providing a new (to us) riding mower to lighten our work. We were doubly blessed to receive a donation of a second beautiful lawn mower, an awesome Dixie Chopper, from Pastor Dwayne Daigle of Church of the Promise in Iowa, Louisiana.

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Our home base, Port Mercy is so valuable to our operations, providing safe moorage for our ships, offices, warehousing for cargo and equipment, and housing for our team. These past two years we have been slowly restoring the damage caused by a brutal hurricane season in 2020. This month, we were able to gravel the main road,  organize several containers, and carry on with routine maintenance and repairs…

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We have been so blessed this month with donations of food and household goods that we have shared with community organizations. We are able to regularly provide food and supplies to local ministries helping the homeless and elderly and giving to several church food distributions giving aid to families in need of assistance.

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In the Middle East, an opportunity has opened to work in Bethlehem, the very special city of Jesus’ birth. We are still determining all the details but are planning to invite church teams in to join us in helping…

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This past month we have collected wonderful food from grocery stores and have grown produce in The Garden at Port Mercy. In addition to feeding our wonderful team, this food has been able to provide for ministries…

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As we look back over the accomplishments of this year, we are so grateful to God and to our crew and support team for all that was accomplished. We were able to provide weekly food to several churches and organizations… 

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Thank you for your continued love and support to Friend Ships. You are an integral part of our operations. These are exciting times to be serving the Lord! As my dearest friend and mentor, Agnes Numer would say, “Put on your running shoes. We have things to do, places to see, and children to feed!”

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Friend Ships has started to provide relief to victims of Hurricane Ian in Florida. There is widespread need and although the government provides aid, there are generally devastated but overlooked areas in need. We look for churches to help those who are working in these areas. On September 29th, as the hurricane was still passing, we loaded out a trailer of hygiene supplies for police officers from Iowa, Louisiana who were headed out to help fellow officers in Florida.

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As food prices are soaring, a long-time vision is unfolding here at Friend Ships to grow fresh vegetables for our local poor and needy and Friend Ships volunteers. We have been blessed with a commercial-size greenhouse to bring the vision to fruition.

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Thank you so much for your continued support.  After completing our fiscal year and as we looked back over what we were able to accomplish in the past 12 months, it was such an encouragement!

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This month we have been blessed to be able to contribute food and other items to several ministries that provide for people in need.

This month we have been blessed to be able to contribute food and other items to several ministries that provide for people in need.