SEMSAR will be hosting a pancake breakfast and benefit auction for Tyler Bartlett on July 28, 2007. The event will be held at the Harrisonville Community Center, beginning at 9:30 AM.
Tyler is a 9 year-old cub scout with a recent diagnosis of osteo sarcoma. His story can be found at www.caringbridge.org\visit\tylerbartlett.
All monies collected by SEMSAR during this event will go straight to meeting the needs of Tyler and his mother. SEMSAR does not believe in charging "handling" fees or collecting percentages of proceeds. Any charges incurred by SEMSAR as a result of hosting this event will be born by SEMSAR as a free-will offerring.
SEMSAR members are encouraged to get the word out, and bring as many people as possible to the event.
SEMSAR is proud to announce that we are the new provider of contract medical services for Starlight Theatres in Kansas City, MO. This is the first of many contracts we hope to negotiate, as a means of raising funding for our missions and community response work. As a result of this contract, SEMSAR now has professional and general liability insurance,and a workman's comp policy that protects all of our volunteer and paid staff.
SEMSAR Missionary Robert Taylor just recently returned from a missions trip to Dakar, which is in West Africa. He conducted security training and risk assessments for missions organizations there, as well as a host of other activities crammed into three weeks. Join with me in welcoming Robert home, and congratulating him on a job well-done.
Pictures of his trip are posted in the "Photos and More" section, under "Mission to Dakar." An email from Robert is posted below.
Hello All,
I pray that this email finds you well. I am back from my Missions Assignment to Dakar, Senegal (West Africa). After almost three weeks of training, youth groups, security assessments, chapels, business courses, missions retreat, heat, mosquitoes, malaria and illness (no not me) I made it back safely and almost 10 pounds lighter.
After 10 years of various (foreign) missions work, it is still an experience to say the least. The best part, was the interaction with the Senegalese nationals and the young people. I had a sincere opportunity to minister and be ministered to. I made some wonderful friends and learned a little bit of the language (Wolof). The scariest time was the traffic. Imagine 2 lanes of travel and six lanes of traffic. I even had the opportunity to purchase a KITCHEN SINK through the window of a taxi, on the highway at five miles an hour. These folks are the "best salesmen ever"
Most sad was the "slavery" still being invoked by the Islamic "holymen" or Marabou. Children 3-14 years old, panhandling for money, or selling anything for money. We carried bottles of peanuts in our vehicle just to feed them. Sad! American history has told a huge lie. Slavery was started by the African Tribal leaders and Arab businessmen. The European slave traders simply stocked the ships and sold them in North/South America.
Lastly the sickness that was rampant throughout. 1-2 missionaries were healthy. All the rest were figuratively speaking "hacking up a lung" all day an night. Two missionary children were sent to the USA for treatment of Malaria. I look forward to coming to your area and maybe discussing how you too can go and fulfill the Great Commission. It was tiring but very rewarding. If you ever decide to "get a check up from the neck up", please give me a shout.
(You can contact Robert through his SEMSAR email, at MrT@semsar.org)
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