Urban Report

Sponsor a Child

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Participants: Yvonne Lewis (Host), Shalini David

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Program Code: UBR000153A


00:01 There are children across the world
00:02 that are in tremendous need, stay tuned to meet a woman
00:06 whose team is doing something about it.
00:08 My name is Yvonne Lewis
00:10 and you're watching Urban Report.
00:36 Hello and welcome to Urban Report.
00:39 My guest today is Shalini David,
00:41 President and CEO of Christalis Inc.
00:44 Welcome to Urban Report Shalini.
00:47 Thank you.
00:48 So, tell us about Christalis, what is Christalis?
00:52 Christalis is an Organization
00:54 made up of all volunteers
00:56 and it's our mission to show children who are victims
00:59 of various injustices, our love
01:01 and we do this by not only providing for their basic needs
01:04 but we want to give them emotional support,
01:06 we want to give them security, we want to give them affection,
01:09 we want to give them opportunities to succeed
01:12 a strong family
01:13 and most importantly the knowledge of Christ.
01:15 Amen, and where are you doing this?
01:18 We're in Uganda right now.
01:19 In Uganda? Yes.
01:21 And what are you providing specifically for the kids?
01:25 So we have a few projects in our Home
01:28 which is an orphanage so it's a physical building
01:31 and our children live there we have a mother-figure,
01:34 a father-figure, some aunts that help,
01:37 and there, they get everything you would give your child
01:40 in your own Home, they get education,
01:42 they get food, they get clothing,
01:44 they get healthcare,
01:46 they have morning and evening worship,
01:48 they go to school, they have chore time,
01:51 they have play time, they have study time,
01:53 they get into trouble,
01:55 so everything you would give them... we give them there
01:59 and then we treat every child individually,
02:01 sometimes we get our children at thirteen
02:04 and they've never learned their ABCs,
02:06 so we give them extra tutoring
02:07 many children come to our Home without getting any healthcare,
02:11 so, as soon as they come, we take them for a Physical,
02:14 find out if they have any issues
02:15 and get them any extra care they might need,
02:17 so that's in our Home,
02:19 and then we also provide children who are
02:22 outside of our Home-care because
02:23 in our Home we are able to give them everything
02:25 that we would give our kids but outside the Home,
02:28 they live in dire poverty sometimes,
02:30 so they're not able to stay in school,
02:32 they have to help to work for their food,
02:35 or they live with their grandparents who are very old
02:39 and they have to take care of them,
02:40 so we try to give them money to go to school,
02:43 money for bedding, money for healthcare
02:44 just for whatever their needs might be,
02:46 without taking them out of their family that they're in,
02:49 and then... on down the area we found
02:52 our children and Evon, who is our Director there,
02:55 had found that there were kids in the area
02:57 who were not eating every day, and our children too
02:59 would notice... when they come Home to eat lunch,
03:01 that their kids were not going Home for lunch
03:03 because they live so far away so Evon started a Meal Program
03:08 where we give lunch and dinner
03:09 for children who aren't able to eat every day.
03:12 How beautiful, how beautiful that you are caring
03:14 for these children who are not being cared for anywhere.
03:18 I mean, they're really not... you have the orphanage,
03:22 so they don't have parents, then you have community children
03:26 whose needs are not being met,
03:28 and so you have children who are just in dire need in Uganda
03:34 how many children are in the Home?
03:36 In the Home right now, we have about 23
03:40 and we can go up 31 but by the grace of God,
03:44 we are getting at a point where our children are growing up
03:47 and they're graduating out
03:49 so right now we have three or four of our children
03:52 who graduated out so we're at about 23 right now
03:54 and then in our Assistance Program
03:57 we are probably about 60 plus
03:59 and then in our Meal Program about 15 to 20.
04:02 Whoa! that is such a beautiful, beautiful undertaking,
04:07 and we have some pictures that we want to put up
04:10 to show what's going on there and just...
04:13 so tell us, who is in the picture
04:15 and give us a little bit of background.
