Students for the Relief of the Oppressed

Thank you to everyone who showed up for the Benefit Swing Dance on Saturday Night! We had to lower our fundraising goals when it became clear the Benefit Concert would not materialize this term, but the Swing Dance brought in more than we hoped, netting about $250 after expenses. Along with money from the fundraising jars in local coffee-shops and a couple private donations, we have $390 to give to Sabbath House to help Naing Thang pay for the purchase of malaria medications in Burma--a sum that should go a long way in such a poor country. Praise God and pray for even greater fruits of our labors this fall!

SRO had been hoping to pull together a benefit concert this term to raise several hundred dollars to provide anti-malarial medicines to church clinics in Northern Burma, but unfortunately impracticable this term. By the Lord's providence, however, another opportunity presented itself--the end-of-the-year swing dance organized by Ben Nieuwsma. Ben has agreed to let us advertise and run the swing dance as a Benefit Dance, charging $5 for admission, about $3 of which will be able to go to funding the medicines. The Dance will be this Saturday evening. Pray that the Lord blesses the event. A Benefit Concert is still in the works, being planned for this Fall.