Wednesday, January 20, 2010

More Than Gold Update - Vancouver 2010

Monday, January 18, 2010… 25 days until the Opening Ceremonies!

More Than Gold FYI ……

Ministry Assignments for mission teams and local volunteers are still changing. Over the weekend we learned that VANOC and Translink both completely reworked the schedules for our hospitality sites. How fun is that! So, we were almost done and ready to send your assignments out to you and now ……you’ll just have to wait a bit longer. Please pray for opportunities to talk with folks and that they will be curious about why we are giving away hot drinks for free. Some volunteers will be serving as greeters and assistants at performing arts concerts – pray that people will be drawn to attend and will think about spiritual things as a result.

For mission team volunteers, “What do we get in our registration packets?” has been an oft-repeated question. As a part of your registration fee mission team members will receive: 1 backpack, 1 toque (hat), 1 lanyard/Id tag, 1 prayer guide, 1 copy of Soul Cravings, 5 Book of Hope , 4 New Testaments, 15 Gospels of Mark, 10 MTG pins, 20 pocket guides, and maybe a couple of other surprises! All of these items can be viewed on the website, www.morethangold.ca.

“Are there still uniform packages/jackets available?” is another question we’ve been getting frequently. The answer is both yes and no. They are sold out but we are also getting a few last minute cancelations. If you have extras your team is no longer wanting please let us know ASAP and More Than Gold will resell them for you if possible. If you’ve decided at the last minute you would like a jacket/uniform package let us know and we’ll pass along the request. We do know that because we have had fewer mission volunteers sign on than expected we have lots of extra backpacks for sale.

Over the weekend we packed an additional 1208 Care Kits and 641 Welcome Kits to be distributed during the Games. Over 600 Care Kits are already in the hands of local agencies for distribution coinciding with the opening of the Games. All the rest are already committed as well. And we’ve still got more Welcome Kits to put together! Thank you so much to all our partners across the US and Canada who have contributed items and cash toward this project.

More next week!

Kevin Sigsby and Janet Campbell
More Than Gold Outreach Coordinators
131 E. Kings Road, North Vancouver, BC V7N 1H4
604-904-8908
ksigsby@yahoo.com or janet@vancouverfocus.ca

No comments: