Washington Churches Ready Containers for Africa
Posted by Terry White on September 10, 2010
Three Northwest District Grace Brethren churches, Sunnyside, Toppenish and Goldendale, are linking arms in a project to send two containers filled with equipment to the new ICDI Base in the northeast part of the Central African Republic.
Equipment and tools are needed to equip an ICDI repair facility being built there under the direction of Jim Hocking, founder and CEO of ICDI. The repair shop will be used to refurbish trucks and other equipment during the rainy season when travel is restricted at best and well drilling and maintenance cannot be done. Vehicles will be torn down and rebuilt to maintain them for the usual heavy wear and tear they experience during the construction season.
An early October, 2010, date has been set as the goal to have the two containers loaded and ready to be trucked to a shipping port.
Filed Under: Church News, Uncategorized
This is really a big deal in the continued effort of ICDI to grow and mature her operations in the CAR. The humanitarian needs among hundreds of thousands of our own Grace Brethren brothers and sisters is huge: clean water, food security & nutrition, AIDS education…these needs are tremendous within our own church family. This shipment of equipment & supplies will significantly increase ICDI’s capacity to intercede with long-term humanitarian assistance, through an integrated ministry model, in ways that eliminate western dependency. Truly a win-win investment for all concerned.
A great big THANK YOU to all those in the Northwest District that have initiated this call to action!
ICDI will also be establishing an Agricultural resource and research center at the same location setting up Seed banks, Spirolina farms, fish ponds and demonstration gardens.