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June 27, 2011 Newsletter
To date, God has never brought more people to Child Rescue than the ministry has been able to provide for. In a country like Cambodia, where there is great need everywhere, that is truly amazing. It seems that whenever a genuine need is brought to the ministry, God provides the resources.
Such is the case concerning Salis, Salim, Saly, and Sela earlier this year and shown in the photo above. After these children’s parents died, the father from a fishing accident and the mother from AIDs, all were in desperate need of a new home. When our board of directors heard of the children’s plight, the decision was unanimous to take them into the orphanage’s care. Almost immediately, God raised up sponsors to provide the necessary funds to care for all four additional children.
Even more recently, Child Rescue has committed to take in five more orphans that are currently awaiting sponsors. Through past experience, we are confident the additional funds to provide for their welfare will be provided for. Praise God, He never overwhelms us with more than we are able to trust Him for at any one time.
Other News
Five new schools for teaching tribal mountain peoples English have been successfully opened, four near the border of Cambodia and Laos, and one near Cambodia’s border with Viet Nam. Goodwill Community Training Centers (GFC) provides the funding for materials and teachers in all of the English teaching schools being administered by Child Rescue.
In March, GFC also provided the funding to purchase a vehicle – a low mileage, 1996 Toyota Sienna –– to enable, El Em, Field Director of Child Rescue in Cambodia, to visit the schools on a regular basis and make sure the classes are continually up to the standards they need to be to give the people attending them hope for a better future.
December 3, 2010 Newsletter
September saw many positive changes and answers to prayer in and around the orphanage. In that month, Boret and Kuntea became the new house parents to take charge of daily operations. Both Boret and Kuntea are spirit-filled Christians and feel a strong calling from God to care for orphaned children. The enthusiastic way the children have taken to them attests to that calling.
In November, another prayer was powerfully answered concerning the five orphans who graduated from high school this past spring and wanted to further their education and training in Phnom Penh. Petitions had been made throughout the year by Child Rescue board members for God to provide the money required for tuition and housing. Through a series of events, God put it on the hearts of a teacher and his students from Hong Kong to provide the necessary funds. After hearing of the need from Lutheran missionaries during a visit to the orphanage in September, the group went back to their school and conducted a series of fund-raisers to come up with the money. They returned in November and presented the missionary couple with a check for 4,000 U. S. dollars. Two of the orphans will attend one of those colleges to study banking and finance and the other three will attend separate vocational schools to be trained in: auto mechanics, electrical construction, and culinary arts. The $4000 has been put into an escrow account and any funds not used for the initial five orphans will go to help those who wish to follow in their footsteps.
With the support and approval of Goodwill Community Foundation (GCF), Child Rescue will be facilitating the teaching of five more English classes in several of the mountain villages near Laos where many tribal people still live. These people have been oppressed for decades by either out-side land grabbers who wish to steal their lands for profit or by communists who resent them for helping the US military during the Viet Nam conflict of the 1960s and 70s. With God’s help and the compassion of people supporting organizations and ministries like Child Rescue, these mountain people can hope for a better future.
Other News
Although Child Rescue was initially begun to help orphans subsisting in and around poor villages, the ministry now does all it can with its limited resources to help ease the plight of anyone in great need. Such is the case with a brother and sister whose mother died and whose father is handicapped and unable to provide for them. In November the Board of Directors made the decision to bring them into the orphanage and trust God for the money to take care of them.
August 23, 2010 Newsletter
GCF Training Centers (Goodwill) began donating funds to Child Rescue in 2008 to train not only Child Rescue orphans but also other children in nearby villages who want to learn English, basic mathematics and how to use a personal computer.
In March of 2010, eighty students graduated from the GFC/Child Rescue program. Early in August, 2010 Child Rescue completed the process of adding English classes to ten more villages. This brings the total number of children learning English in Child Rescue sponsored schools to two thousand.
The Child Rescue team is also pleased to announce that five of our high school graduates were taken in March to the city of Phnom Penh to explore possibilities in higher education and job training. All five are excited about their individual prospects and each will begin studies in their respective fields of interest during the start of the next school year.
A Christian church in Phnom Penh has offered to let the kids stay at their facility for the duration of their education for a minimal charge that covers primarily electricity which is very expensive in Cambodia.
Other News
The ministry team is planning another trip at the beginning of October of 2010. If you are interested in accompanying them, please contact Ken Armstrong at: ken@childrescueinc.org.
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