04:17 Sure, sure, this picture... ah, makes me so happy
04:20 because these are two students from the
04:21 Associated Students of Walla Walla University,
04:23 so they came Home to our Orphanage,
04:27 that's our Orphanage right now
04:28 and one of our little babies who was there
04:30 for a little... short time,
04:32 but they came there last September
04:34 and this Student Group
04:36 actually made one of our dreams come true,
04:38 we've been renting a Home for the last ten years
04:42 then... one year when our lease ran out
04:44 the landlord said, they wanted to sell the Home,
04:46 so we had to find a Home to house 30 kids
04:49 in like a short amount of time
04:51 luckily... God... God is amazing all the time
04:54 Yes. He found us a Home
04:56 down the street but for a long time
04:57 we kind of knew, "Okay, we need a Home of our own
05:01 instead of renting" and so we would pray about it
05:03 and Evon is the one who lives there most of the year
05:05 so she knew that that need was really immediate
05:08 but for me... and we're all nurses,
05:10 all of us Co-founders are nurses,
05:12 for me it was just such a huge
05:13 like... undertaking I was thinking,
05:15 "How will we do this, we're nurses... "
05:17 my father has done a building project before
05:19 I knew everything that went into it,
05:21 and it just seemed impossible so I would just pray every day
05:24 I would pray, "God in heaven,
05:26 please help us get a big house
05:27 that's just perfect for all of us
05:29 where we don't have to worry about anything
05:31 raising money or capital campaign
05:32 or building or engineers or anything like that,"
05:35 and that's what I would pray everyday
05:36 and um... but you know our God
05:39 He is not the God of the possible,
05:40 He's the God of the impossible,
05:42 and last year in May,
05:43 the Associated students of Walla Walla
05:46 they chose to help us build our Home,
05:48 I don't know where,
05:49 we didn't know them, they didn't know us,
05:51 somebody knew about us
05:52 and they were looking for a project
05:54 and they told them and within two weeks,
05:56 they chose us amongst six other groups and
05:57 it was just such a miracle
06:00 and they came with their own group of architectural students
06:04 and engineers and people who had built in other countries
06:09 and gave us advice about building and about our plan
06:13 and everything like that and they also...
06:15 the student group committed to raising a $100,000
06:18 towards our project,
06:20 and it was just... you know it's...
06:21 it was just that little step of faith or encouragement
06:26 that these students brought to us, it's like,
06:29 "Okay, we can do this, God can make it happen for us"
06:33 and also the fact that God knew what your needs were
06:37 and He met the need, you didn't even know...
06:39 you didn't know about them, they found out about you,
06:42 I mean, look at God,
06:43 look at how much He cares about us
06:46 and what we're doing. Yeah.
06:48 Danny Shelton has written this book called,
06:51 "The Blessing is on the GO!"
06:53 and when we step out in faith
06:55 and do... and just... we're available to do God's will
06:59 God makes Himself responsible for it
07:02 and He honors that, and He blesses your efforts
07:05 and look at what happened, these students came,
07:08 architectural students, engineering students,
07:12 I mean, that is incredible, that's incredible,
07:15 oh yeah, God took care of it,
07:18 Yeah. He took care of it,
07:21 let's look at another picture, who is that?
07:23 those are... that is the whole student group
07:25 the representatives from
07:26 the Associate Students of Walla Walla.
07:28 Oh, good, good.
07:30 This is Bilaku and he is from our Assistance Program
07:34 so he is one of our...
07:35 he's our second child with disabilities,
07:37 he has hearing and speech disabilities,
07:39 his mom abandoned him when he was an infant,
07:42 and so his grandma has been caring for him ever since
07:45 but she doesn't have the money
07:46 you can see... like where they live,
07:47 it's not great and so she did not have the money
07:50 to give him special education so she had come to us for help
07:54 and we had a sponsor who had contacted me
07:58 actually a few months before we had his request,
08:01 and she had said that she was looking to help somebody
08:04 with disabilities, and so I told her,
08:09 "At this time we don't have any projects like that"
08:11 I actually referred her to another Organization
08:13 and then Evon told us about this child
08:16 and she said, "But the money is a lot more than normal
08:19 because it's for special needs and
08:21 we don't know if we'll get a sponsor for that"
08:23 and then I immediately thought of her and I called her,
08:25 and she said that she couldn't afford it
08:27 but she'll see what she can do
08:28 and she rounded up her friends and family
08:30 and together they sponsored that child and now he goes
08:33 to a special school and he's doing really well
08:35 and he's just such a happy child.
08:38 Oh, that's so great, that's so great, praise the Lord
08:41 God is good. God is so good.
08:43 Praise the Lord, let's look at another one.
08:45 Those are our boys...
