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Egbe Hospital Saved My Life

Posted: March 6, 2013 by Patrice Miles in Egbe Hosptial
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Meet Joseph & Grace from Eruku, Nigeria. Eruku is on 9 km from Egbe hospital. Lenny received a phone call from Joseph about a month ago after our article in the Southeast Outlook went live. Joseph immediately told Lenny that Egbe hospital saved his life and he wanted to meet us. We met at Starbucks for almost 2hrs listening to their story and sharing ours. Joseph was a very sick child and practically lived at Egbe. His parents would ride him on a bicycle to the hospital and he says he would not be here today if God hadn’t used Egbe hospital.

Grace won the VISA lottery and was selected to come to Louisville almost 20 years ago. They moved and have raised their children here and visit their family back in Eruku as much as possible. They plan to come home to Eruku in  Decemeber and have invited us to their families home for all the holiday festivities. Grace says we have never seen Christmas celebrations until we have come to Africa.

This testimony encourages Lenny and I in our mission to help the Egbe people. Lenny will be working alongside the Egbe men to disciple them but also to show them how to keep the hospital running so people like Joseph can continue to be helped. Grace’s mother who is 83 years old still comes monthly to Egbe to get her regular check ups. The kids and I look forward to meeting her and many other hospital patients. We plan to visit with them regularly evangelizing, encouraging and helping anyway we can. We are so excited about fulfilling God’s purpose for our lives in Egbe and pray you will consider partnering with us on a monthly basis in this amazing mission! Click the Give button above to partner with us.

House for Sale at 13801 Rehl Rd Louisville, KY for $325,000

Posted: March 3, 2013 by Patrice Miles in Uncategorized
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Out HouseYes, our house is for sale and everything else along with it. Click the photo of our home to be directed to the actual listing. We have had out home on the market for about a month and have received 2 contracts. Unfortunately the first was too low and the second is a contingency contract that we are working out the details to now. We also have a 3rd party that should be making an offer next month. Our home that Lenny built for us  is right down the street from Southeast Christian Church and Christian Academy of Louisville. It sits on 2 beautiful wooded acres but yet so close to everything. It is bittersweet to sell her as we have scriptures written in the walls and a lot of memories. Lenny completed most of the custom projects with his own hands. He is at peace as I am that God has something so much nicer planned for us in Egbe.

20' Crownline Deck Boat

20′ Crownline Deck Boat

We will also be selling our boat and many other items in our home. Lenny’s pride and joy was his deck boat and he can tell you everything about it if you or someone you know is interested. For now it is a 20″ Crownline deck boat that can easily fit 10 people on while skiing and tubing. He is asking $8,000 for it.

Egbe Grocery Store

Posted: March 1, 2013 by Patrice Miles in Uncategorized
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Egbe Grocery Store

Egbe Grocery Store

Abby Anderson was nice enough to send us a picture of our new grocery store. As you can see we will have a large selection of items to choose from….HAHA. We will be living in the bush so I guess I should be happy that we have a grocery store at all. We have started thinking of items to ship over before we arrive since we will need some time to adjust to the Nigerian food. We tried to quit drinking coffee and after a week we were going to hurt someone our ourselves. Needless to say we will be shipping 100lbs of coffee along with many other essentials in May on a large shipping container. A few other items will be our couches, mattresses, clothing for two years, dishes, small appliances, and a motorcycle for transportation. These are just a few of the items we have been advised that we will not be able to live without. This is just the beginning of items we will need to purchase and pack. It is very overwhelming and since we have no mail courier service and the closest town with essentials is 3 hours away, we get worried that we may forget something!

Fundraising Has Started and the Date is Set For August

Posted: February 28, 2013 by Patrice Miles in Fundraising
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Appeal Letter Mailed

Appeal Letter Mailed

We are so excited to have started the process of fundraising. Over 500 letters went out over the past 30 days and we have already seen God bless our ministry through this. We received our budget from Egbe and we were a little shocked at the amount. We will need $6,500 a month in support for the next two years. In addition we will need $25,000 in one time set up costs. We were amazed to find out the Egbe team has committed $1,000 a month to our budget. In addition we have filed our application with Southeast Christian Church. They will give up to $2,000 a month towards our budget once approved. We won’t know until May if we are their 62nd approved missionary. This process has been very humbling and we are excited to open peoples eyes to the blessing they can experience by supporting this ministry. Our family will be heading to SIM for two weeks starting March 8th. We will be attending training all day on fundraising, culture, budgets and more. There is a teacher on site that will keep the kids up to date on their school work and will also be educating them on Nigeria. Once we return Patrice will complete her transition out of her Realtor role. April will be our first month with very little income and possibly packing and moving to our parent’s house. The date is set for August and starting in April we will be focused on fundraising and preparing for our journey. Please prayerfully consider supporting us by clicking on the donate button above.

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