7/11/08: Container #CBFU 3451790. Trinity Presbyterian Church in Berwyn helped Mission Relief Services, and the Central American Relief Effort secure two charitable rate containers from Chiquita before the program expired. For the last five years, we have taken advantage of the discounts provided by the Great White Fleet and Chiquita Brands to ship into Honduras. Our costs will increase about $550 per container, but we are continuing to make great progress in this country. This container and Trinity provided a variety of school desks, dental equipment, and hospital equipment to our friends and projects in Honduras, Centro America.

7/10/08: Container #GCEU 6016084. The Highland Presbyterian Church of Lancaster has a project in El Salvador that supports the hospital San Juan de Dios. Infant cribs, infant monitors, and other pediatric supplies were sent. Also the church had collected sewing machines, fabrics, and many other useful items. A team from Highland Presbyterian assisted with the loading of the container, and it turned into a very fun and exciting time for the church’s and our mission journey.

6/30/08: Container# CBFU 3403236. Mission Relief Services and the Central American Relief Effort of Lancaster, PA shipped this container to four different recipients in southern Honduras. The Hospital at Choluteca received a giant inventory of medical equipment, supplies, and furnishings. The Pespire school received more dental equipment for their dental operatory. Beatrice got some items for her restaurants, and the Presbyterians got their stackable chairs. The local police also received some furniture for their office and station. This container defined what humanitarian cargoes are all about.

5/28/08: Container #DBFU3458331. The First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster sponsored this container to Tegucigalpa, Honduras and the Office of the First Lady. Computers, dental equipment, optical chairs, stretchers, and a host of additional institutional supplies are designated to the area hospital and clinics in the capital and western Honduras.

Several hospitals now have a great assortment of equipment, and a KIA SUV also was shipped in the 40’ container.

5/14/08, container #APZU 461169 2. Ethiopia and the hospital at Chiro received this surgical container. The World Family based in San Francisco, California, and the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia is focusing on orphans of AIDS, and elevating the hospitals and clinics for them. Mission Relief Services has shipped three containers to Ethiopia for this Bay Area charity. We provided a portable x-ray, processors, anesthesia products, and a very fine inventory of general hospital equipment and supplies. Ethiopia is very grateful for our services.

5/7/08: Container #TRLU 154012. First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster shipped computers and a KIA minivan down to Honduras to support their projects. Bell Optical of Deptford New Jersey donated eye examination equipment that was also included. Surgical linen, medical supplies, and even a pallet of syringes made it on the container. The van took up 1/3 of the container, but they got over 150 computers from the Lancaster General Hospital. Thank You Central American Relief Effort!

4/8/08: Container #TPHU 464947. Chimishlia, Moldova received this container that had many items from the Temple school of Podiatry in Philadelphia. By teaming up with Counterpart International of Washington DC, Mission Relief was able to elevate the Society of Disabled People from Chimishlia Raion. Not long after this shipment left our warehouse, the US State Department suspended all humanitarian cargo shipments due to costs. Belarus was a big recipient of Mission Relief products before this program ended, and Mission Relief has participated in this program for nearly 15 years!

3/19/08: Youth Outreach International received a truckload of Mission Relief Services material for their Uganda projects and clinics. Mission Relief provided exam room equipment, medical supplies, and the general items for the setting up of a rural clinic. The container was loaded out of the G.A.I.N warehouse in Lancaster, and we shipped in a container a farm tractor to Uganda for Youth Outreach in 2007.

2/27/08: Container #TRIU 770249 1. This shipment to southern Honduras was sponsored the Union Rescue Mission, and the Universal Aide Society of British Columbia. Both the Office of the First Lady’s pediatric programs in Tegucigalpa, and the Hospital Choluteca benefited from all the infant equipment donated by the Deborah Heart and Lung Hospital of Browns Mill New Jersey. Newborn and infant clothing and surgical drapes were donated by the giant laundry Hospital Services Corp of Allentown. The container arrived at the hospital in the middle of the night, and a large group was there to help unload.

2/18/08, container# CBFU 345384 9. Hospital Choluteca in the southern region of Honduras had wooden IV poles until they received this February container. Dental equipment was also sent. The recipients that benefited the most from this container may have been the children at Pespire school. They loved their new school desks, computer tables, office desks and filing cabinets from Villanova University. The southern region of Honduras is a continual project with focus on the hospitals, churches, children, and municipalities.