A rummage sale scheduled for today at a midtown church will raise funds for a medical mission to Burundi.
The sale is set for 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Christ Church United Methodist, 655 N. Craycroft Road.
Proceeds will go toward a local medical and faith mission to Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, where team members expect to do health screening exams at an orphanage. Most of the children they'll be seeing have lost parents to AIDS and genocide, said Bill Kluge, an emergency-room nurse at University Medical Center who will be part of the mission.
Kluge was in the UMC emergency room on June 3, the day a van carrying 17 African refugees rolled over on Interstate 10, instantly killing five of them. A sixth person died shortly after. Eleven others were injured and several continue to recover.
The occupants of the van were all either Burundian or Congolese. At the time, Kluge met Bigimba Ngabo, a pastor from a local church — Goshen Ministries, which caters to the local refugee population. At the time the pastor was acting as a translator for the refugees hospitalized at UMC.
Kluge, who attends Vineyard City Church in Tucson, met Ngabo through his own church several weeks later and the two began talking about a mission to Africa, he said.
Source:azstarnet.com/
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