WAIT N’ SEE Serving The Communities Of The World In Stopping AIDS

A weekly report to our expanding WAIT family!

February 26th - March 4th 2007

To all WAIT friends,

You are reading the very first WAIT N’ SEE e-newsletter, your source for the most up-to-date info available on the Washington AIDS International Teens. Inside, you will find all the latest stories, photos and plans of both WAIT members and our partners in the fight against AIDS!

New Developments

Recent Contributors

Redeeming Love Christian Fellowship

Ms. Beatrice Bell

Lee and Helen Rowe

Collision Auto Crafters

The Hart family

Upcoming Events

Canadian WAIT and Year of Service Trainers reach out to the Caribbean March 5-24.

More about the trip…

See our calendar of events.

Donations gratefully accepted!

WAIT is supported by donations from individuals and organizations. We are expanding to countries such as South Africa, the nation with the most cases of HIV/AIDS, Grenada in the Caribbean, and Kenya in East Africa. WAIT depends on gifts of service, gifts of goods, and financial gifts to do our work. Every bit helps!

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South Africa Info & Costs

Kenya Merchandise On Sale!

Recently, some of our WAIT members were able to travel to Kenya in order to start brand new WAIT teams there! Our new friends are working hard to spread the message of abstinence throughout their country, where with only 14% of the population having been tested, over 1.3 million people are infected with AIDS – 1.5 total deaths, 8% of women and 4% men infected, 1.7 million orphans, and 1 out of 3 babies born with AIDS for a total of 120,000 infants already infected. The situation in Kenya is critical, and that’s why their WAIT team needs all the help it can get!

We’re selling authentic Kenyan merchandise we received during the trip in our online store; proceeds will go towards the Kenya WAIT team, their supplies, and their transportation costs, which will allow them to reach out even further. And if you like to read up on what happened during the trip, the entire report is on the website, as well!

Kenya Trip Reports

Kenya Merchandise

Washington AIDS International Teens

WAIT teaches people of all ages, races, religions, and cultures about the science of HIV. We advocate getting tested, living abstinent until a lifetime partnership, and good health care for those infected. We teach through the performing arts and other talents and skills, including electronic media and communication. WAIT works with anyone wishing to stop to AIDS in their communities and across the globe.

Recent Events:

The DC WAIT Team had three performances between February 23^rd and 24^th. We began the first day at Browne Jr. High School, for an audience of several hundred seventh and eighth graders. The entire team invested a great deal of heart into this performance, as the DC area is desperately in need of this message. The students were very inspired by the performance, as was clearly shown by their exuberance during the final act. After the performance, so many of the kids asked for more information, and several donated as well!

Later in the evening, we headed out to the Redeeming Love Christian Fellowship Tabernacle in Bladensburg, MD for their newly formed Friday night Youth Group. Though it was for a smaller audience, this performance was equally as lively and filled with heart. The audience members responded very enthusiastically, particularly in the game show, where they displayed an impressive wealth of knowledge about HIV and AIDS. One of the biggest surprises of the evening occurred after the conclusion of our performance, when Pastor Robert Clemetson presented our team with a $300 check, and his wife presented us with an additional $100 from her organization! We couldn’t believe the generosity of the congregation. Their faith in our work gave us further resolve to work even harder.

The next morning, we traveled up to Baltimore, MD for an ACLC “Unity in the Community” Prayer Breakfast at the God’s Unlimited Power International Ministry. After the breakfast was served, we performed the skit and Hero, which was well received by the attendees. Our performance was followed by the main speaker, whose topic was “Addressing AIDS With the Heart of Christ.” His sermon related to a point that Lan made while introducing WAIT: that only love can stop AIDS.

This point really is the epitome of what we do in WAIT. Only through the giving of genuine love can our message be spread to all these people, and can each audience member be inspired to be a world changer, helping in the fight to end HIV/AIDS.

News from the State teams:

New Jersey and Connecticut teams joined forces to train our newest state team: Massachusetts!

Read the whole story.

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E-mail: info@waitteam.org

Phone: (301) 577-1094

Address: 7752 Decatur Rd., Hyattsville, MD 20784

What's New on Our Website If you haven’t read the Kenya Trip Reports yet, read them now and see the beginning of our Africa initiative!

WAIT UK expands to Ireland! February brought expansion to the land of word and song, thanks to the hard work of our amazing UK WAIT team.

Merchandise page active! Now you can buy t-shirts, DVDs and other WAIT materials online! All transactions made secure by PayPal and Google Checkout.

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