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Helping Hands Ministry will be Twenty years old in June!!  It’s hard to believe Donna and I started this ministry 20 years ago, with the Lord’s direction.  Our focus and what we thought we would be doing has changed a lot. Our first warehouse was a twelve by sixteen wood building that we built on our property that we thought would be plenty big for anything we were going to do. The first donation phone call filled it up! God had other ideas! We started out shipping computers and such to Haiti. Our first large donation was winter socks and gloves. Forty-two hundred dozen pairs of winter socks and I don’t even remember how many gloves. Haiti could not use those, so what were we going to do with this donation. Two weeks later a couple contacted us and told us their church had put them in charge of locating socks for a shipment to Bosnia, and did we know where they might could get some?

We’ve come a long way since then. This cow, named “Flower” by the  children in the End Times Ministry Orphanage in Busia, Kenya was purchased with money sent by Helping Hands. Two weeks ago along came “America”, the calf named by them also. This is a short exerpt from Edwin Agogo who is the Pastor in Charge. “Now the Flower and America has been a blessing. The reports from the ground is that they get 7 liters of milk morning and evening. Fourteen liters in total .The calf uses 2 . The orphans are given 5  and 7 liters are sold.

Phaustine (Edwin’s wife) told me that the children are so healthy and the ones who are HIV positive are even doing better. Remember they could not afford to buy milk because it’s very expensive. When the chicken projects begins the story will even be better. The children now take tea every morning unlike before when they had mostly porridge and tea once a weak.”


The money is there to purchase fifty laying hens and the coup is completed, they are waiting for the supplier of the hens. The eggs will be eaten and sold. Our ultimate goal is for the orphanage to be self-sustaining.  With the eggs, milk and a calf (which can be kept or sold) they should be well on the way.


Our inspection for the next Honduras shipment just happened this weekend. We are awaiting shipping orders to move it to Pope Air Base.  This shipment comes in with 20 skids weighing in about 10,000 pounds. A lot of this shipment will go the Mosquita area of Honduras. Our Missionary, Sandi Burgess, traveled there about a month ago and reported a car ride to the coast, a small plane that landed on a sand strip, a boat ride to get to the area.  Then a motorcycle ride to see the area. She described a very poor area with the housing on stilts because of flooding. There are some houses that are now surrounded by water permanently because of the changes of the land. These people are too poor for a boat and must swim if they wish to go to shore. They survive on fish and lobster caught under and around the home. The hospital is in poor condition with very little supplies but are kept very clean. The hospital has one heart monitor that works, a commercial washing machine that is broken and several other things in need of repair.  All the people in that area need clothing, shoes, walkers and canes. Snake bites is a problem they see a lot of in that area.  A lot of the men are in poor condition from repeatedly diving for lobster to make a living. Some of the diving organizations are providing help and information to these men but the divers have no other way to provide for their families, so they continue until they are paralyzed or worse.


Twenty years have come and gone!  How many people has Helping Hands been able to help? How many hundreds of pounds of supplies have we transported, shipped, picked up and lifted, no way to count? We are not finished as long as there are people in need and there is a little money in our account, we will continue helping. Maybe it’s suppling stuff to Robbins Area Christian Ministries, maybe making walkers, canes, potty chairs, wheel chairs, blood pressure cuffs and other stuff available to support people that help the poor in Moore and surrounding counties. Maybe it’s money to Kenya to help meet the needs of the orphans, or supplies and aid to Honduras for all kinds of needs. Maybe it’s a brand new project we don’t even know about yet.


Twenty more years, I don’t know, only God knows, but I’m available!!


Thank you for believing and supporting us. The Board members, volunteers, Donna and I will continue as long as we are able and have money.

Tony and Donna Haywood 

May 2016 Newsletter