08:47 those are our boys in the Home,
08:49 I just love this picture because this makes me happy
08:51 when I see it so I turned this in,
08:52 and Peter is one of the boys in that picture,
08:56 and Peter actually lost his dad when he was young
09:00 and he was not able to go to school
09:04 the caretaker/guardian was not able to care for him
09:06 and brought him to our Home to take care of,
09:10 oh, you know, it's so... for me...
09:15 as I listen to stories about
09:17 children that have to live on the streets
09:20 or they have no one to care for them,
09:24 it's unfathomable to me that a child would have no one
09:29 around to take care of them, and what do they do
09:34 and how do they eat and how do they...
09:36 what do they do to survive?
09:39 You know, I've heard stories about
09:41 children as young as three and four,
09:44 just in the garbage heaps and
09:46 I just cannot wrap my mind around that,
09:49 it's such a painful thought
09:52 and here is Christalis
09:55 and I praise the Lord for Organizations like yours
09:58 that are reaching out to these children that are in need
10:02 and filling that need and God tells us to do that
10:05 and you are meeting that need
10:07 and that's just beautiful
10:09 to know that... and you're offering
10:11 not just the physical needs but spiritual as well
10:16 and that is... to train up these children
10:19 from a young age about Jesus,
10:21 that's tremendous.
10:23 Yeah, and it's a blessing to just see it come to fruition
10:27 like, you'll see later in a picture but we have
10:30 our son, Manasi, he came to us, he was...
10:33 he lost his parents when he was maybe three- or four-years old,
10:38 he was in Rwanda, and his parents died
10:41 so his grandma came to get him and his siblings
10:43 and brought him back but she wasn't able to care for
10:46 all of them so she put them in different Homes
10:48 and they would work for their uncle and get food
10:51 and Manasi would go to school
10:53 but he didn't have anyone to pay for his education,
10:55 so the principal took him off the roster so he could study
10:59 and the teachers would get him old books
11:02 and somehow he would get by
11:04 but he couldn't go to the next level for school
11:06 and he wasn't with his grandma and...
11:09 so when we opened up, they brought him to us
11:12 and so he was with us and now... last year in November
11:15 he graduated from Bugema Adventist University
11:18 with a Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education
11:22 and he's a teacher now, Ohhh...
11:25 and I share this because you were talking about
11:28 ministering to them spiritually and where he is now
11:32 he teaches in a local school
11:33 and he meets a lot of kids who don't know about Jesus
11:36 and he witnesses to them and he wrote to me one day
11:39 and he said, "You know, I used to hate it
11:41 when Mama Evon," he calls her Mama,
11:44 "used to make them study the
11:46 Scriptures on Saturday afternoon"
11:47 Now, Evon is the Headmistress at the school?
11:50 she's the Director of Uganda, of all our projects in Uganda,
11:53 she's the Executive Director there
11:55 but she lives there most of the year
11:56 she's a nurse too, so she comes and works here
11:58 three months out of the year and gets her money to go back
12:01 she doesn't want to take any other money,
12:03 she says, this is her commitment
12:06 and she is the one who cares for all the kids
12:08 and runs all the projects there.
12:10 So she's there on a voluntary basis,
12:12 she makes her money here and then goes and stays there...
12:15 yes and gives away most of her money too
12:18 she's amazing, she was here
12:21 and when we told her about the projects
12:23 we had just started, she gave up Home,
12:25 and she gave up her car,
12:27 and gave up everything and moved there
12:28 and actually she's the one who started everything
12:30 and she truly lives by faith.
12:33 Amen, that's tremendous and I'm sure she has
12:36 miracle story after miracle story
12:39 because God, again, honors...
12:41 when we do things like that, He honors those sacrifices
12:46 so I know that, so, back to Manasi, so...
12:49 Right, so he used to say he used to hate it
12:52 when she would make him study Scriptures on Saturday
12:54 but now he's so grateful for it and he's like asking for tips
12:58 on how to witness to people of different faiths
13:02 and he's just so on fire to evangelize
13:05 it's just so nice to hear that and see that,
13:07 you know back then...
13:08 when you raise the kids growing up
13:10 you don't really think, "Okay, they don't want to do stuff"
13:13 but then it makes a difference, as you grow up
13:16 and it's just amazing.
13:17 How old is he now?
