December 27: Don & Brenda Wood, Manderson, WY
Manderson is located approx. 20 miles west of the Big Horn Mountains of WY and situated next to the Big Horn River. Population includes 104 ranchers and farmers who irrigate their land around us. Main crops are barley, corn, hay, sugar beets, and beans. The Manderson community inhabits a lot of low-income and welfare families as well as many who are in trouble with the law. We visit with everyone in town and are a visible and approachable presence…but most do not attend our church. Our church folks come from rural Manderson and 4 nearby communities, traveling as far as 22 miles each way. Our biggest outreach has been the children of Manderson and teens, mostly through the influence of our own 4 teen children. Please pray for continued funds for our new church building. The shell is erected and enclosed, with the exterior walls being constructed and windows soon to be purchased with the money that is left in our building fund. We desperately need a building to minister from. Our present church building is 100+ years old with no Sunday School rooms or fellowship hall and bathrooms that barely work. We make use of the town hall on a regular basis, but it is not even big enough for some of our events. Pray for our Sunday School program as we had to remove a smaller building that housed our SS to build the new building.
