Children's Offering-Very Special Cause We Are Supporting

Hello River family and parents of all the amazing children we serve!
I wanted to provide an update on how we contributed our offering collected for the last quarter in 2009. As I shared in a prior email, the children decided it would be great to support our local humane society organization. We were able to give a gift of $50 to the Columbia County Humane Society with the offering money collected the last quarter of 2009. The kids were very excited about this and drew pictures for the animals telling them how much they love them. :-) The humane society was extremely grateful for the contribution!

Since January we have been collecting our offering money for a very special little girl, many of you might know or know of, who lives in Portage. Her name is Morgan Femrite and she was diagnosed with Leukemia right before the school season started. She is 6 years old I believe. She has been through several rounds of very intense chemo treatments and is still battling this disease. We have been praying for her full recovery and strength during the treatments each week and we would greatly appreciate you keeping her and her family in your prayers as well. Her mother is a teacher in Rio and I know her quite well, she has been off of work most of this entire year to be with her daughter. We are continuing our offering collection for Morgan through the month of April and then will provide a check for her family with the total we have collected since January. Right now we have $71.00 in offering money. We sure appreciate your support to further teach God's love and his commandment for all of us to tithe and give our first fruits. The children are excited to participate in their own offering and we have volunteers each week to pray for the offering and then collect the offering. Many of our children made cards for Morgan to give her encouragement, let her know we're praying for her and tell her we love her. It's wonderful to see God working in our children and to see his love shared as we share with local organizations, and in this case a family who needs our support. I wanted to keep you informed and to say thank you for all your support.

God bless,
Karrie