13:19 He's probably about 23 or 24 right now
13:22 and for our kids, you know, like I said earlier,
13:25 we sometimes... we get them at 13
13:27 and they're just learning so they're not able
13:30 at 18 to take care of themselves
13:32 because they're not able to reach
13:34 what we would normally, here, at 18 or their early 20s reach,
13:37 so, it's our desire that we don't push them out of the Home
13:40 until they're able to be self-sufficient,
13:43 so, Manasi is our poster child, happy story
13:46 but then there are other children who have challenges,
13:48 a lot more challenges, we had our son, Shibenze,
13:51 his uncle used to do voodoo on him
13:53 so it affected him way beyond
13:55 even the times that he used to do it
13:58 it would come to him a lot,
14:00 like during school times and exams
14:02 so all our children would pray around him,
14:03 and his teachers didn't think he would make it
14:06 or if he would finish, but we made it,
14:08 we prayed him through and he got a certificate in travel
14:12 and hotel management and he became a cook in the city
14:16 and he had a certificate course and now he's trying to earn up
14:19 to get a degree in it, and for our children,
14:23 that's our... one of our mission is
14:24 we want to give them every opportunity that they can have
14:27 to have their dreams come true,
14:28 so we're trying to work and see if we can get some extra funding
14:32 to help him go for his degree and Manasi, go for his Master's.
14:35 Oh, that is... that's so awesome
14:38 these are such great stories really
14:40 because it just makes you think, "Look at God,
14:43 look at how God is working on behalf of these children"
14:47 who, if you had not intervened,
14:50 who would care for these children?
14:52 Where would they be if Christalis hadn't been there
14:56 where would they be?
14:57 God sent Christalis into that situation
15:01 to make a difference,
15:02 we have some more pictures, let's see, let's take a look.
15:05 This is one of our student missionaries
15:08 Walla Walla University also sent us three student missionaries,
15:11 and Bryson, he came and represented the ASWWU Team
15:16 for about three to six months
15:18 to help us with the building project
15:19 so not only do they come once, but they send someone to help us
15:22 throughout the whole process.
15:23 Oh nice, so they didn't just make one visit,
15:26 Yeah. they came...
15:28 they came and visited and then they kind of saw you through
15:31 the project as well?
15:33 Yes, yes. That is amazing.
15:35 Yes, so amazing. That's amazing.
15:37 I notice that we also have a video that you sent us
15:42 and I really like for our Viewers to see that
15:44 to see just what... kind of the whole picture of the school
15:50 and then you can comment on it, after the video.
15:54 Christalis,
15:58 Our desire is to give victimized children
15:59 basic needs love of family,
16:01 knowledge of Christ,
16:04 I heard about the orphan children in Uganda,
16:07 that there were a lot of children on the street
16:10 who would benefit if they were in a Home
16:14 many Homes that I went to,
16:16 very old, old, grandmothers
16:18 with their grandchildren
16:20 and their children are nowhere to be found
16:23 they have no meals, their sauce is water with salt
16:27 we could help those kids, our Home is like a family
16:31 in that, first physically, it's in one Home,
16:35 initially when we started the Home,
16:36 the kids were excited
16:38 because they were going to sleep in a bed
16:40 and a mattress, they were getting food,
16:43 that they were getting three times a day
16:45 that was too much food, is what they felt like.
16:47 Our children are orphaned due to various reasons
16:50 abandonment, rebel killings, AIDS,
16:53 Gracie was abandoned by a trash pile
16:56 when she was an infant,
16:57 we found her frail and brought to us
16:59 at six months' old but with the love of our Home
17:01 and constant medical care, she is a healthy seven-year old
17:04 and we are the only family that she knows.
17:06 At five-years old, Manasi had to walk with his bare feet
17:11 with his family from Congo to Rwanda,
17:13 his parents were victims of genocide,
17:15 and his grandmother took him and his siblings
17:17 and put them in different Homes
17:19 to work as servants for their food,
17:20 he tried to go to school, but couldn't pay the fees
17:22 so the teachers brought him to us
17:24 and we are so proud to say
17:27 that he is going to be our first college graduate next year
17:30 no child should have to suffer
17:32 because they do not have the love of a parent
17:34 because you see, James 1:27 says, "That's our job"
17:38 now, everyone may not be able to leave their lives behind
17:41 and help every child, but we can be your eyes
17:44 and we can be your hands to care them.
