A Solid-as-a-Brick Reminder

This reminder from Jean Jorgensen:

Seventh Day Baptist young people in the United States, Canada and Australia are raising funds to provide BRICKS FOR MALAWI. They are sponsoring fundraising events, and sacrificing some of their own spending to donate funds.

The Malawi SDBs are making bricks to re-build the maternity ward and three staff houses at the Thembe Medical Clinic. General Secretary Nedd Lozani estimates it will take 400,000 bricks to build these facilities.

They have started the project with 100,000 bricks and need 300,000 more. Each brick figures to cost $.0375(US) or 4 cents. $1 will buy 25 bricks.

On Sabbath evening, March 21st, all of the participating youth will unite for an Ice Cream Social. They will dig in at 4:00 pm PST, 5pm MST, 6pm CST, and 7pm EST. Youth in Australia will join in at 9:00 am-Sunday, Queensland time.

Some groups are planning to invite their church family or community to the social and charge for a scoop of ice cream – to raise more funds for the project. Former Malawi missionary Betty Pearson wrote, “Regarding time, when it's 7:00 EST it would be 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. in Malawi. I wouldn't recommend they have a meeting over there at that time. They're not as much for late night times as youth here. (Nor for ice cream. Mangoes or bananas--or cucumbers--is more their scoop!)”

Please send all donations to SDB Missionary Society, 19 Hillside Ave., Ashaway RI 02804. Write “Bricks for Malawi” on the check memo line. And HAVE FUN!!