He Gave His Blood...

Last week, Mossy Foot Project President, Sharon Barlow Daly, had an opportunity to share the history of the Mossy Foot Project with the Perspectives Class at Reality Church, Ventura, remembering and honoring the fact that God works through faithful individuals through the generations.

The featured speaker that night was Dr. Malcolm Hunter, a former colleague of Sharon's father, Nathan Barlow. Dr. Hunter shared a particularly compelling story in the life of Dr. Barlow, a story of redemption through the gift of blood that is particularly timely as we celebrate Easter 2011.

Read about this incident on our Mossyfoot Website. Wishing you all a Happy Easter with thanks for all your support this year!

Barefoot for Mossy Foot at Highpoint University

Students at High Point University in North Carolina learned what it was like to live "One day without shoes" in an event held April 7th and sponsored by the Alpha Phi Omega co-ed service fraternity and the TOMS Shoes Club.

It was wonderful to learn that the students of High Point took the initiative to organize this event and to contact us to let us know that they had elected to gift half the proceeds toward the work of the Mossy Foot Project.

Thanks to all of you at High Point for your passion to help those in Ethiopia who are afflicted with podoconiosis. Perhaps you will inspire others to organize more events on behalf of our cause. Read more HERE

God is NEVER Too Early or Too Late

We are constantly reminded at the Mossy Foot Project that God is the source who drives this work by His provisions and that those provisions are ALWAYS timely.

These past couple of years have been difficult ones to try not only sustain, but to even grow the work of Mossy Foot. Time and again, we reach a point where we wonder if the people we serve will have to "go without" in the coming month Then "God shows up!".

This was particularly true these last two months as we suffered from insufficient income and unexpectedly high expenses. Each month, "God showed up" in the form of a special gift from a partnering church, each time having no idea that they were meeting an extraordinary and immediate need. Last month, it was Reality in Ventura. This month, it is Kononia Community Church in Hanford. Thanks to their stepping forward, we can celebrate God's goodness. What an encouragement to us all!

Perhaps in the coming months, YOU will ALL step up and God will address the need in a totally different way!

Announcing the 2011 Mossy Foot Fundraising Banquet

The 2011 Mossy Foot Fundraising Banquet has been scheduled for Thursday, May 19th at the Moorpark Country Club.

Come join us to learn more about the Mossy Foot Project and how you can make a difference in the lives of the people of Ethiopia who are afflicted with this debilitating malady.

Also featured at the banquet this year will be a presentation by "Nazareth" and music by Chynna Phillips.

Get more info at our website or call 805-216-9971 for information and reservations.

Monthly Donations Now Received Online

Now all of you supporters of the Mossy Foot Project who are interested in signing up for Monthly Giving can "subscribe" through Paypal or directly through Credit Card Payment. Just go to our donations page, select the "SUBSCRIBE" option, and choose the your preferred level of monthly donation - (click - HERE).

Regular periodic giving is by far the best way to help Mossy Foot to fulfill its mission to help the poorest of the poor in Ethiopia. It enables our people to plan toward the future with assured support in mind.

For as little as $5 a week, you can provide complete medical treatment for a mossy foot patient. Thanks to all of you for your regular support.

Mossy Foot at Rotary Symposium

Our President, Sharon Daly, was a workshop speaker at a Rotary District conference in Santa Maria, California this past weekend. The Symposium To Eliminate Poverty Sustainably (STEPS) was the perfect place to spread the word about Mossy Foot, a disease of poverty. The Mossy Foot Project seeks to treat the medical malady of those with Mossy Foot in a manner that addresses the whole person: medically, vocationally, financially, socially, and spiritually. This picture shows Sharon (second from the left) during a question/answer panel discussion at the conference. Over 400 Rotarians attended the one-day conference.

SHOES... the Key to Mossy Foot Prevention

Since 2005, the Mossy Foot Project has been championing and participating in the distribution of shoes to children in Ethiopia with the intent of preventing the onset of Mossy Foot disease. Since then, tens of thousands of pairs of shoes have been distributed. With all those shoes we have not discovered one single case in which a child has come down with Mossy Foot disease since being provided with shoes!

Isn't that something to celebrate?