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June 2010
A glimpse at Both Hands, halfway through 2010!
The Elmbrook Church Orphan Ministry in Brookfield, WI was launched in January of 2009 and recently started a Church Adoption Fund with Lifesong for Orphans. They had their first Both Hands project to raise money for the church fund as well as 2 families adopting! It was a great blessing! read more >>
November 2009
"I don't think I really knew what pure religion meant until..."
“I don’t think I really knew what pure religion meant until our Both Hands work day. It was a crisp October morning, and we had been praying that it wouldn’t rain. The fact that it didn’t seemed almost like a miracle. All day I watched as people we love and people we’d only just met poured their hearts and energy into Mrs. Lee’s house. Before the morning was even half over a group of about 20 junior high students and their leaders had managed to paint an entire house, doors were stained, baseboard was drying on the lawn and our foreman was under a sink trying to fix a leaky faucet. By afternoon another set of 20 junior high students had added a second coat of paint to the entire house.” read more >>