Global
The Glove Project
Faithfully Completed is partnering with The Glove Project for a week long effort to get 100 pairs of new or gently used gloves and mittens to the homeless in Minneapolis. It was initiated by a friend of ours, Dre Monseth. She writes: I’ve never been more grateful for a warm home than I am this winter. I’m not sure why. I’ve spent my whole life in Minnesota and have endured plenty of cold. But this winter is different. I can feel it in my bones. An overwhelming sense of gratefulness. Perhaps it’s because I’m a new mom – because being able to provide a warm and safe place for my daughter matters so much. This increased awareness of what I have has roused...
Read MoreProject: Indonesia boarding school
The project that helped form Faithfully Completed is our work in Indonesia with the boarding school. We currently provide monthly financial support to this boarding school, we have donated a suitcase of supplies (clothes, school supplies, toys), and supported trips to have these supplies delivered. The couple who runs the boarding school started with the intention of starting a school to teach children and teens Biblical principals of the Christian faith. After they started, things changed a bit when they started finding children who were abandoned on the streets. They took them in, fed them, and gave them a place to stay. They found out that these children on the...
Read MoreProject: Fill an Empty Suitcase
We had a friend traveling to Indonesia and we were able to coordinate the delivery of a suitcase to the boarding school we support. What a fun project! We had 4 categories of items that that we wanted to send: School supplies Clothes Toys Treats! One challenge we had was to find things that wouldn’t melt in the heat. We were able to purchase a bunch of school supplies, pencils, colored pencils, paper, and stickers. We purchased many new shirts, shorts and hair accessories. We put in two soccer balls along with an air pump, ballons, and hard candy. We found weight was the biggest challenge, we were within a fraction of a pound of the weight limit. We heard...
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