Helping others with Toothpaste, Pencils, Rice, and Lemonade.

We love the creativity and enthusiasm

of our volunteers and donors!

Helping others with Toothpaste,

Pencils, Rice, and Lemonade.

Yes...you read that correctly.

Simple supplies = big blessings!

We hope your 2016 is off to a great start! Thank you to all who have shown their support to provideInc through 2015 year-end giving as well as those who connected with us through service in December and the start of the new year. We are humbled and grateful. Also, please be sure to read through to the end to see what we have coming up in the weeks ahead. We would love to partner with you!

God bless you,

Lori Naseef

Director, provideInc

TOOTHPASTE...

toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, washcloths and a little ribbon.

Thanks to our "Sewn in Love" volunteers - Judy Simony, Anne Van Heukelom, Barbara Barratt, Carrie Gerdeman, and Gail Naseef - thirty "Toiletry Wraps" were created for Camp Dreamcatcher.

From Camp Dreamcatcher - "Thank you SO MUCH! We are very touched by your kindness and compassion and the wonderful camp supplies."

Thank you to Howard Pann, Steve Naseef, Kevin Parsons, Jennifer Coleman, Elizabeth Lelli, and Gail Naseef for your travel and hotel-sized toiletry contributions - this batch will bless kids whose lives have been impacted by AIDS through Camp Dreamcatcher's year-round programs.

More sewing project help is needed. See below...

PENCILS...

paper, notebooks, erasers, folders, (etc) in a backpack.

The girls of E4:12 are seniors this year and will soon be graduating. Their (final) Christmas service project was contributing backpacks and school supplies to ESTHERS International - as they had done as freshmen. Where has the time gone?

Thank you to our E4:12 members and families!

Learn more about ESTHERS International.

RICE...

soy, dehydrated vegetables, vitamin & mineral powder.

Thank you to the over 75 volunteers who used their hands "to feed families around the world and around the corner" at our 3rd annual Kids Against Hunger (KAH) food packaging event on Saturday 1/16/16. The 13,750 meals this year's team packaged will be shared with (1) Gleaners Food Bank in Pontiac, MI, (2) families in need in Haiti, and (3) a portion will be stored by KAH for future disaster relief needs.

Special thanks to Renee Klebba, of Ladies Luvin' Charity, for co-coordinating three Kids Against Hunger events at the First Congregational Church of Clarkston as part of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Weekend of Service. Thank you, also, to Kimber Bishop-Yanke and Michael Burwell for your helpful advice and guidance.

Thank you to Denise Wiltse, Angie Failla, Sam Tarkington and the other Ladies Luvin' Charity members and husbands who participated this year.

Shout out to Ayana and Paul Potts who, along with their six children, served with us in 2014, 2015 AND in 2016. Thank you very much Potts family.

LEMONADE...

with a twist - make your own trail mix & jewelry.

Thank you to Ashburn, VA elementary school students - Kaci, Avery, Macey, Emily and Jilly! Over the summer the five girls came up with some creative ideas, hosting a traditional lemonade stand with a twist! "Bling Up For Animals" also offered "make your own" trail mix and jewelry as well as temporary tattoos. Thanks to supportive friends and neighbors, $75 was raised! The girls chose to donate the money to provideInc, requesting that it be used to help animals. We contacted our friend, Alex Whitney, of Guardians for Animals who was grateful for the $75 and proud of the girls, too!

We are GRATEFUL to our GENEROUS provideInc DONORS !

THANK YOU 2015 YEAR-END DONORS:

• Fred & Jennifer Coleman (MI)

• John & Lorraine Andary (MI)

• Ryan & Gwynne Bambach (MI)

• Dick & Judy Baumhauer (MI)

• Guy & Linda Beauregard (MI)

• Charlie & Katie Biele (Dubai, UAE)

• Alan & Jennifer Bosma (GA)

• Phillip & Susan Bosma (GA)

• Brian & Maureen Buck (MI)

• Steve & Karen Buskirk (OH)

• Mony Chabria & Rose Naseef (IL)

• John & Mary Cox (MI)

• Bob & Nola Cucheran (MI)

• John & Sue Dankovich (MI)

• Tim & Jennifer Dysarz (MI)

• John & Kim Farstvedt (MI)

• Reed & Mel Fraley (OH)

• Pat & Adele Gipson (GA)

- in honor of mom, Ardis Spalding

• Steve & Beth Jaekle (VA)

• Eric & Michelle Kasten (KY)

• Philip & Renee Klebba (MI)

• Phillip & Lorraine Landfried (VA)

