We felt that if we have to transform our community then one of the primary goals would be to equip future potential leaders out of this community through education. We felt that if we helped take the children of this community to school as we disciple them, then that way we would be able to preserve the word of God for the next generation and thus bring about transformation in the community. It wasn't going to be easy,but we started with few children as a family and then the church got involved. Soon, with help from a few friends here and there and we were able to put back to school 40 children who had dropped out of school for lack of school fees; these were in both primary and
secondary levels of education.In the picture is Pastor Johnson and Pastor Michael, the associate pastor with some of the 40 children.
Though hard, we struggled on and on, raising funds in a hard way, but our desire remained to take the children of our community to school.
The majority of parents can't afford to take their children to school because they are very poor. Besides, most of the parents are single mothers who got children with irresponsible fathers and others are widows and relatives. The rest of the children are orphans without any one to run to for help. Our community is full of thousands of children in a helpless state. Some don't have a place they call home,they sleep from place to place, with no bed or beddings. Eating a meal a day to many is a miracle, some children spend two days without food. This has caused many children to run to the street in search of company, shelter in unfinished buildings and food from garbage bins.We started praying that God would bring our way, people that will support us in our pursuit to touch our community with the love of Christ.
In July 2007, God joined our hearts with Jeff & Whitney from Elk city, who have a heart for helping children with education. God knitted their hearts with Darlene from Texas who committed herself to meet administration costs to start up a child sponsorship program for our community to help raise support for a hundred needy children, to start with.
Today 33 children are fully sponsored.God has opened for us an opportunity to take young children to school, through a child sponsorship program with friends from the USA. A donation
of $35 per month, one can take a child to primary school;paying school fees, buy a uniform and a pair of shoes, give lunch to the child and pay for health care.You will be given all the information about the child you will sponsor for he or she will be like your child and you can keep hearing from the child or children every month.
Thank you all who are sending gifts to sponsor a child, your gifts are already making a difference. May God bless you.
For more information to know how you can help to transform a child's life, please in this way contact: Jeff and Whitney at: whitney-123@hotmail.com
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