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January or February:
A 2-week training in the
capital city. ($85/ea for
Room and Board)
February through May:
Individualized follow-up for each children’s pastor by Joel and
Joseph ($1500 for gas and food)
June through August:
It’s the rainy season, so the children’s pastors will be cultivating
their fields.
September:
A 3-4 day evangelistic kid’s camp. ($1000 to sponsor children for
the camp)
October:
A 1 week training to prepare for Give a Kid a Christmas in December. ($250)
December:
Give a Kid a Christmas! We will distribute gifts and present the Gospel
to over 2000 kids in the villages that the kid’s clubs are in. (A
separate budget)
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Children are coming to
Christ.
Hundreds of children are committing their lives to Christ, even in the
face of persecution. Children are the gateway to reaching the Muslims
of Burkina.
Unity in the churches.
As these Children’s pastors work together, their churches have more
fellowship, and we have seen churches getting together to help each other
in outreaches.
Awareness of other tribes.
As children from other tribes mingle in the Kid’s clubs, the churches
are realizing that these Muslim people can be reached.
Churches are now seeing the value and importance
of children.
Awakening of zeal and hope:
As they seen the passion of these children’s pastors and
the results of the kid’s clubs, the pastors are becoming more zealous
in their evangelizing.
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We will send you a personalized video
after each of the steps of the one-year program. These will be geared
to kids (high energy, some silliness, fun music) and geared to the particular
church (messages with the kid’s church name in it, messages from
the sponsored children’s pastor directly to the church, etc..)
We will keep you church updated
with prayer needs and testimonies throughout the year,
with photos. (in a powerpoint format if possible)
We will be
able to make customized videos
based on the children’s pastor’s needs (if you want a video
on a particular subject, or with a particular message, etc…)
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Fund the project.
We are inviting churches to take part, and together they will raise
the $4000 needed for the project. At least a portion will need to be raised
by the children.
Committed involvement.
We ask that the videos be shown, that when we ask for prayer, that
the kids pray and that the children’s pastors in the States involve
their children as much as possible. We believe that the battle is won
in prayer, and we will be telling the African children’s pastors
that there are churches in the States praying earnestly for them.
Flexibility.
This is a project that will take place in the villages of Africa. We will
make our plans, but nothing ever works out exactly as planned (they do
not have watches or day-planners). We will have victories and setbacks,
failures and successes, and we will experience it all together.
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