• Paul & Elizabeth Lelli (MI)

• David & Anita Leonard (MI)

• Judy Martin (VA)

• Jamie & Kris McBride (MI)

• Kaye Moeller (MI)

• Richard & Linda Moran (FL)

• Naif and Gail Naseef (MI)

• David & Angie Okonski (MI)

• Howard & Suzanne Pann (MI)

• Isaac & Yetta Pann (MI)

• Robert and Barbara Pote (MI)

• Q3 Asset Management (MI)

• Thank you, Brad Giaimo and team

• John & Kathy Richardson (MI)

• Frank & Joan Ryde (MI)

• Frank & Kay Ryde (MI)

• Rick & Joyce Schaefer (MI)

• Bob & Meg Schubert (MI)

• David & Betsy Sonnier (VA)

• TDC Group - The Doctors Management Company

- thank you, Sherry VanLoon

• Eddie & Isabelle Thomas (MI)

- in memory of sister, Genevieve Daniel

• Mike & Sherry VanLoon (MI)

• Mike & Carol Verville (MI)

• David & Karin Wells (MI)

• Greg and Patty Wernette (MI)

♥ MONTHLY & QUARTERLY DONORS:

• JP & Kristen Aragon (TX)

• Al & Judy Buskirk (VA)

• Bill & Lee Ellis (RI)

• Pat & Adele Gipson (GA)

• Mark & Donna Miller (MI)

WELCOME FIRST-TIME FINANCIAL DONORS:

• Mitchell & Barbara Barratt (MI)

• Donna Bur (MI)

• Brian & Kim Daenzer (MI)

• Mark & Julie Davis (MI)

• Mike & Debbie Franks (MI)

• Chris & Francine Kugelman (CA)

• Jeff and Gina Petherick (MI)

• Dan & Susan Shoemaker (MI)

• Gary & Wendy Warner (MI)

♥ KIDS AGAINST HUNGER DONORS:

• A Woman's Life

• Kevin & Colleen Everett & family (MI)

• First Congregational Church of Clarkston (MI)

• Ed & Brenda Jaacks (MI)

• Phil & Renee Klebba (MI)

• Kohl's Associates in Action Program

- thank you, Karin Wells

• Ladies Luvin' Charity

• Norma Lamar (MI)

• John & Geraldine Sawyer (MI)

• Simply Marcela Boutique (MI)

• TDC Group - The Doctors Management Company

- thank you, Sherry VanLoon

• Mike & Sherry VanLoon

If you didn't have a chance to make a

2015 year-end contribution but would

like to support our efforts, CLICK HERE.

MORE COOL STUFF...

CAGE
Thank you to Lake Orion HS students - Chase, Noah, and Dante - for cleaning our provideInc Home Base storage "cage" and moving shelving units and bins of supplies, reducing rental space and saving money!

CASES

Thank you to Lizzie Vojtisek and friends from Southfield Christian School for creating over thirty decorated pillow cases for troops serving overseas. These items are both practical and encouraging!

CARE PACKAGES

The Naseef and Pann families incorporated care package filling into their Thanksgiving festivities to help brighten Christmas for nephew/cousin, Eric, and his fellow US Airmen serving in Afghanistan.

CLOSET

Thank you Sandy Garry for sock, sweatshirt, underwear, and pajama shopping. These items were combined with donated bras, coats, and clothing to help stock the Lake Orion HS "Donation Closet".

HELP NEEDED...

SEWING VOLUNTEERS:

Whether you'd prefer to sew at home or join us at provideInc for our next sewing event, we are looking for sewers to create infant, child, and adult-sized bibs. The various bibs will be shipped or delivered to organizations helping infants in need, orphaned children, as well as hospitalized US veterans.

• Sat, 2/27/16
• provideInc Home Base

1520 S. Lapeer Rd, Lake Orion 48360 , #108

• Contact Lori Naseef at 248-420-8816

DONORS NEEDED...

CLOTHING DONORS :

provideInc will be participating - for the first time - in a Mom to Mom Sale as a fundraising effort to support our various efforts and projects. Children and teen clothing which was generously donated but did not meet the outlined requirements for our recent clothing drives (for Interns in Training at Mission of Hope Haiti and Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless' "Teen Closet" program) will, instead, be made available for sale through this sale. We welcome more donations and hope you will visit us and the other vendors. The sale, as a whole, benefits Lake Orion's Community Education programs:

• Sat, 3/19/16 from 9am to 1pm
• Community Education Resource Center

455 E. Scripps Road, Lake Orion 48360

• Contact Lori Naseef at 248-420-8816