17:47 My reason for supporting Christalis is
17:50 when I was in 3rd grade, World Vision paid for my school
17:54 from third grade to tenth grade
17:56 and that was a big help for me and my family
17:59 they said, "Look at that kid with long shorts and big ears,"
18:03 and that was me so, it's only fair that
18:06 now that I can afford it,
18:08 I can pay that back to some child
18:10 who really needs an education.
18:12 We have children of our own and it's nice to show them
18:16 how to give to others.
18:17 Through God's blessings and the love of our parents,
18:20 we didn't lack a lot of things growing up.
18:22 Christalis provides us an opportunity
18:24 to give back a little bit,
18:25 the blessings that we have been given.
18:27 I joined Christalis because...
18:30 I joined Christalis because,
18:32 so I just wanted to, in turn,
18:34 make my little impact for the world, I guess.
18:38 I see how providing them with monetary funds
18:42 so that they can receive education
18:45 or they can receive food, goes a long way.
18:47 Christalis is a 100 percent volunteer run
18:50 everything that you do directly affects these kids
18:54 and you could be a part of something
18:56 that you know will change the world.
18:58 If you feel like you want to make a difference,
19:02 you should definitely join the Christalis family.
19:05 Now, please join us
19:06 in participating in this great cause.
19:08 www. christalis. org sponsor, donate, volunteer, pray
19:16 Oh, so everything is volunteer-run?
19:18 Yes.
19:20 There are no administrative costs per se?
19:23 So, this year we started with employing somebody
19:27 just for Admin for few hours a week
19:29 because as we've grown and we're helping more children,
19:32 we had to do that but everything, like,
19:34 we have volunteers that help us on this side
19:36 with our projects on that side,
19:38 and we have staff in Uganda, and Evon is a volunteer
19:42 as you said and so but mostly it's all volunteers
19:47 people give up their time every week,
19:49 two to four hours, six hours per week,
19:52 we have five to eight solid volunteers per week
19:54 but we go up to 20 which is also a blessing
19:56 because we've been around now... ten years
19:58 and the first five years it was mostly me and my mom
20:01 and Evon and our Operating Board
20:03 but in the last five years, God has been so amazing
20:07 it was our desire to help more children
20:09 and he brought...
20:11 he helped us grow in the last five years to 20 volunteers
20:14 and it just helped us, helps us network,
20:17 helps us get more sponsors, helps us do more things
20:20 to raise more money for our children
20:22 but we really couldn't get by without them.
20:24 Oh! that's so incredible, how can one become a sponsor,
20:29 what do you have to do and how much is it
20:31 and what do you get for your money?
20:34 Sure, so can contact us via our website
20:37 or call us, e-mail us.
20:38 And what's your website?
20:40 It's just: Christalis. org
20:42 so, Christalis. org
20:46 Okay. and you can...
20:48 so it's different levels of sponsorship,
20:50 because in the Home, obviously there are more needs
20:53 because we're taking care of a lot more
20:54 for the children in our home,
20:56 so right now we have our needs
20:58 for children to be sponsored at $40 per month
21:02 or $80 per month,
21:03 it really takes about $150 per month,
21:05 but we ask Sponsors to either do $120 or $60
21:09 or $40 or $80 and together sponsor
21:12 these children,
21:13 and then in the Assistance Program,
21:15 it costs $40 for kids who are about high-school age
21:18 and $20 for kids who are elementary-school age per month
21:22 and then our Meal Program it really doesn't take a lot,
21:25 if you miss one meal a month going out,
21:28 you can feed a child for a month,
21:29 so just $12 a month for our Meal Program.
21:32 Twelve dollars a month for the Meal Program
21:36 and what does that get the person who is sponsoring?
21:39 So for the Sponsors,
21:41 when you sponsor a child specifically,
21:43 you will get a Report Card,
21:44 you will get a letter from them every year,
21:47 you'll get their picture,
21:48 and you can communicate back to them
21:50 our children love it
21:51 when they get letters from their Sponsors
21:53 when they get pictures of their Sponsor's family
21:56 it really... it makes them feel loved,
21:59 it makes them feel motivated, it's a different thing
22:02 us telling them to study hard,
22:03 and it's a different thing the Sponsor saying,
22:05 "I believe in you, I want you to... "
22:07 you just take a few minutes out of your day to write a letter
22:10 and you can change the life of a child.
22:13 So, that's beautiful, so now for the $12
22:15 what does the Sponsor...
