Making Plans –
Knowing He will Direct Our Steps
Things in Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Nicaragua are
really moving. In Kyrgyzstan, the kids are going to
camp at Lake Issukul and summer is proving to be a great time for swimming and
just being together. This camp was sponsored
by the Tokmok mayor’s office. A
wonderful blessing from our partners at the mayor’s office.
Here are some additional
important updates for this summer AND on into fall:
- Anya is still at
home. Her father has been convinced to
go into rehab for his drinking problem.
Olga, Costa, Katya and Andre are very involved with the family –
supporting them and keeping in close contact with the children. Anya will join the girls from Dayspring and
go to camp with them.
- Katya and Andre
are conducting the camp - a Christian
camp for children from crisis families.
Our children will be able to go to this camp as well. (Katya is our Life Skill trainer!)
- Costa and Olga
will help with the camp – teaching and doing crafts with the children.
- Fall will be full of
activity as will winter of this year. We
head off to Ukraine the end of August.
Lynn is going straight to Ukraine.
Ruby will be in Bangladesh and India working with World Without Orphans
– planning and strategizing with nationals who are working in their own
countries moving forward to address the global orphan crisis.
- Lynn and Ruby will be
conducting a church conference for families in Southern Ukraine in September,
along with doing leadership training to some key leaders who are working with
orphans through their church or NGO ministries.
- Ruby will be in Russia - as an invited participant in the American Russian Forum - this will take place September, 2013, conducting training in the area of Trauma.
- Jayne and David are heading
to Armenia and then on to Ukraine in September to conduct training in the area
of Trauma. David will go on to
Kyrgyzstan to work with the University of Central Asia and other individuals we
work with there – including our Jeremiah youth and Dayspring girls.
- Then in November Pastor
David and Jayne will head to Russia/Siberia.
LAMb International was able to join Pastor Illya and Janet Bansteev last
year. This year, Pastor David and Jayne
will join them to conduct training in the area of Trauma – in addition they
will do the same in Irskutz, Siberia.
- Lynn and Ruby will be in
Kyrgyzstan starting in December for an extended time. More details on this at a later blog.
- Pastor David and Jayne will
conduct a training of trainers in the area of Trauma for a ministry in Mexico
in January.
- We will be purchasing up to four commercial sewing machines for Jeremiah House - and Ruby's mother will join the team and start the first of the sewing classes. This will be followed by a national person being hired to teach the Jeremiah House youth how to make national crafts. Be prepared - we hope to have things for sale by the end of 2014!!!!
- Jeremiah Youth are selecting their schools. Ira has hers selected - Vika is yet to select. Each of these schools will be higher learning and require tuition - might you want to sponsor one of the youth for school?
- Life Skill Classes will resume once school starts - Red River youth will return for additional classes - it was a grand success this last year.
AND SOMEWHERE IN HERE WE WANT TO HELP OUR DEAR FRIENDS IN ZIMBABWE AND UGANDA….BUILDING CAPACITY - ACTIVATING AND EQUIPPING - AS PER OUR DEFINING SCRIPTURE - Ephesians 4:12
Plans and moving forward
with a fast pace:
1. Mentoring
program – training team to join our
on the ground staff. This team will come
from Ukraine and teach our Kyrgyzstan coordinators. This mentoring program is a standardized
program which will involve our local church, other NGO leaders and workers in
the orphanage….plus volunteers that we will find from different areas. These mentors will be working directly with
the children in the orphanages. You
might know this better as a program similar to “big brothers, big sisters.” We are expecting this to be conducted in
April 2014.
2. Short Term
Mission Team - We will be taking a team to Kyrgyzstan in
March, 2014. Now is the time to sign
up! March 15 – 25, 2014.
3. Social
Worker Team – This team will be
working with us to strengthen the pilot of the foster care program. We have a university interested in being in
partnership with us for this. Students
would help design, develop and implement a pilot program that will start our
work with the Tokmok mayor’s office in developing THEIR FOSTER CARE
PROGRAM.
4. Samaritan’s
Feet – We are blessed to have our
partners – Samaritan’s Feet joining our LAMb Team in three different venues –
Kyrgyzstan and in Nicaragua. Very
exciting. March – Kyrgyzstan; June –
Kyrgyzstan and November 2014 – Nicaragua.
5. Woman’s
Conference – We have a Barnabas team
going to Nicaragua to conduct a woman’s conference. This short term LAMb International mission
trip will be in Managua area this August – blessing and encouraging women. We have five mighty women going to conduct
this conference.
6. Barnabas – Pastor Glen continues traveling to Nicaragua –
working with a key group of pastors.
7. ABC KIDS,
Scripture Memorization Program for Kids – Pastor Glen has many ideas of ensuring this book gets into the hands
of kids in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
You can help make this happen as well.
Let us tell you how!
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KYRGYZSTAN WITHOUT
ORPHANS CONFERENCE – SPRING 2014….
We are working with several churches and NGO’s to
conduct this spring conference. We have
the international leader of World Without Orphans lined up to attend and a strong
group of nationals on the ground in Kyrgyzstan ready to make it happen. Stay tuned – as this is VERY EXCITING. LAMb International is excited to be conducting this conference!
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