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Each month, we highlight one of the mission organizations supported by our church’s Great Commission Fund.

We are blessed with clean air in recent days, so I did a run early Thursday morning. I get recharged just observing and feeling God’s creation, the stars, the Bay, and later on, the clouds.

Our missionaries, Tim & Tessa Fortescue, are with Global Gates but are on Sabbatical. We wanted to share some of the concerns other Global Gates team members are facing, how they are responding to the pandemic and other mission opportunities or areas you may not have considered or thought to make part of your prayer life.

This past Thursday, our church hosted a Red Cross Blood Drive for the first time, and personally, this was the first time I have ever donated blood. We did this to support our greater community because COVID-19 has caused fewer donation facilities to be available, resulting in a blood shortage.