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Life for Children
Ministry
Michael
Agwanda
Providing Support to HIV/AIDS
Orphans
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Short-term Mission
Trip August
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Supporter,
Join us on this trip.
We promise you will
have a wonderful experience bringing Christ to
these orphans.
Come join us on this trip. You
will change lives and
maybe you will also experience a wonderful,
life-changing event. The children are very
excited as if they were waiting for
Christmas morning. They really enjoyed the
LCM Vacation Bible School last
December.
More children will be there this
August and each new child will be given a Bible of
their own.
Help these Orphans!
Both your lives will be changed
for the better.
This Vacation Bible School is
partially funded by St. John UMC, Aiken
SC and Northbrook UMC, Roswell
GA. We want to thank these churches and
their members for their gracious support.
If you would like to donate funds to
purchase Bibles or supplies for the
VBS mission, please mail your check
to:
Life for
Children Ministry
North Springs UMC
7770
Roswell Rd
Sandy Springs, GA 30350
Attn: Michael Agwanda - VBS
Fund
Supporter, I hope
you are able to travel with us on this
life-changing trip. Come serve the Lord. If
this time is not convenient for you, we will have
another trip in December 2009.
To receive
more information about the trip, just reply to this
email. Michael will be in touch with
you.
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| A Day of
Excitement! VBS - Day
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VBS - Day 1, Wachara, Kenya
very early in the morning. Before
light.
The morning light is barely
breaking. A faint reddish light appears in the
eastern sky. A couple of people have
flashlights. Many small faces barely visible begin
to gather from different parts of this small rural
village. Finally fifty-plus LCM
Orphans gather to take an exciting bus trip to the big
city for a three-day Vacation Bible School. Last
December this trip was great fun just being children and
learning more about their savior, Jesus Christ.
They made some dear friends with other orphans in
Kisumu. The newer children who have not made this
trip before are even more excited because a few of them
have never even seen a bus, much less taken a trip on
one. They finally board the bus and begin their 5-hour
trip across some very rough roads. Singing is one
of the wonderful activities they enjoy and it is a great
way to pass time on the road. Some of the children
who have not ridden in a vehicle just look out the
windows at the passing
landscape.
VBS - Day 1, Kisumu,
Kenya later that day.
The Kisumu
group of LCM orphans gather at the
Vacation Bible School headquarters to meet the busload
of kids coming from Wachara. They are excited to
see them again after the December VBS in which many
became friends.
The bus finally arrives and
the children unload and mix with the Kisumu
children. This is a big group, almost 150
kids. Boys and Girls excited about the next three
days.
The group met some old friends in the
Team Members from America and some new ones too.
The VBS was more like a three-day camp with the children
housed and fed at a high school facility in
Kisumu. All attendees are given a new LCM
VBS t-shirt and each new orphan is given a new
Bible. Many activities will fill the days for the
LCM orphans, including some well-needed
free time. For many of the children, this will be a
vacation from their normal days filled with searching
for firewood and hauling water. For the children from
Wachara, especially the new ones, it is the first time
they have seen running water from a faucet or shower
head, first time to sleep on a mattress on a bed, first
time to sit on a chair at a table and eat with plates,
cups and utensils, their first shower with a bar of
soap, and their first inside toilet with a flusher,
running water and bathroom tissue. Three meals a day
plus afternoon tea was a rarity for each of them. The
Team Members in the VBS will be blessed each day by the
warm smiles and wonderful music of the precious
children. Team Members will take home to America
many wonderful moments, lasting pictures in their minds
that may just change their lives. At the end of
three days it will be very hard to say good-bye, but the
Team Members will depart knowing that many of the
orphans had experienced the love of Christ and returned
to their homes with a brighter hope for the future for
themselves, their families and their
communities.
Bring your
Blessings to these
children!
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| August Short-Term
Mission Trip
Schedule |
Vacation Bible School for LCM Orphans
from Kisumu / Wachara
Day
1 Arrive
in-country and travel to hotel
Day 2
Bus arrives at 9:30 or 10:00 with children from
Wachara
Vacation
Bible School
Kickoff
Concurrent
construction work by Small Team
Day 3
Day 2 of VBS and construction
Day 4
Day 3 of VBS and construction team joins at the
closing
service for VBS.
Day 5 Children
depart for Wachara on
bus
Checkout of hotel and depart for
Wachara
Visit
with families and see
Wachara
Dinner
and hotel at Homo Bay or Kissi
Day 6 Breakfast
and depart for Maasi Mara, Africa's
greatest
wildlife reserve.
Lunch
on the
road
Check-in at hotel, afternoon tour, dinner
Day 7 Breakfast,
devotion, tours of Maasi Mara
Day 8 Breakfast,
depart for
Nairobi
Depart
for home on return flight from Nairobi at 8:10 pm
Day 9 Arrive
in Atlanta at
8:00am
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Supporter,
Greetings from Kenya Beloved.
A few days ago I was in Kenya, the summer is just
starting and it is getting hot. Just the right time for
tourist to start visiting some of the greatest game
parks in the world, found on this land. While the
tourist come to enjoy the wonders and the creation of
God in Kenya, almost 60% of the population has not
visited those parks, because they can't afford.
Poverty is still very evident and there is a
scarcity of maize (corn). Produce from
farms is not reliable anymore
because the drought that has also killed so
many livestock. Inflation is at highest point
ever and HIV/AIDS is still ravaging families and more
children are being left parentless.
Homeless.
Life for Children Ministry is
growing and we will soon announce more
children added to the program. We are blessed by
people like you who have been affected by the
economic downturn and yet have not given up on
their generosity for the glory of God. We could not
have done this without your prayers and financial
support. I'm so happy to be part of this great
endeavor giving life and hope again to
orphans.
How about these words of Paul to you who have been
faithful to this ministry:
2 Corinthians 9:11-12
"You will be made
rich every way so that you can be generous on every
occasion, and through us your generosity will result in
thanksgiving to God. This service that you perform
is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is
also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to
God".
Be blessed and thank you for being faithful to the
needs of this ministry.
We love you and we pray for you.
Be Blessed.
In His name,
MICHAEL
AGWANDA
Life for Children Ministry
404-384-8557
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Dick Weber 404-983-7864
Ron Griffith
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