Tornadoes Sweep Across Kansas,
Missouri, Alabama and 5 other states.
Your HELP IS NEEDED!
Joplin, Missouri
and Alabama
“Super Cell”
Tornado Relief

The Fellowship of Christian Farmers will be setting up a base camp in rural Joplin, Missouri to begin the long recovery campaign from an EW-4 tornado that hit this southwest Missouri city of 50,000 people on Sunday, May 22nd. First responders are at work in the search and rescue stage of the disaster relief. Farmers who know how to run loaders and chain saws will be needed in the rural areas surrounding Joplin. Fencing repairs on pasture land will be needed immediately. Farmers across the Midwest are busy with spring planting, but they know what it is like to suffer a disaster. “There is no such thing as a well timed disaster.” Says Ron Schernikau, Beaver Crossing, Nebraska. “We are busy but we can get down to Joplin to help some folks for a few days.”

The Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International has its shower trailer and cots at the Sommerville Baptist Church in Sommerville, Alabama to begin helping farm families in Morgan County rebuild following the April 27th tornadoes. Sommerville is located southeast of Decatur, Alabama. Pasture fencelines need to be restored and downed trees need to be cut up.

Two diagonal lines of “Super Cells” ran across the upper half of Alabama. One super cell line ran from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham in a path of destruction a half mile wide and 80 miles long. The second super cell ran parallel just to the north that ran through Huntsville. This super cell was a half mile wide and 120 miles long. Sommerville is in the center of this line of destruction.

These storms hit at a time of the year when most farmers are busy planting. The Fellowship of Christian Farmers invites retired farmers, church groups, and FFA Chapters to consider traveling to the Fellowship’s base camp in Sommerville, Alabama to put love into action helping our Alabama neighbors .

Contact the FCFI Home Office to register your team to be part of the “Joplin, Missouri and Alabama Super Cell Tornado Relief” campaign.

e-mail: fellowship @fcfi.org
phone: 309-365-8710 

FCFI
The Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International welcomes all who attended Fieldays, June 15-18th in Hamilton, North Island. The 2011 Fieldays is the first time the Fellowship exhibited at New Zealand’s largest farm show. Our goal at Fieldays was to set up a professional display, have fun interacting with people about their faith in Christ, and start a New Zealand organization for Fellowship of Christian Farmers, International. We will trust in the Lord for His direction.

FCFI has discipling materials for people who wish to study God’s Word, the Bible both in printed material and the www.growinginchrist.com website. Log on to the website to study the www.growinginchrist.com materials. E-mail the FCFI Home Office with your postal address so we can send the first set called “What the Bible Teaches” to you.

Send any other questions you may have to fellowship@fcfi.org regarding our organization. Lord willing we will be able to link you to a New Zealand address in the near future. Hopefully a by-product of the Fieldays exhibit will be the cultivation of new friendships where New Zealand farm families will visit North American farms, and North American farmers will visit New Zealand farms.

We look forward to hearing from you.

The New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays attracts over 100,000 visitors to Hamilton each year. Situated at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton Airport, Fieldays is the largest agricultural showcase in the Southern Hemisphere, also attracting urban visitors and families to see the latest in farming and rural living.