Update on the garage sale

Greetings! I simply wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who brought items for the garage sale and also to those who came to help. The support was overwhelming! Overall, we raised over $600 in two days! My family and I are going to attempt to hold another garage sale on Saturday, Oct. 9th. If anyone has any additional items, please feel free to bring them to the church or get with me and we can make arrangements for you to bring them to our home in Ozark. Thanks again so much! May God Bless you!!!

Fundraiser

My family and I are hosting a garage sale 9/24-9/26. If anyone has any items they desire to donate, all proceeds will go toward my mission opportunity to Uganda, Africa. If you attend Selmore Baptist, please bring your items to the church in the next two weeks. If anyone else desires to help, please do not hesitate to e-mail me at charitygray3@yahoo.com. I appreciate all your help and support! Thank you and may God Bless you!

Thank you!

I wanted to thank everyone in attendance for my presentation Wednesday night! I deeply appreciate your support! God Bless!

Africa Presentation

Please come this Wednesday night, August 18th at 7pm at Selmore Baptist Church in Ozark. I, along with Brent Smith, an individual from Watoto Ministries, will be giving a presentation regarding my upcoming mission opportunity to Uganda, Africa.

Watoto Church Statement of Beliefs

Please visit: http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=34318673#!/note.php?note_id=10150254257615304 to view Watoto Church's statement of beliefs. Also please visit www.watotochurch.com for additional information regarding Watoto Church. This is the church I attended while in Uganda, Africa last summer and also the church I will be attending while residing in Africa.

Clarification regarding the transfer of funds

Recently I was posed an excellent question regarding whether financial gifts may be sent through Watoto Ministries for accountability? I checked into this and found out that Watoto uses a specific bank, the same bank I also have my personal account set up with. The best way to ensure accountability is to mail your financial gift to:

Selmore Baptist Church
4768 Selmore Road
Ozark, MO 65721

If you mail a check, you can put in the Memo line: Charity Gray (Africa Trip). You can either make the check out to me or you can make the check out to Selmore Baptist Church. If you make the check out to me, I directly deposit that into my personal savings account that is left untouched until I leave for Africa. If you make a check out to Selmore Baptist Church, the church will deposit the money into my personal savings account. For accountability and tax purposes, financial gifts will go through Selmore Baptist Church. Selmore will then send you a tax letter.

Questions about Watoto

I wanted to take time to address one item regarding the financial aspect of Watoto and how the money is dispersed to me so you can rest assured that I am receiving 100% of the financial contributions. The individual donors will send their money directly to:

Selmore Baptist Church
4768 Selmore Road
Ozark, MO 65721, which to those of you who do not know is my home church. From the Church the money will be sent as one lump sum directly into my personal account that only I can access via debit/credit card while residing in Uganda.

Please feel free to post any other questions at any time or e-mail me at charitygray3@yahoo.com or call me at 417-207-4026. I'm also on Facebook.