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February 2015 Newsletter

The lady that was donating the items then showed us the other trailer. It was also a fifty foot trailer full of furniture, all oak, of the same types. We had a couple of weeks to make the arrangements for this load. As you may remember, our finances here at Helping Hands have been decreasing for some time. This was a lot of furniture to move and the trailers are for storage only and not road worthy. That means we had to move all the furniture to another trailer for transportation and this is all in Greensboro, an hour and fifteen minutes away. 

Helping Hands has been working with Jezreel International to supply goods for Israel for the last three years, so, maybe that was an option. I contacted them, they said yes and they would pay for the truck.  My son, Jared and I returned to Greensboro and brought a trailer load of items Helping Hands had collected for shipment to Israel. We loaded our shipment and helped load the oak furniture. We watched the trucker close the trailer doors and prepare to leave. I just heard from my Jezreel contact person, the truck had arrived, been unloaded and is being prepared to ship by container to Israel. “ I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you” (Genesis 12:3). I want to be on the blessing side!

You may ask, why do you not have room in your warehouse?  Helping Hands has rented out part of our warehouse to help pay the rent. The warehouse has 22 pallets built, wrapped, inventoried and ready to ship to Honduras.  Eight of these pallets contain clothing, shoes, and toys that was donated by a ministry in Virginia.  They took over the warehouse from another group.  This new group does not handle humanitarian aid and was looking for someplace to donate the goods.  Someone else paid to have the items delivered to our warehouse.   

Helping Hands is supplying a lot of medical items to local groups here in the area We are getting requests for potty chairs, walkers, automatic blood pressure cuffs, transfer benches and other items. We receive a lot of calls from home health care agencies that are filling needs for their patients that cannot afford some of the items that they need. Helping Hands Ministry is helping to fill that gap.

We have made several trips to the Robbins area to deliver goods for their resale shop.  The money raised from the resale shop is used to help with power bills, heat and other requests all over the county.  That ministry is called Robbins Area Christian Ministry, but they are meeting the needs all over the area, from Eagle Springs to High Falls to the Westmore Community. That is a large area to cover!

Don’t think that just because you do not hear from us that we are doing nothing, we are busy! We also welcome any and all help from labor in the warehouse to financial support. 

The Honduras shipment has been submitted and is awaiting an inspection.  Once the inspection is completed, we will be contacted with a date to move the shipment to Fort Bragg.  The warehouse will be close to empty at that time, but not for long, as God will soon fill it back up once again! 

Helping Hands will be in operation as long as God need us.  And as long as we are here, our call is to help people wherever God leads us and that is exactly what we intend to do.

Tony and Donna Haywood 

February 5, 2015

Helping Hands has been really busy.  This wheel chair was donated to us and picked up about a month ago. It was picked up this week by some health care ladies for one of their patients.  I helped load it in the back of their truck and they delivered it to the patient, at no charge.

Helping Hands was contacted by a business in Greensboro.  They had a lot of furniture they wanted to donate to an organization, but part of the agreement was that it had to be re-donated and not sold. I went to look and determine whether it could be used by us. She had shower curtains, coffee makers, can openers, blenders and some other odds and ends.  These were almost brand new and there was a lot of them. They had all been bagged in clear plastic bags and put in boxes to protect them.  It was all given to Helping Hands but we made an agreement with some other folks and agreed to only take half so they could give some items to a homeless agency in Greensboro. The furniture turned out to be two fifty foot trailer loads of really nice furniture.  One truck load was full of maple furniture which included dressers, occasional tables, dining tables, end tables, chairs, desks, t.v. stands and headboards. Helping Hands picked up the stuff we knew we could use from requests we had gotten in the past. We could not take it all due to the lack of warehouse space.  The same homeless outreach group was contacted and they took the rest of that load. 

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