CUPS Financial Support by
the "300 Club"
CUPS
"300 Club" donors provide a strong foundation
for ongoing CUPS operations. The "300
Club" originated as an approach to obtain a
sustaining level of financial support from
individuals and families who contribute $25 per
month or more annually. This support is
essential if CUPS is to continue to provide
critical services to the far Northeastern region
of Mexico. As communicated in recent
newsletters, our ability to perform the
construction of educational and medical facilities
has been reduced, but CUPS continues to build
these very needed facilities. We will
complete two school additions, as described in
newsletters, this year relying on a limited number
of U.S. mission workers and mainly on community
residents working under the supervision of
Fidencio for the labor to complete the
projects. The material costs for these
facilities are funded from mission team
fees ($4600 per team), but this revenue
stream has been greatly reduced with the reduction
in mission team participation. While the
material costs for these projects are not
large (approximately $10,000 per project), we
would not be able to fund these
projects without the loving gifts
from "300 Club" donors. CUPS thanks those who
faithfully continue to support our work and hopes
others will be inspired to join in providing
critical sustaining financial
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Financial support
can be provided either by way of checks
mailed to CUPS or through donations made on our website. Also, please do not
overlook the potential that some employers have
programs that match charitable contributions.
A simple check with the corporate Human Resources
Department can provide details on how existing
programs are
administered. |
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Upcoming
Events |
May 22, 2011
Virtual
Team
June 5, 2011
Reserved for
Rio Grande
Valley
workgroup
June 19, 2011
Rio Grande
Valley Unified
Workgroup
June 26, 2011
Reserved for
Mexico
workgroup |
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Unified
Program
The
Unified Program brings together individuals
committed to work in Christian fellowship with
communities with identified needs; helping
children, enabling the handicapped, improving the
housing of the humble, and getting food to
families in need. The Rio Grande Valley Unified
Workgroup has been set for the week of June 19,
2011. Project work will be based upon the
composition of the team but will involve working
with Proyecto Azteca and building PETs. The
Unified Program may be especially appealing
to volunteers who have participated in CUPS
mission trips in the past with a church group, and
would like to continue to do so, but whose church
is no longer able to sponsor a workgroup. To find
out more information or to register, click here. Don't miss this
opportunity!
If
your organization has other ideas for partnering
with communities in Mexico, please contact
Louise Flippin.
Vicente
Guerrero Update
Walls have
been laid on the floor at Vicente Guerrero and the
school children are already benefiting with the
Student's Feeding program. The kitchen is
expected to be completed soon but until the
kitchen is functioning, food will be distributed
to individual families for their children's
lunches.
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Floor
poured for children at Vicente Guerrero
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Northwoods
Northwoods
Presbyterian Church from Houston, Texas worked
with Proyecto Azteca to help renovate the home of
Cayetano and Martha Lopez. The family now enjoys
new tile, an improved porch and ramps, plus a new
and pretty coat of exterior paint. Cayetano and
Martha are an elderly couple living solely on
social security. Now retired, they were both
farmworkers in the Rio Grande Valley and in
Michigan.
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Working
on the Lopez home. |
The
Northwoods team also built PETs and
helped package other PETs to send overseas.
The PETs they made will go to Mexico.
Four have already been delivered to
Paciano Garcia in Las Higuerillas, Daniel
Nunez Garcia and Gonzalo Rivera, both from
Matamoros and Miguel Angel Gomez Reyes from San
Fernando. This makes the total number of PETs
placed in Mexico by CUPS and our friends in Mexico
at 13. Thanks be to God for
those people who now have improved
mobility.
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Northwoods
Team making PETs
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