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aGreetings and Happy Friday!

A SPECIAL PRAYER
We are asking for our Free Wheelchair Mission family and friends to pray for one of our great supporters:  Please pray that Lisa, a FWM supporter and fundraiser, and her family will be comforted as they anxiously await a diagnosis for recent medical problems.
             DECEMBER 7, 2007
  • Last week 550 wheelchairs arrived in Ukraine, 550 in Costa Rica, and 1100 in Chile.
  • 11,000 wheelchairs are en route to thirteen countries
  • Taking over the Airwaves: On Tuesday December 11th Free Wheelchair Mission will be on KFSH 95.9 FM from 6:00am - 7:00pm for an all day radio-thon.  Don Schoendorfer will be in the studio as well as featured interviews with ex-NFL quarterback and Free Wheelchair Mission spokesman Jay Schroeder, Nicolai Calabria and many other special surprises.
  • It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas: Order your cards and ornaments today. Click here to see our Christmas store.  In a few simple steps you can give loved ones and friends cards and we give the poorest of the poor a wheelchair. It's that simple!
THE FRIDAY STORY

This story comes from our master partner in India, C. V. Vadavana.  He gave Vinci a Christmas present last year, and returned recently to see how she was doing:

Vinci was like any child till the age of nine. Then she got polio and both legs were paralyzed. Though she and her parents mourned on her fate, they refused to give up. Hence, she continued her education. Her mother used to carry her to school and then back home. After the school education she entered college and obtained a degree in Economics.

VinciVinci heard about the ministry of Free Wheelchair Mission through Sathyam Ministries. She applied for a one and almost immediately we gave one to her. It was on Christmas day, 2006.

Now she can move to the next room without crawling on the floor. Now she wheels herself to the kitchen and other rooms, and enjoys evening ‘wheelings’ in the courtyard. Oh how thankful she is, telling every body about the Christmas gift she got last year from Free Wheelchair Mission.

“I used to doubt God’s love toward me, and I felt that I was beginning to back away from my faith. But after last Christmas I began to walk closer to the Lord, praising and thanking Him for His dealings in my life.”

Vinci just completed various competitive examinations and interviews for a job with the Kerala Government, and now waits for the decision.  We pray you get that job!