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How your gifts to Lott Carey make God’s love real in Guyana

Lott Carey’s mission partners were there for you a few years ago when the heavens opened in Guyana, pouring forth more rain than that impoverished South American nation was able to handle.

Trenches, canals, and rivers overflowed their banks. With rain still falling, roadways became waterways. If Noah had been around , he might have headed for an ark, but the residents of Beterverwagting, a small tropical village near the Atlantic coast, had to watch with tears in their eyes as their homes — and livelihoods — were washed away.

Many who live in Beterverwagting are small farmers, raising modest numbers of chickens, ducks, cows, and pigs. Their animals were gone, their little vegetable gardens lost. No one in Beterverwagting is rich, so you can imagine the impact when even their personal belongings began floating down the raging streams, mingling with putrid animal carcasses and foul waste matter from nearby farms and latrines.

Guyana, a remarkable amalgam of six peoples (including many descended from former slaves), is the second poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. None of the farmers in Beterverwagting had insurance, and when they approached lending institutions for money to restart their lives, all they got were cruel stares.

But then, through Lott Carey’s caring mission partners, you were there. You were there, saying “yes” to God’s will and to God’s way. You were there, providing grants to more than two hundred families, helping them rebuild and restart their lives.
Thanks to the gifts that you provided through the indigenous Missionary Baptist Church of Guyana, small farmers were able to purchase life-enhancing seeds and saplings. New livestock was brought in. Critically needed personal belongings were obtained.
Hope was restored because you were there, delivering the divine “yes,” a holy affirmation of Christ’s own love and compassion.

Even when there’s no flood in Guyana, you’re there. Through Lott Carey’s dedicated mission partners, you provide critical resources for an ongoing community farm near Long Creek. This farm offers fresh produce and cooking charcoal at reasonable prices to people in surrounding villages, while simultaneously providing employment to many who would otherwise be struggling to make ends meet.
In addition, through Lott Carey, you help underwrite a Christian-run cottage hospital and health center. Through Lott Carey, you provide sensitive HIV/AIDS training for church leaders. And you enable more than a dozen spirited young adults to pursue an empowering post-secondary education, an education that would have been closed to them if you hadn’t been willing to say “yes” to God’s will and God’s way.
Finally, you bring a rich sense of partnership to six gospel-filled congregations, one in the urban center of Georgetown, one in the large village of Beterverwagting, and four in remote rural areas. Five of these congregations also serve as food distribution centers, providing powdered milk, rice and other grains, beans, and clothing to many thousands of people every year.

Through Lott Carey, you make God’s love real in Guyana — and around the world.