I am excited to share with you a couple things we have been earnestly praying for and watching God lay before us. This is really going to be the most exciting year of our relationship with Hosanna, Ethiopia.
In this blog post I want to share with you our first and upcoming new news. Our second Sponsorship Launch!!! We are again partnering with Children's Hope Chest in opening a second Care Point for another 200 children to receive care. We are working with another church called Emanuel Christian Church in Hosanna! We have really enjoyed getting to know the Pastors and staff, that will be the loving Care Givers of our children. Emmanuel is an established Church of about 500 members, with a heart and a vision for this community that very much mirrors ours. There is power in partnering with people like this that will grow and strengthen the ministry and vision. This Care Point is very close to our Hosanna Care Point. This means we will be helping over 500 children in one of the poorest areas of Hosanna.
Here is the sweetest picture I took when I visited our newest Hosanna family members. They were beyond precious and very excited to get to know us and the feeling of hope was evident.
Why is this so exciting? The town of Hosanna is roughly 90,000 people. Its a large community that has grown considerably in the last 5 years. In fact when we started 5 years ago they were less then 50,000 people. So as we work in the town in the several areas of ministry that we are, we as a ministry are becoming fairly well known through out the town. We have beautiful relationships with the Mayor, the Chief of Police and the whole Police Department as well as close relationships with the main leading churches in several different denominations.
When these children are chosen they are carefully chosen with the community in mind. They reach the country sides and areas in which Muslims live and pick many muslim children as well to be in the program. As I think of why we are doing this one of my favorite verses come to mind of how Paul speaks of us becoming like minded with others so that we might reach out and bring them to Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:19-23Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
It is a powerful thing to watch as we spread our ministry to this town of Hosanna to reach out to many in their area of need to think like they think and become the very thing that their physical bodies need so that we can be the example their hearts need to respond to their Loving Creator. It happening and its so beautiful.
We would love for you to be a part of this exciting weekend. We need volunteers to loan iPads and/or volunteer to help sign families up to sponsor there child.
The big weekend is March 14th and 15th.
Go to this sign Up Genuius website to volunteer.
In my next blogpost I will be sharing more in detail of our next big Gods sized dream and a God sized plan for our future. This is our building for a Life Center that, will be three major ministries in one.
1. A school for our children and open to other children in the area.
2. A Church
3. A Discipleship Training Center
Along with these ministries it will also be a multifaceted facility.
1. With 50 Acres of land it will give us the opportunity to use it as farm land.
2. Vocational Training in several areas will be taught.
3. This facility will provide many with jobs.
Both of these exciting Venus will be spoken from the pulpit at Hosanna Church in Lakeville, in the next few months. We are very honored that Hosanna has been behind us as we continue to seek Gods leading in this beautiful Hosanna! to Hosanna relationship.
STAY TUNED AND SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER!!!!
