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2020 Vision Update: December 2018

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Last December, ICCM launched our 2020 Vision campaign, believing God for a major step forward in our ability to impact thousands of children’s lives. Our faithful sponsors and donors have gotten us off to a strong start. Thank you!

We thought you’d like a brief update as 2018 draws to a close.

 

2020 Vision is a three-year focus to strategically invest in three key areas:

01: Developing Our Global Team

02: Leveraging Our Technology

03: Completing Our Capital Projects

 

Developing Our Global Team

In 2018, three groups of leaders gathered for vision casting, team building, learning and strategic planning. Southeast Asian leaders met in the Philippines, seven Regional Coordinators from around the globe met in the U.S., and Latin American leaders met in Colombia.

When our leaders experience the power of being on a unified team, they are energized for the sacrificial work of administering the program and blessing the children. Equipped and motivated leaders end up benefiting the children in much greater ways.

 

Leveraging Our Technology

Thanks to your 2020 Vision gifts, we’ve finally upgraded from our 19-year-old database and website to a much better software and website, connected to each other.

You can create an account, view your child’s photo, birth date and other data and write a letter to your child. You cam make an online contribution and check to see your prior giving. You can also browse our new website with its many informative pages, one for each country. If you have friends or family members who don’t yet sponsor with ICCM, you can send them to the beautiful new site to find a child who desperately needs their support.

 

Completing Our Capital Projects

Buconyori Boys Boarding School in Kenya, now in it’s second year of operation, has added classrooms and dorms for its growing enrollment of students.

Davao City, the Philippines, Door of Hope Project had experienced a tragic fire in which a beloved young woman was killed. A memorial gift accomplished the first phase; 2020 Vision funds are being used to build a second story and make the space useable for the wonderful Holistic Child Develoment program at Door of Hope.

In Paraguay, an adjacent property to our Juan Wesley School became available to expand our preschool and outdoor play space. We were able to seize the opportunity to purchase and renovate this strategic property.

Alem Tena, Ethiopia now has a functional high school for the first time ever. The bright young learners are excited!

 

Will you help use finish strong for our first year of the 2020 Vision?

A generous year-end gift will keep the 2020 Vision on track and position us to face the New Year’s opportunities and challenges. These investments are bearing fruit all over the world. Through child sponsorship and ongoing gifts, children who had no hope of an education are thriving and growing. Vulnerable children are protected. Hungry little ones are being nourished. Thousands of them experience the joy of learning, hope for living and the love of Jesus.

Thank you for caring!

Thank you for investing in children through ICCM.

God bless you!

 

– International Child Care Ministries Staff

Brazil: Ninth Grade Graduation

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#ICCMBrazil 🇧🇷 Ninth grade graduation was held in the (miracle) gymnasium at our ICCM school in Monte Santo, Brazil. Ninth grade is the conclusion of “Fundamental” education in Brazil. Although it is not a certainty yet, we plan for many of these ninth graders to be able to continue their education in the tenth grade as of February.

Almost all the pieces are in place with the Government of Bahia for the school to begin offering tenth grade in 2019. (Continued prayer appreciated on this point.)

Posted by International Child Care Ministries on Monday, December 17, 2018

 

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The Cost of Fighting Hunger

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Two students being fed lunch at school in Haiti

 

Haiti
Half the population of Haiti is undernourished, earning less than $1 a day. ICCM provides  school lunches for about 20,000 children, both sponsored and unsponsored.

A meal for a child in Haiti is 25 cents.
A $10 gift will serve 40 children.

 

Dairy producing water buffalo

India
In India, 38% of children are stunted due to  chronic undernourishment. Gifts to the India Rice Fund supply essential nutrition to children living in residential care and to HIV/AIDS-impacted children in ICCM centers.

A meal for a child in India is 45 cents.
A $20 gift will serve 44 children.

 

Production of Busoma, a hearty grain produced in Burundi

Burundi
Donations bring relief to one of the world’s hungriest countries through the distribution of Busoma, a highly beneficial whole food cereal.

