Tag Archive for: Sponsorship

All I Want for Christmas

I don’t want a lot for Christmas… there is just one thing I need… SPONSORSHIP

Christmas is a special time where we can celebrate the birth of Jesus through giving of gifts. For many of the children in the Philippines, the gift they receive from LCP will be the only Christmas gift they receive. It may just be a doll or a toy car or a nice dress, not the lavish Christmas gifts children in the western world are typically accustomed to receiving, but the children are so overjoyed! They are so thrilled to receive anything for Christmas.

While these Christmas gifts are a blessing, each month these children also receive sponsorship, which is the gift that keeps on giving even after the Christmas trees are put away.  Currently, we have over 200 children waiting to be sponsored. All these children want for Christmas is someone like you who is loving enough to invest in their life and give them a chance at a better future through sponsorship for $35 per month.

The Most Wonderful Time of Year

Christmas is such a special time at Little Children of the Philippines. There are so many fun activities happening for our members. Thanks to your generosity, gifts and activities really make the Christmas season wonderful as we reflect on the true meaning of the season, Jesus’ birth. Take a look at all that is going on…

November 25— Dumaguete City Fiesta
December 1— Family sports, basketball tournament
December 2— Thanksgiving Sunday
December 8— Family fun run
December 9— Christmas gift distribution/Christmas festival
December 16— Family day
December 17-21— Community Christmas celebrations
December 22— Shelter children family day
December 23—Christmas Sunday service

We have so much to be grateful for, and people like you make all this possible. We look forward to the Christmas season with excitement. It is during this special time that children receive their first toy ever for Christmas, families are reunited, food is put on the table to celebrate (even if it is just a simple can of SPAM and rice). LCW/LCP does everything we can to make this season special. You all make that happen. Thank you for giving cans of SPAM, toys, books, clothes, jewelry, caps, school supplies, and more to be used as Christmas gifts! These will surely be a blessing to our members.

Thank you, sponsors and donors, for your faithful giving and support throughout the year of 2018. We look forward with excitement to sharing all the joy that your generosity brought for Christmas in our next issue. Remember, there are still over 200 children waiting for sponsorship. You can change their life forever through sponsorship.  We are still in need of funding to meet our 2018 budgets. Your gift to URGENT NEEDS can make an impact. Please keep LCW, LCP, and everyone impacted by this ministry in your prayers this Christmas.

Urgent Needs 2018

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To our faithful sponsors, donors, and supporters,

For 31 years, Little Children of the World has been giving HELP to the poverty-stricken people of Dumaguete City, Philippines. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your continued support and faithfulness to invest in the lives of those who are less fortunate. Through your help, LCW is actively working to make a difference and change lives in this lost and dying world. We write today to humbly ask for your financial partnership to meet our URGENT NEEDS.

We need your help because abandoned, abused, and neglected boys come to live in the Consuelo Home to seek shelter and care. Twenty eight boys are saved from the streets and have hope for the future due to the work of this home.

We need your help to bring the Gospel to the lost through the Peace and Faith Program. We are faithful stewards of the Great Commission, and we want to see the 6000+ people touched by our ministry come to the saving knowledge of Christ.

We need your help because vulnerable girls and girls who are victims need a place of refuge in the Wee Women Residential Dorm. Twenty six girls from the roughest situations imaginable are safe and given an opportunity for a better life in this shelter.

These are just a few of the most URGENT NEEDS. LCW changes lives for the better. Our programs make a difference. Your gift to URGENT NEEDS is an investment in helping where the need is greatest.

Please consider making a donation to URGENT NEEDS to support our underfunded programs and help us change the world one child at a time. Your financial partnership up to this point is such a blessing. Please help us meet our goal of $125,000 to reach LCW’s yearly program budgets.

Deepest thanks,

Glenna Houk Waller

LCW President/CEO

 

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Work of Faith, Labor of Love, & Steadfastness of Hope

Two texts of Scripture come immediately to mind when I think about my time at LCP. What else would you expect from a pastor? The first passage is Paul’s prayer of Thanksgiving for the church in Thessalonica and the second is Jesus’s short parable of the Kingdom of God in Matthew 13.

For me, LCP exhibits the same three things for which Paul was thankful in the young church in Thessalonica: her work of faith, labor of love, and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

I was truly amazed at the comprehensiveness of the work of faith in which LCP has been engaged. I saw it in the pre-schools; the School on Wheels, the soup kitchens; the weekly Bible studies; the Spirit filled worship service; the daily staff devotions; the clean, safe residences and the lovingly cared for children who live in them; the health clinic; the physical therapy program; the chorizo manufacturing livelihood project; and the scores of sponsored children and families. The comprehensive nature of the program was mind boggling considering that LCP has only been at work for a short 30 years.

I also saw LCP’s work of faith, labor of love, and steadfastness of hope in the smile of a CP afflicted child fully included in a pre-school class and lovingly assisted by his mother. I saw it in the huge well-used Bible in the lap of an elderly woman in one of the community Bible studies. I saw it in the hopes and dreams of the girls in the Wee Women’s Dorm, the younger boys in the Hanson House, and the older boys at the Consuelo Home. I saw it in the eyes of our sponsored child and her mother. I heard it in the stories of the alumni. I saw it in the joy and excitement of the high school, college, preschool and School on Wheel’s graduates. I saw it in the teamwork, dedication, enthusiasm, and wisdom of the staff. I saw it and was humbled by it.  Jesus said that faith can move mountains. LCP is living testimony to that truth.

LCP is an exhibition of what Jesus spoke about in what I think is his shortest parable of the Kingdom of God in Matthew 13:33. Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is like the leaven hidden in three measures of flour that eventually leavens the whole batch. LCP graduates are that leaven from my perspective. LCP nurtures and equips them and then sends them out into society to infuse it with the Kingdom of God. As a result, LCP is not only serving the children and families of Dumaguete but also the wider society through them.

We are deeply appreciative to have had an opportunity to help out with the community Bible studies and at the soup kitchens. I must admit that I felt a little unprepared and not really sure what passage of Scripture to choose for the studies but the one I finally did choose, Matthew 5:14-16, seemed to work.

One thing that I thought about when I saw the overwhelming involvement of the mothers of sponsored children was what it would take to get the fathers more visibly involved. Perhaps the Holy Spirit was opening our eyes to a new opportunity. On my return, I took the liberty of speaking to a colleague who has been deeply involved in men’s ministry for a number of years. Our conversation has only begun and I hope that the Lord will grace us with some useful ideas to share.

The trip is best summarized for me by the reaction of one of the congregants in the church I am temporarily serving as interim pastor. She looked at my face, heard some of the stories and said that I should go on more such trips because I looked so refreshed and excited about what I had seen God doing at LCP. For her to see that in me in spite of my struggling with jet lag was a testament to the amazing ministry of LCP.

My wife, Kathy, and I look forward to being advocates in the future for the program in the Mid-Atlantic. We now not only have a wealth of information and experiences to share, we also have the excitement and compulsion to share it.

 

By: John Paderson, LCP Volunteer