Our trip to the Philippines

April 2, 2011

By Benjamin and Brock Baumgardner
Our names are Benjamin and Brock Baumgardner. We are 13-year-old twins and residents of Destin. We recently spent six days on a mission trip to the Philippines in February 2011. Our mission group, Mission Love Seeds, was founded by Mr. John Hawbaker and Mrs. Barbi Carroll-Hawbaker of Destin. We traveled to [...]

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New cookbook to benefit children of the world

August 25, 2010

From Armadillo Eggs to Zucchini Ripieni, “Heavenly Delights” offers a variety of recipes for the beginner to the advanced cook. Many recipes have been passed down from generation to generation.
Filled with 745 recipes from appetizers to desserts, the cookbook includes many international recipes and seafood recipes, and even has recipes for the animal friends in [...]

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Library in Philippines honors Nancy Hawbaker

April 19, 2010

By ARLENE MANNLEIN
Decatur Herald and Review Staff Writer
DECATUR – Nancy Judd Hawbaker of Decatur never got to see the library that now honors her in Pantay, Philippines.
After Hawbaker’s death in 2009 at age 67, her husband, Stuart, his brother, John, and John’s wife, Barbi Carroll-Hawbaker, decided to build the structure in her honor.
The library [...]

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UPDATE— Mission trip to Haiti

February 12, 2010

Pam Griffin
850-654-8444
pgriffin@thedestinlog.com
Clothes, food and supplies from Destin have reached orphans in Haiti.
A team from Mission Love Seeds left early Monday morning, Feb. 8, to fly to Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Team member Earl Baumgardner reported on his Web site that there were many humanitarian teams on the flight. The Mission team spent the [...]

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Mission Love Seeds heading to Haiti to help orphans

February 2, 2010

WANT TO HELP?
To donate, call Carroll at 850-865-1055 or Snuggs at 850-830-2331. Monetary donations can also be made at www.missionloveseeds.org and are tax deductible.
Pam Griffin
850-654-8444
pgriffin@thedestinlog.com
When Barbi Carroll founded Mission Love Seeds in 2004, it was her dream to help children around the world. The organization has helped the children in the Philippines, families in Mississippi [...]

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A door to the future opens in the Philippines

January 21, 2010

Pam Griffin
A village in the Philippines now has a library — thanks to the children of Destin.
Mission Love Seeds, based in Destin, has just completed building its first library in the village of Pantay, and the children at Destin United Methodist Church donated the first books during vacation Bible school last summer.
The library next to [...]

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From Destin to the Philippines, MLS feeds families

November 27, 2009

Special to The Log
Destin-based Mission Love Seeds has been very busy getting ready for the holidays.
They have been collecting food for Destin’s Harvest House, as well as continuing their efforts to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina who still struggle in Pearlington, Miss.
Household items, clothes and supplies are sent to families in the Appalachian Mountains [...]

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Help sought for typhoon survivors

October 11, 2009

Pam Griffin
On Saturday, Sept. 26, Typhoon Ketsana slammed into the Luzon region of the Philippines, and the villages supported by Destin’s Mission Love Seeds took a direct hit. Several villages had landslides where homes were destroyed and lives were lost.
The Mission’s coordinator in the Philippines is Fely Zapanta. She told Mission founders Barbi Carroll and [...]

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Typhoon causes death and destruction in villages (with video)

October 2, 2009

By Pam Griffin
On Saturday, Sept. 26, Typhoon Ketsana slammed into the Luzon region of the Philippines, and the villages supported by Destin’s Mission Love Seeds took a direct hit. Several villages had landslides where homes were destroyed and lives were lost.
Video from the Philippines.
As of Wednesday, another tropical storm was making its way to the [...]

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Winners announced in drawing

September 30, 2009

Mission Love Seeds raised almost $8,000 from the sale of raffle tickets for week’s stays in condos plus meals and would like to thank all those who bought tickets or worked so hard to make the fundraiser a success. The monies raised will be of immense help to carry on the Mission’s work.
The winning tickets [...]

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