Hello beloved child of God, I hope you’re fine by God’s grace, and I hope you’re having an awesome week.
A few years ago when I was looking for an online church and I got curious since I wanted to know how church was like abroad, so I started watching Hillsong Church on YouTube.
There was one church service which I really liked. Pastor Brian Houston talked about “Compassion International”; a Christian organization which specialises in collecting funds regularly from people who choose to sponsor children. These children are generally orphans. He invited people to decide to sponsor a child. It moved my heart so much that I wanted to sponsor a child. It was in 2016.
Two years later, as we went to visit an orphanage for the second time with a few friends of mine, one of my friends suggested that we should collect funds to pay for the school fees of the kids. That was so much like what Compassion International does. That’s where I suggested that we should do just like them: connect a child to a person who will sponsor them like a parent, pay for their school fees, and eventually send some money for their basic needs monthly.
That’s how me and my friends started our own Child sponsorship program.
Thank God, 2018 we were able to collect more than 470 USD (272 600 FCFA/XAF) to send the kids of Foundation Fact Orphanage to school. It didn’t reach the amount necessary to sponsor all of them, but God provided and other people apart from our sponsorship program sponsored the kids. I became the sponsor of a wonderful young girl, praise God.
By God’s grace, some of those children were reinserted into their families. This is amazing.
This year, 40 children have to be sent to school, and God is moving in awesome ways, touching the hearts of His children, not just in Cameroon but around the world. I am seeing God act in wonderful ways, and of course by God’s grace I will give you a report of the results.
While waiting, let me please invite you to join us in this journey by sponsoring a child.
Here is what it looks like
1. Sponsorship
Once you send money for a child (or more) to go to school this year, this child becomes your child.
We send you a receipt of payment( for transparency) and information about the child.
You are invited to visit them, pray for them daily, encourage them, and check on them. You can come to offer gifts to them, or food, or whatever you feel like The Lord calls you to give to them.
You become the parent this child doesn’t have anymore.
2. Love and Consistency
James 1:27 KJV
Pure religion and undefiled before God and The Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
You can choose to be present in the life of your child consistently, like by sending gifts recurrently, or by visiting frequently, or sending letters, or checking on your child just to make sure that everything is going well.
I know that living in another country doesn’t make this process easy but we can send pictures of your child to you, you can write letters which you can snap with your phone so that we print them and give it to your child, and you can start communicating through letters. The whole thing depends on you.
You can send money every month for their basic needs, as well as you might choose to ask for their birthday to send something special on their birthday, or for Christmas. You can get to be creative because this is your child.
Just imagine what you would love and try doing it for them.
At the end of the school year, the report card of your child is sent to you, and you can get back to your child to discuss about them on how their school year was. Perhaps this year in fact we will not wait for the end of the school year to give report cards, we can give them every trimester, so that you can see the progress of your kids.
3. Purpose
1 John 4:17 KJV
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.
Psalms 68:5 KJV
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
I believe that if you do something as awesome as choosing to sponsor a child it’s probably for a purpose.
God says He is The Father of orphans, and The Bible says that as He is so we are in this world.
As Christians when we choose to step up and sponsor a child, we are in fact letting God use us as He demonstrates His nature of Father in the lives of those children. He uses us to tell those kids that He is there and He will keep providing, and even if we weren’t there, even if we chose not to step up, God would still use someone else or something else to provide for them.
God doesn’t need us, but He gives us a wonderful opportunity to take part in His awesome plan in the lives of these children.
It’s a Christian orphanage, as such, they are given Biblical education. Strong Biblical education in fact: I noticed this even more last month when we went to play Bible Quiz with them, they are taught Scriptures and this is such a good thing.
I believe that when they see people outside of their normal environment step up and obey a calling of God by providing for them, they see other tangible examples of people who choose to obey God. This definitely will have an impact in their lives I am sure, because we show to them the love and solidarity which exists amongst Christians.
John 13:34-35 KJV
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Conclusion
If you’re interested in sponsoring a child, please contact me on Whatsapp +23795163509 or on Instagram @victoriaeyog
We have already started collecting funds and giving receipts. Thank you so much to all my friends and brothers and sisters in Christ who are already taking part in this. Thank you and God bless you.
Prayer
Father Lord God Almighty King Of Glory, I thank You because You are Jehovah Jireh and because You choose to use me to meet the needs of people around me. Thank You Lord for this opportunity, in Jesus Christ’s Name. Amen.
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