A meal of Busoma for a child is 11 cents a meal.
A $10 gift will serve 91 children.

This program receives financial assistance through other sources as well. Of the three food funds this fund is well supported.

 

Want to help eliminate hunger around the world? Click below to fight hunger.

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ICCM Haiti Projects

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We are extremely excited to premiere a new video about our #ICCMHaiti Food Fund 🇭🇹 and our partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects. Please share! 💚

Give to the Haiti Food Fund: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiFood
Give to Haiti Tree Projects: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiTrees
Give to Haiti Animal Projects: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiAnimals

Video: Nick Beardslee

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Posted by International Child Care Ministries on Tuesday, December 11, 2018

 

The short-term, urgent need is for school lunches provided by the Haiti Food Fund. Just 25 cents feeds a child!

To invest in longer-term solutions, you can give to our Haiti Tree Projects, in which we’re planting tens of thousands of fruit trees and other plants in our schools and at the homes of sponsored children in partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects.

We now also have managed Animal Projects, which demonstrate new ways of raising goats and chickens to benefit the school children and their families, as well as the environment.

Click on the video, share it widely and help us raise critically needed funds to come alongside Haiti in its chronic food insecurity.

ICCM Christmas Giving Guide 2018-2019

2018-2019 ICCM Christmas Giving Guide

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It’s our honor at ICCM to participate in God’s liberating work among His beloved poor and those sometimes referred to as His “cherished missing.” Our focus is on impoverished children.

Some of these children risk being trafficked and literally imprisoned. Our words and actions can protect them from exploitation.

Many children born into poverty have never known anything but oppression. They have no hope of an education, no sense of their own infinite worth, no idea that God could look on them with favor. These children are blind to their own value. When the good news comes with loving actions, it brings sight — their lives are brought into broad daylight, their eyes seeing new possibilities.

The Giving Guide is filled with ways for you to expand ICCM’s positive impact on children. We hope the pictures and projects will capture your imagination, giving new sight to your eyes. Maybe you’ll envision your contribution alleviating children’s medical needs, blessing them with farm animals, preventing trafficking or improving the hostel where they live. Whatever you can give will proclaim good news in all its beautiful and practical expressions.

Click here to view the guide.

 

 

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The Power of Sponsorship

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I’m embarrassed it took so long to say yes. I knew about ICCM child sponsorship for years. I trusted their leadership. I was excited about their vision. I even recommended their work to many. But, I had never said yes to sponsoring a child myself.

Part of the dilemma was choosing a child. How could I possibly select one of the beautiful faces over any of the others? Should I pick a certain gender? Would an older or younger child most benefit? How would I ever narrow down my choices to a continent, nonetheless an individual country? Unanswered questions postponed my decision. My good intentions and God’s nudges were waylaid by indecision and busyness.

Soon, I promised myself. But “soon” never came. Until it finally did. With an upcoming trip to a Creative Access Country, it was time. I knew which country, and would simply select any available, waiting child. I hoped I would actually meet my child while in the country.

Even before traveling to my sponsored child’s country, holding his bio and intake picture made God’s world smaller and more personal. Here was an individual child and family I could pray for by name. I could locate where they lived on a map. I could hang his picture on my refrigerator. A 6-year-old boy in a foreign land was now part of our family.

Once in country I did have the chance to meet him. Photographs tell the story of how his smile and laughter quickly spanned the cultural and language divide. I wondered why it had taken so long to say yes to sponsorship. I wondered how enthusiastically I could encourage others to also say yes. The retired empty nesters in my church. Our passionate youth who long to make a difference. Our children’s ministry that ministers to neighborhood children whose own difficult circumstances would find resonance with their brothers and sisters across the ocean.

One simple yes. One child across the ocean. Many lives changed. That’s the power of child sponsorship.

 

written by Pastor Kristen Bennett Marble