From @FWMission ... Friday Story: "A Gift for Gertrude"

GOING ON NOW ... double-down with Free Wheelchair Mission and 1st Presbyterian Church of Midland, Texas. Turning 1 wheelchair into 2, then 4! 
"Because no one should have to crawl!" was Don Schoendorfer's comment when he recognized the need for strong and inexpensive wheelchairs. Due to the DOUBLED matching funds set-up again this year, you can send FOUR wheelchairs for the price of ONE. That price is the same as last year - $78.00. The drive started September 27th and ends October 31st. For more information, please contact local drive coordinator
Maxine Hannifin at (432) 682-8740 or (432) 684-5352.

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Founded in 2001, Free Wheelchair Mission

is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to providing wheelchairs for the impoverished disabled in developing nations. Headquartered in Irvine, California, FWM works around the world in partnership with a vast network of humanitarian, faith-based and government organizations, sending wheelchairs to hundreds of thousands of disabled people, providing not only the gift of mobility, but of dignity, independence, and hope.

Friday Story: "A Gift for Gertrude"

Greetings, and Happy Friday!

Gertrude Musenero is 29 years old and lives in Busolwe, a small town in Uganda. At age three, she contracted a severe fever with long-lasting repercussions. Its ravages included loss of strength in her legs and she found herself unable to stand or even support herself with a cane. So for more than 25 years, Gertrude has been unable to walk ...

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Want to take one of these wheelchairs for a test drive? During normal business hours, visit the lobby at the Texas Street entrance of First Presbyterian Church-Midland, at the northwest corner of Texas and A streets, on the west side of downtown Midland. You can give the gift of mobility. The cost of $72.00 is a bargain to us ... but it is a life-changing gift to impoverished and disabled recipients ... and there are times when your contribution will be matched, reaching not one - but TWO, and sometimes FOUR recipients. Please note on your check "Wheelchair Gift."