At KRC, we are involved with a number of overseas workers and their projects, who we support in prayer and with financial assistance – this is a brief overview and has links to further information.
For Prayer this month:
- Burundi – Harvest for Christ and their outreach programme
- Nicaragua – Libby and Jo's ongoing court case with their old landlord.
- France – For Colin Crow and Daniel Mattioli as they start to work together.
The People
Simon and Lizzie Guillebaud with their son Zac
Great Lakes Outreach was founded in Burundi by Simon in 2003. He has been working there since 1998 throughout the civil war – Burundi is located immediately south of Rwanda and suffers from the same religious and ethnic tensions. GLO works with existing evangelical and outreach programmes, encouraging them to become self-supporting. It also supports various other works aimed at helping those whose lives have been so cruelly affected by the war – street children, orphans and those suffering from AIDS.
To find out more about GLO and their work please visit http://www.greatlakesoutreach.org/
Libby and Jo Adkins in Managua, Nicaragua
Libby and Jo have visited Nicaragua extensively since 1996 and spent a year (2001) working with street children. They returned in 2002 to found a work amongst children at risk, reaching children in one of the poorest areas of Managua – Santa Ana. Many of the children's parents and older siblings are alcoholics, drug users and prostitutes. "Exodo" – their project, involves feeding, educating and being available to these children, helping their families, caring for their medical and spiritual needs.
For more information on their work please visit http://www.lentonparish.org.uk/
Lize Oosthuizen in South Africa
POPKIDS was started in 2002 by Lize Oosthuizen in response to the needs of parents who were trying to gain employment and work skills through the charity POPUP. She saw that these young children needed care – education, health care, food, clothing and a place of security. What started as a plan to care few a few children exploded as mothers saw that this was a safe and caring environment that would care for their children while they sought work. POPKIDS currently care for more than 40 children up to the age of 3, and has more than 100 on their waiting list. Lize would love to be able to offer them all a place and her dream is to be able to offer them a children's home/village. She daily shows the love of God, and knows that her work is because of Him and blessed by Him.
To find out more information about Lize and this project please e-mail: popkids@popup.co.za
Roy and Jenny Ramble - Rupaidiah, India
The entrepreneurial and prolific spreading of the Gospel, coupled with genuine care and love emphasises a passion for making Christ known to all who come into contact with them. The Rambles clearly provide testament as to how evangelism should be done.
Roy and Jenny's story spans a lifetime of ministry in a remote Indian village called Rupaidiah situated on the Indian / Nepal border in the largest and poorest Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. What began as a Sunday School and Church plant has grown into a School for 800 pupils - now officially called ‘The Assemblies of God Church School', as well as a residential boys home, a separate girls home (MIWAS) for children escaping a lifetime of poverty, abuse and sexual slavery, an adult literacy and empowerment project (SEEMA) focusing on abused and homeless women as well as a health clinic which serves the local area (local in the sense that many patients walk for three days to access the care and support of the project). On top of this the Rambles have continued to plant Church's and Schools in the neighbouring foothills of the Himalayas despite continued uprising by the Nepalese Maoists.
The projects rely on continued prayer, financial support and the door is always open to anyone who may wish to visit. In 2001 Ben and Faye visited and worked at the project for a period of 4 months.
UK financial donations are processed via the Killingworth World Missions Trust and donations must be clearly marked for Roy and Jenny Ramble and can be gift aided. Simply express the desire to gift aid any donations and the Killingworth Trust will send you a form to complete.
Cheques payable to The Killingworth World Mission Trust and sent to: -
Killingworth World Mission Trust
Mr and Mrs N Moderate
Flodden
lingworth
Newcastle
NE12 0NF
Roy and Jenny can be e-mailed on rajminis@hotmail.com