Would you consider.....

Sponsoring a child in Zambia? A few posts ago I wrote about an incredible mom who along with her husband and others has started a minsitry called Wiphan in Zambia. One of the things they are most in need of is monthly sponsorship for the children. Currently there are approximately 20 children in need of sponsorship. The cost of sponsorship is just $39 a month. Your monthly gift will provide a child with basic education, biblical teaching, health care, one meal per day, uniforms, and school supplies. You will have the opportunity to be in contact with that child through letters and will receive periodic updates.

I've copied a bit of information from their website so you can get a clear picture of what they're all about.

Wiphan Care Ministries is an African-based ministry that exists solely to nurture and develop widows and orphans in the compounds outside of Ndola. Wiphan’s desire to “look after” widows and orphans comes directly from God’s word in James 1:27. “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.” The mission of our ministry is to love and care for the materially poor in Ndola, Zambia. Our aim is to relate to the children and ladies in our program through the love of Jesus Christ. As we develop these relationships through love, service, and community, their spirit is strengthened and we see firsthand how we are made to love others.
Wiphan has set up two school campuses in neighboring compounds…one called “Sinia Center” and the other called “Mapalo Center”. Together these schools serve 400 orphans and vulnerable children as well as 100 widows. Wiphan provides biblical education, skills training and daily meals. The ministry is run by local Zambian Christians partnering with an American support board in Atlanta, GA. Americans can be involved through prayer, financial support, trips, and child sponsorship aimed at developing relationships with our children, giving them a broader perspective on life and following Christ.
Objectives
• To empower widows and children with skills to become independent.
• To equip widows with necessary knowledge of childcare and home economices.
• To provide widows and children with healthcare and counseling.
• To provide spiritual, moral, and social education to widows and children as they face life’s   challenges.
• To provide shelter, meals, and clothing to orphans in the community.
• To empower the orphans and widows through the teaching of God’s Word.

Maybe you already sponsor a child or maybe you're feeling the crunch of the economy. But please prayerfully consider making a huge difference in the life of a child. What is thirty-nine dollars, really? Cutting out the Starbucks? A gym membership? One night out to dinner? When I consider that one dinner out with our kiddos costs this much it seems like an easy choice. One dinner or an entire month that a child is educated and fed. Mother Teresa said  "it is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

I'm praying along with Andrea that by Friday these sweet babes have all been sponsored and I promise that what you are blessed with is far more than what you can ever give them.

"Your little boy is very happy to have such a caring family like you! It is so wonderful and precious to receive each and every piece of mail from his family abroad. He is proud of you and tells his friends about you"....excerpt from a letter from our sponsored child in Swaziland. I don't share this to boast but simply because what we do for Wonder seems like so little and yet he is so grateful and has blessed us so greatly by his heart.

So one last time, if you didn't get the website before it's http://www.wiphan.org/.

Once our eyes are opened, we can't pretend we don't know what to do. God who weighs our hearts and keeps our souls, knows that we know, and holds us responsible to act. 

Proverbs 24:12