Anita Frederick * Serving with Children’s Relief International * January 2009 Between the caring and the crying. 1 love starting a New Year! Besides being able to box up yesterday's heartaches and discouragements, we're given the gift of new beginnings and untold possibilities... I's also a time when I like to think back on those divine appointments where people and events had an impact on me, One of those was meeting young Olivia in a small African mud hut. I was there as part of, a team, visiting AIDs widows to offer help and encouragement. In the small hut we ‘entered, she was just 2 shadow in the corner, too weak to stand. Her mouth and throat were so filled with sores from the HIV virus that she was unable to eat solid food. I noticed a tear on her cheek. Her only How you can words tome camein a whisper: Doyou haveany milk?” | Suporte see 1 didn't have any milk but I did have a sample pack of, e-Pap, the special nutrition that we give out to AIDS victims. Mixed with water it can be taken asa shake, I left it with her, prayed and then moved on to the next + Send your check made payable to Children’s Relief International. Write Anita in the mema, Areturn envelope needy family. is enclosed. About 10 days later - Iwas back in Chicago by then - + Or gto ChildrensReliet.org someone sent me this picture of Olivia, Do you see ‘and click Donate. My name her? She is walking! When this photo was taken tan be found under she had just walked 2 miles to church, Iwas awed that Missionaries and Stat God had worked it out that I could have that kind of, impact on this woman, Many of you reading this have + Pray forme. since helped me raise almost $17,000 in e-Pap for . people like Olivia, We have bought and sent over two i Gonaions to Chin's Ret Internation. tar deductible tons oft! How many lives do you suppose we have saved? As I enter the new year, I wonder about the value of Contact me! ni lif. Do I really iv for what matters most? This | (708) 288 0085 year the memory of Olivia sad yes. Somehow God is | atitfedeich@sbeglaba.nt using me as a bridge builder, and saying yes to Him made a diference! ‘When we say yes to God, anything is possible! ‘This is why I invite you to partner with me. Whatever our: economic situation, compared to the Olivias of this world we have so much to be thankful for! When we give, we gain freedom from what we think we need and become part of God's rescue plan! Ifyou will partner with me, we will build more bridges to and for the poor. We will save yet more lives. + we will build more bridges to the poor. DoNDO TPT PTI TCHILDREWS RELIEF | 0. 8012470 + Rockwall, Texas 75087 INTERNATIONAL 800 570 2217 childrensrelief.org