Texas Couple to Serve at Maine Encampment

A few days ago, our Texas friends JR and Gloria Mathews stopped by our "summer home" in Northborough, MA, on their way to Farmington, Maine, to assist at the Baptist encampment there for the next several months.  Among their duties will be helping with camp administrative duties, serving in general maintenance, and who knows what else!!!  The Mathews served for several months in Western Massachusetts about three years ago as they worked to "cultivate the ground" for a church plant in the  Pittsfield area.  They are no strangers to mission work for they have served numerous times over the last several years in various needed areas---particularly in constructing and rehabbing properties following natural disasters. 

On their way to Maine, JR and Gloria brought a large volume of personal clothing items (caps, handmade baby blankets and quilts, etc.) which were contributed as part of a church-wide effort at the Mathews' home church, Hollybrook Baptist Church in Hawkins, Texas.  These will be distributed by Pleasant Street Baptist Church in Worcester, MA,  as needed in their many ministries to their inner city neighbors.

In the first photo below, you'll see JR and Gloria and their poodle heading to Maine from our home in Northborough!  The second photo displays the stack of items from Hollybrook being received by Kathryn Nunnelley, Mission Service Corps Church Strengthener with Pleasant Street Baptist Church.

MANY THANKS to the Texas church and to the Mathewses for meeting these needs.  May the Lord use these items to show His love to our Massachusetts brothers and sisters. . .