Thank you Grace Covenant! Contributions to Project Peanut Butter have reached $43,952, and donations continue to arrive. These funds will be used to open a new RUTF factory in Sierra Leone, a nation with one of the world's highest child mortality rates.

The Outreach Team was proud to host a luncheon in of honor of Mark and Mardi Manary on Sunday, August 24, 2008, in Heartland Hall. A wonderful peanut-packed lunch was enjoyed by all, while the Manary's spoke to us about Project Peanut Butter.

Dr. Mark Manary, a St. Louis-based pediatrician/pediatric medicine professor at Washington University, saw a large problem in the country of Malawi. Malawi is a small, peaceful, landlocked country in sub-Saharan Africa. Its population is approximately 14 million people, most of whom are poor farmers. Seventy percent of young children are malnourished due to diets consisting mainly of low nutrient corn paste and, until recently, 23% of the children died before their 5th birthday. Malnourished children who were brought to nutritional rehab units were treated with a milk-based formula which had a 25% recovery rate. Manary did some research and developed a simple, inexpensive formula for a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) based on peanut butter. Two important benefits to this product are that this food does not need to be administered by a medical professional and doesn't need refrigeration which is a blessing in Malawi. This RUTF can be sent home with mothers who can treat their own children. And it tastes good so the children are happy to eat it. Best of all...it costs just $15.00 to save a child...and the recovery success rate is an astounding 90%!

To check out more information about this project, go to www.projectpeanutbutter.org.

January Communion Offering - Church Women United

January 6-7 Deacons Retreat
January 21 - KCK Hot Meal
January 29 - Annual Meeting and Potluck

February Communion Offering - Souper Bowl of Caring
Collection Nonperishable foods

February 5-12 - IHN
February 18 -- KCK Hot Meal