La Cima’s website was recently hacked.  We apologize for any inconvenience and want you to know we are still here and the mission continues.

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A storm is brewing on the Thai/Burma border in Southeast Asia. Hostilities in Karen State, Burma are causing many people to be displaced from their homes/villages as they attempt to flee the fighting to protect their families. This is resulting in refugees moving into, or toward, Thailand with no food, no shelter, no clothing, no nothing. We are partnering with The Displaced Persons Response Network and the Karen Department of Health and Welfare to raise money for the purchase of rice, salt, supplies for construction of shelters, medicine, clothing, and other basic survival necessities. We would like to invite you to participate with us in this endeavor.

This fund-raising project is part of a broad effort to save lives and improve quality of life for many people in great need. The people who will benefit from this project literally only have the clothes on their back and they have no other options.

A running total will be kept on this facebook page so that you can see what impact you are having.

For a little less than $600.00 enough rice can be bought (about one ton) and it will feed 60 people for one month. That is not a lot of money for a major impact.

100% of all donations received between December 17, 2010 and January 31, 2011 will be sent to the field. No special indication/designation need be made to ensure funds make it to Thailand, it’s all going.

Thank you in advance for being a part of something bigger than all of us.

How To Donate:
Tax deductible* donations can be made to La Cima World Missions through PayPal by going to our “Donations” page — http://www.lacimaworldmissions.org/donations/

*Donations are not tax deductible for donors outside the United States, La Cima World Missions is recognized as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization.

A direct donation through PayPal can be made by sending funds to the email address — lacima.missions@gmail.com

Or by clicking the button below:

Snail Mail donations can be made by sending checks to:
La Cima World Missions
PO Box 54322
Lexington, KY 40555-4322

This is your chance to help us live up to our motto: “We Didn’t Come To Watch!”
James 2:26 – Faith Without Works is Dead

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The movie Braveheart is one of my all-time favorites.  It is the story of William Wallace who was a Scotsman that led a crusade to free Scotland from the grasp of English rule.  William Wallace was portrayed by Mel Gibson as a fearless combatant in some of the most brutal warfare ever to occur in history.

The weapon of choice of William Wallace was the Scottish Claymore.  It was the massive sword used to cut down the English with deadly effectiveness.  The Claymore was a fine weapon, and though it appeared ominous and intimidating on the field of battle, it was not always that way.

The Claymore began its life as a hunk of iron ore.  It was mined from the depths of the earth by a hard working dirt covered miner. The ore was washed of dirt and debris then smelted in a furnace to bring forth pure iron.  This iron was then cast into a rough form which was given to a skilled blacksmith to begin the forging process.

At first the blacksmith prepared his furnace and increased the temperature with the use of a bellows and hot coals. The iron was placed into the fire and heated to a malleable, red-hot state.  Then the blacksmith began to pound the metal with a heavy hammer, laying the block of iron over an anvil and using the hammer to carefully mold it.

This process was repeated numerous times, placed in the fire and heated to a moldable form, then carefully, yet slowly formed into the shape of a perfect sword.  In the hands of this artisan, the sword finally took its shape and appeared to be ready for battle.  The blacksmith, however, had not finished.

Even though the sword looked like it should, from all outward appearance, it had yet to be honed and sharpened to a razor edge.  The soldier that would carry this sword would need the strongest, sharpest, most efficient weapon he could find to give him the best odds of success on the battlefield.  The blacksmith then began honing the blade, first on a stone wheel to form an edge, then on to a leather strap to polish off the burs and bring it to a shaving sharp blade.

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