We Are OFFICIAL!

This month the Eramosa Pastoral Charge (The church I serve in the United Church of Canada) has officially embraced the Right to Write Ministry as a mission ministry of this congregation....

That means that any donations made (I think just in Canada) are now being made to a registered charity and therefore entitled to a charitable donation receipt for income tax purposes...  This is great news!

We are just getting ready to kick off the program by getting 20 donation boxes out into our community at various churches and schools.  We have also written to some companies that make school supplies to see if they have something they might be willing to contribute.

All in all, we are off to a good start.  The group of people who are there to support this work in Canada has grown to 8 and so Shelley and I will be leaving this work in good hands when we leave in 200 days or so...

This week we got a bank account set up so we can now receive monetary donations.  The supplies themselves are really starting to come in as well...  

More soon....  Kyle

Right to Write!

After 20 plus years as a minister, I realize that when we leave next year this will be a radical change in lifestyle in so many ways. Over the last number of years as we travelled each winter we discovered that there was a consistent shortage in almost every country we visited. That is, SCHOOL SUPPLIES , ie pencils, paper, crayons, color pencils etc.

Thus, we have decided that we will carry out a small ministry as we travel. We have decided to call this ministry, THE RIGHT TO WRITE....

We will be delivering school supplies to as many places as we can on our travels. So far we have collected a few hundred packs of colour pencils, regular pencils and loose leaf writing books. We hope before we leave to gather a few hundred more. And as we go along our hope is that a few people here in Canada will continue to collect for us and ship the supplies in bulk once or twice a year. Or that when people come to visit us, they will bring an extra suitcase full of supplies....

We are pretty excited about all of this and hope that people will contribute to what we think is a very worthwhile cause... If you feel moved to contribute, you can send us some school supplies directly, or use the donate button on this blog and we will purchase stuff in your name...

Cheers,
Kyle and Shelley...