Hope Church and the TrashMountainProject

Today I met with Brett Durbin with the Trash Mountain project to get to know him and the ministry better. This is a man and a ministry that I really like.

Brett is graduating from Asbury Seminary next weekend with a master’s degree in Christian Leadership. He has served most recently as the college pastor at a large church here in Lakeland. His passion, though, is The Trash Mountain Project.

We connected a couple of weeks ago as I heard him speak about the work among some of the most impoverished kids in the world; Kids that forage through mountains of trash for their daily subsistence. These kids are knee deep in decaying garbage, walk among used hypodermic needles laced with HIV/AIDS and other extremely communicable diseases while they search for anything that may be sold to provide for their family. Oftentimes, these kids are as young as 6 years old. The Trash Mountain Project is building homes for the families that live in shanties on city dumps.

Hope Church is partnering with the Trash Mountain Project as our global mission. We have agreed to provide whatever leadership we can to help them accomplish their mission. At the same time, we are connecting with people who are looking for a new church in Lakeland who have also been touched by this global ministry.

Please pass the link around to your friends and family members. Let’s make this viral. If you could, please also pass this link around to anyone who has an organization or a trust who helps fund caring for the most impoverished kids around the world.

http://TrashMountainProject.com/Media.asp

Finally, if you would, please post the link above to the videos of this vital ministry as your Facebook status.

Sincerely,

Paul