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17 October 2015
Moved the blog
Hello everyone. We just launched a new website for our ministry at www.allowthechildren.org. Please go there and take a look.
24 September 2015
The Pastor Training Project
Sep 2015 Pastor Rene Gonzalez and his wife, Irene taught pastors and wives in Nicaragua.
Oct 2015 Dr. Shean Phillips will be going to Haiti to conduct our very first pastor training for that country
Oct 2015 Matt St. Clair and Don Updike will be going to Burundi, Africa to train pastors.
Nov 2015 Jim Warner and Brian Hoffman will be going to Nepal to train pastors.
26 August 2015
Allow The Women
Allow The Women-- to attend school and to work their jobs, to go about their daily lives and to meet their responsibilities. Many girls in developing countries struggle with how to manage their menstruation. Disposable products are rarely available and financially unattainable. Girls might miss five days of school every month for lack of a solution for this problem. Women might lose income from their jobs. A recent problem is the earthquake in Nepal. Many families lost everything they had.
We are doing a project to make re-usable menstrual pads. We hope to provide them to earthquake affected women in Nepal and also a set for every teen girl in our sponsorship program in all of our countries.
We are doing a project to make re-usable menstrual pads. We hope to provide them to earthquake affected women in Nepal and also a set for every teen girl in our sponsorship program in all of our countries.
Walkways for the Blind children
The School for the Blind in Burundi, Africa has three buildings. The children constantly move among them. One is the dorm where they live. The dining room is in one and classrooms in the third.
The ground was rough and uneven. Muddy puddles formed both a safety hazard and a chance to spend the remainder of the day with wet feet. ( The blind cannot see the puddles.) There are other needs and projects waiting to be done, but it blesses me to see these permanent walk ways built. There are three of them-- to protect the way between each of the buildings.
The ground was rough and uneven. Muddy puddles formed both a safety hazard and a chance to spend the remainder of the day with wet feet. ( The blind cannot see the puddles.) There are other needs and projects waiting to be done, but it blesses me to see these permanent walk ways built. There are three of them-- to protect the way between each of the buildings.
02 July 2015
Sponsorship Project
There is no obligation and no need to explain if you do not find a sponsor. No need even to send anything back. You can keep the photo and use it to pray for the child. Contact us!
Orphaned in Nepal
Sabita and Jeewan are orphans-- not because their parents died. As far as we know, both are still alive. But both have abandoned the two children, leaving with no contact for some time. They were living with grand parents until the earthquake, but the house was destroyed and the grandparents are struggling for survival. Sabita and Jeewan have come into one of our children's homes in Nepal. We will care for them and educate them, disciple them in God's Word and someday launch them into life where we hope they will lead and minister to many others. Life is hard. Earthquakes are hard. Yet our God uses the hard things to move his people to the places he wants them to be.
Nepal and the devastation
During our visit to Nepal, it was easy to drive through parts of the capital city and forget that an earthquake happened here. But turn a corner and a reminder might loom before us-- a building crumbled to the ground or an empty shell dangling the reminder to all who pass. A five story building might have uprooted and now leaning against its neighbor building. Or-- it might be standing as if unaffected, but a closer look reveals frightening cracks, as if one more small shake might bring it down. People were still living in tents, whether their building stood or not. If it still stood, there was the fear that something might bring it down. The ground still shook almost daily. I was aware of some of the tremors and sometimes I heard about them from others or read in the daily internet news.
Outside the city, whole villages have been destroyed. Houses built from mud and stone went down with the first tremors. Some of them can be rebuilt from the same materials, but in other cases, the ground was left unstable. The people need to move to another place and start life again with nothing. The suffering is impossible to grasp, especially as rainy season is upon the land. The rains make shelter a critical priority and it needs to be more than fabric tents. The rains mean the time of planting -- and those who miss planting also miss reaping. The agricultural cycle is a fact of life in the village-yet the land that the family owned might be gone, or no longer habitable.
Please pray for our people in Nepal. Even if they have no personal loss, the suffering is all around them. Allow was able to help as we wired earthquake relief funds to four different areas. Our trusted partners carried food and water, tents and medicines to people that the government agencies seemed to forget. Now we are busy with plans for a new children's home to orphaned and homeless children from one village which was forced to move.
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