Summer time is a time for getting work done.

By Matthew
Hard at work reconstructing a house
Ocean City Presbyterian work team 2008

      We had the wonderful opportunity to host a work group from Ocean City Presbyterian Church from OC, NJ. The work they accomplished made tremendous strides on the ABBA house reconstruction.
      The team constisted of 22 and participated in construction on three work sites as well as provide VBS for more than 100 children. We were excites to have the Pastor, Rev John Sheldon, the youth minister, Kim Murphy, the team coordinator, Phylis Martin to help organize this group. We also enjoyed a 3 generation set of Father, son and grandaughter as members of the O'Connell family came, Bruce, Glenn, and Heather. There was a good group of youth from the church, Karl Carmona, Rachael Colvin, Brad Young, and Susannah Sheldon. We had a solid core of elder workers and 4 experienced church members came, Elinore Carlstrom, Bill Davis, Barbara Grill, Sheryl Plisko. There was also a good number of working people who gave if their summer time vacation to help us Amanda and Michael Bell, Chris Twiggs, Katie Hibbert, Lisa Newsome, Bekka Olandt, Matt Plisko, and Dave Seals.
      Simone and I want to thank You all so much for all the time and talents that this group shared with us for the 1st week of August. You can see some thework they accomplished on our website at www.mckinnonclan.info/fotooc.html.

The work that has been done can be seen on the Republic House page www.mckinnonclan.info/republichouse.html.
Siloam Missionary Homes @ Snow Camp, N.C.

Church youths give up camp for a week of helping others

By Merle Monahan
Correspondent

::: Youth of Bethany Presbyterian Church, ZUNI, NC :::
      The youth of Zuni's Bethany Presbyterian Church enjoyed the Christian camp they had attended for the past six summers, but there was something missing, said Pastor Doug Van Niel.
      "They wanted to do something to help other people," he said.

Instead of going to camp, 10 kids from the church came up with a work project. For about a week near the end of July, the kids mixed cement, drilled holes and erected the framework for a maintenance building at Siloam Missionary Homes in Snow Camp, N.C.
Siloam Missionary Homes is a group of 13 homes in which missionaries and their families can live when they're back in the country from stations around the world, Van Niel said. The homes are supported by churches of all denominations. The project's pastor said the job was referred to the youth by a missionary family

in Brazil.
Merle Monahan, | Merlemondah@aol.com |

Computer Crash

By Simone McKinnon
Patient and hopeful
It had been years since we had a computer give up the ghost but this year will be marked as the year not one, but TWO computers crashed almost at the same time. We have been able to revive one computer and retrieve a small percent of the data from the hard drive of the other which had been our main computer. Please pray that we will still be given back much of our needed information such as mailing lists and recent photos by the hundreds. And now, put this down and go BACKUP your own computer so that you will not also be crying in the night! Thank you for your patience with the delay in hearing from us. In Him, Matthew and Simone McKinnon with our clan of boys Prayer

Pray for more workers to cover the needs of three houses, the Elohim House with boys age 8-13, the Hope House for girls and the Republic House. We are praying for those interested in these young people's lives. Hope House {for the girls} needs 3 ladies, and Elohim house {for the boys} needs 2 men and a lady.
Pray for Matthew's new opportunity to teach computer classes with a local afterschool program afiliated with Compassion International. This ministry has a local outreach to the disadvantaged families in the area, to bring them to Christ and keep them away from evil influences on the street.
Pray for the final setup of the computer lab that was scheduled for completion in September so that we can begin to teach classes.
Pray for recovery of all our data on the lost computer.

Praise

Praise for the work team that came from Ocean City and all the work they accomplished.
Praise for the arrival of Ben Krauss and Delton and Fernie Hochstedler and their good adjustment to the team in Brazil.
Praise for a good start to a homeschooling year with Nolan (2nd) and Ryan (1st)who both are eager to leap ahead in reading. Also for the Portuguese classes they have 3 afternoons a week which they enjoy even though they speak very little Portuguese.
Praise for Leandro, one of the Rescue House boys, who returned home after being with ABBA eight months. PTL!

In Him
Simone & Matthew McKinnon

Email: mnm@mckinnonclan.info
or matthew.zaven@terra.com.br

: mckinnonclan

Snail mail address:
Rua Manoel da Rocha Lins, 268
04827-010 São Paulo, SP Brazil

Other web sites:
BEA's Website
ABBA's Website

Col 4:2-6
Prayer and Praise older and previous letters

Last revised on :: 04th Oct 2008 ::
In our very busy summer we witnessed the Lord's hand in all that happened.