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A Permanent Home for Children Without a Home
0Ilya and Janet Bantseev serve in Siberia where they pastor a church, run a Teen Challenge centre for recovering drug and alcohol addicts, and provide a place for orphans to live and learn when there is nowhere else to turn. The building where they have the orphanage has been provided to them to use for free.
A few years ago, God put it on their hearts to purchase the building that they had been provided for free use. However, the price was quite high and it simply wasn’t possible at the time. Two years later, after a great deal of prayer and fasting, the building was being put up for auction—at HALF the price it was posted at in their first attempt at purchase! Moreover, through generous donors choosing to give every day, God provided the funds needed to make the purchase!
Ilya and Janet report, “We’re very excited to share with you that this week we were able to finalize the purchase of the building for the Children’s Home! The building was originally given to us for free use, but the Lord allowed us to purchase it at the auction this week. We now will change the status of the building from a school to a residential building and start taking orphans in to live there permanently. We’re very grateful to God for all the prayers, construction teams and financial support that have made this dream come true!”
Now with the building purchased, renovations need to be done to bring the building up to code and for its intended usage as a live-in orphan home. Consider how you can give every day and partner with this orphanage in Siberia.
Just Love
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In 2003, Scott & Jodi Stewart along with their kids were in a position of great success by the world’s standards—yet found their life was lacking, doing nothing to make a real difference. Then they had an encounter with Jesus that rocked their world and changed their lives and family.
Working as a traveling engineer, Scott and his family followed God around the United States. They lived in Michigan where they were introduced to the needs of caring for people’s basic needs, while sharing salvation with them—sharing life, then sharing Christ. In other cities they lived in, they would walk the city streets all day looking for people in need, praying for those who would accept it, and starting small weekly “church” gatherings right on the sidewalks. They “just loved.”
Eventually God led them to a certain church in a certain city where they met some Christ followers who introduced the Stewart’s to the idea of overseas missions, specifically to Malawi, the poorest nation in Africa. God made a way for them to go and just love those in the greatest need.
Two years later, they returned to Canada, but their desire and call to international missions did not fizzle. This time after days of intense prayer, God showed them the “green country” on their atlas, which turned out to be Thailand. So once again they have followed God’s leading. Because people chose to give every day, they were able to follow this leading.
In November 2011, Scott, Jodi, Jael, Janohah, Irish, and Dagny left on an airplane to Bangkok, Thailand, to work alongside Peter and Patricia DeWit, 20 year PAOC veterans in Bangkok. Having only been on the ground for a few hours, Scott and his son, Irish, were already walking down the flooded streets of Bangkok, buying toast from a woman on the street side, striking up a conversation in hopes of developing a relationship and eventually winning the opportunity to share Christ with her.
No matter how hard they try not to, the Stewart’s can’t help but Just Love. How can you help the Stewart’s show God’s love to those in Thailand who have never heard about it ever before?
Shelter in the Philippine Rain
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Noah’s Ark was founded by PAOC global worker Linda Veldhuizen in 1989 in a rural northern community of the Philippines, arising out of a need for temporary shelter for orphaned, abandoned and malnourished children.
The Philippines has an average of twenty typhoons every year, and through the months of September and October 2011, two typhoons in particular caused the northern province of Ifugao to grind to a halt. What is already a remote region became even more remote with landslides, and bridges being washed away due to the typhoons impact. This prevented essential needs such as food and fuel from getting to the community Noah’s Ark resides within. Truly Linda’s Ark is a safe haven in the midst of the storms.
Thankfully amidst the destruction from the storms, there is celebration to be had with the graduations of children from the home in elementary, high school, and college levels.
On average Noah’s Ark has around 45 children in the Home at one time. The children range in age from a few months to college students and some have special needs such as cerebral palsy. Donations to Noah’s Ark go towards food, clothing, health care and the education of the children. As you give every day, consider how you can help build an ark for children
