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From: James W. Goll
Date: 2008/05/01
Subject: From the Desk of James W. Goll
 A few weeks ago, Michal Ann and I were privileged to participate in The National Day of Prayer for the Cherokee Nation. Joining us along with many others were Mark Rodgers, one of our EN Board Members, and Mark Roye, the co-director of Compassion Acts. During this powerful weekend, Compassion Acts was privileged to donate thousands of meals of vitamin fortified rice to a Cherokee food pantry in Oklahoma. I asked Mark Rodgers to write a summary of the trip - and he has poignantly done so below.
Touching the World Together!
Dr. James W. Goll
From: David Morrison
Date: 2007/03/30 Fri PM 02:47:30 CDT
Subject: GREAT NEWS!
Hello Michal Ann (& the many others who have assisted to bring us this wonderful gift),
 Greetings to you! It is with great joy I announce that your container arrived at our Iris Africa base in Bangula, Malawi this afternoon. Bringing in containers isn't always the easiest thing to do - actually, its always not an easy thing to do. At this end we deal with the clearing agent (SDV), Malawi government and customs (MRA), shipping lines (Maersk), and transporters. As expected there is the usual running around in Blantyre and numerous phone calls between the different parties encouraging the forward process and dealing with snags or last minute 'new procedures'. Even though there were some unexpected delays, I am pleased that this container arrived today relatively smoothly. Praise be to God for watching over all things and bringing the container safely to us.
It arrived at around 3:00 PM. We gathered some men and began to offload into an empty container on site where the food will stay until the next distribution day on April 15th. The majority of the food will be given to those registered in our food program - these are mostly widows who look after orphaned grandchildren. There are 1700 families who receive food from us on a regular basis. These are the poorest of the poor - the most vulnerable. However, some of the food was immediately taken to feed hungry children today. 
This morning I had some visitors - two leaders came to see me from 'Good News Children's Home', an orphanage for 105 children located about 15 kms north of us. We have a good relationship with this ministry and have assisted them in the past. They came wondering if we had any extra food because they had run out. I smiled and said, "well, there's a container coming down this road today packed with food - perhaps that can help you." Even before the container was offloaded, I had 41 boxes in my Pinzgauer truck and was on my way with one of our national leaders Ali, to feed the children. It was such a blessing to be able to help them once again. They welcomed us with great rejoicing and prayers giving thanks to God for His provision.
I'll try my best to give you another update as the food is distributed over the next couple of weeks. We really appreciate your help and support of Iris Ministries here in Malawi and thank the Lord for entrusting us with food for the poor. If there are any particular follow-up reports you need, please let me know - we'll help as best we can.
Much love,
David Morrison "Mo"
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