22:18 what is the impact on the child for the $12?
22:21 So for the Meal Program, you don't necessarily
22:23 sponsor one child because it's a lot like a
22:25 Soup Kitchen, where the children come,
22:28 we have Regulars that we try to transition
22:30 into our Assistance Program but it's just...
22:32 it feeds them two meals a day for a month,
22:34 the $12 per month.
22:36 So for... anybody can do $12 a month,
22:42 I mean, that's really not much
22:46 and for that, you're giving a child
22:48 two meals a day, for a month, that's amazing!
22:52 And even in our Home, because you mentioned that
22:55 we know that everyone wants to help kids
22:58 and we realize that not everyone can afford it,
23:01 so for College Students that are in College,
23:03 or maybe are in Grad School, or you're in High School
23:06 and you want a part of this, doesn't mean you can't help,
23:08 so we have a Student Pledge
23:10 where if you're in College you can pledge $10 per month,
23:12 and if you're in High school, $5 per month,
23:15 and you can help these children just wherever you are.
23:19 I think that so often we don't realize
23:24 how impactful a few dollars can be
23:28 you know, a lot of times people will say,
23:31 "Well, I can't give $50 a month or $100 a month
23:36 I don't have it like that
23:37 so I'm just not going to give anything,
23:40 no, whatever you can give means something
23:42 Yes, yes. and I'm sure that also
23:45 somebody just wants to make a one-time donation,
23:47 you'll be open to receiving that as well.
23:50 Yes, it's the one-time donations that really get us through
23:52 because like I said, sponsorship really doesn't
23:55 cover everything we try to make it affordable
23:57 so we can have sponsors for these kids,
24:00 but it's the one-time donations
24:01 that really carries through the year.
24:03 And no amount is too small, right?
24:05 because if somebody sends you $5 or $20, or...
24:08 Or a dime, my daughter collects change
24:10 and she gives me ten cents and a penny
24:11 and I deposit that under her name
24:13 in our Accounting and it really does help,
24:16 we had a seven-year old, I think she's seven or eight
24:18 and she collected money
24:20 and she collected throughout the year
24:22 and collected a $100 or $120 and donated it
24:26 because she wanted to help these kids
24:29 so anyone can give whatever they want
24:31 and if you don't even have a penny to give,
24:34 you can give your time because like I said,
24:36 my daughter's five, she volunteers for us
24:39 and even... there are people in California,
24:42 other places, if you have an hour
24:44 or half an hour or two hours of your time,
24:46 you can do that and even if you don't have that,
24:48 we have prayer partners and we give you our prayer list
24:51 and prayer is powerful,
24:53 it's how we're doing what we're doing,
24:55 you can help us pray so nothing is impossible.
24:58 Yes, yes, so how would a volunteer
25:01 volunteer their time from here,
25:03 like what would they do to help?
25:06 From here, I know it's hard to believe
25:08 but there's so much help we need
25:10 just because we're volunteering, we don't have an office,
25:12 we don't have staff, everyone goes to work
25:15 so volunteers actually help with everything,
25:17 they help with Admin, they help with fundraising,
25:19 they help with our graphic design,
25:20 and they help with our development,
25:22 they help with everything that runs our Organization.
25:27 So you need people to say, "Look, I might not have money,
25:32 but I can give you a couple of hours a week or
25:35 an hour a week or a couple of hours a month
25:37 or... it can really make a difference for you.
25:40 It can, it's a child's difference,
25:43 sometimes one volunteer is what it takes to help another child,
25:47 and there are also opportunities to volunteer there
25:50 if you're looking for a commitment of three years
25:53 or six months or a year,
25:55 we are happy to have volunteers go there
25:57 and help us with our different projects.
25:59 That's awesome, what's your biggest need right now?
26:02 Our biggest "one need" is hard to pick
26:05 but we have our building project,
26:09 where we're trying to raise the last $15,000
26:11 that's a huge need.
26:13 Ahh... that's important, we should talk about that a bit
26:16 because... so this building project...
26:18 all you need now is $15,000 to complete the project.
26:23 Yes, yes, and then we could get in there maybe before Christmas,
26:25 then our kids can celebrate in the Home,
26:27 that would be great if we could have that.
26:29 So that's one of our big needs
26:31 the other big need that's very immediate
26:33 also has just brought it more immediate
26:36 because we're getting ready to go into the home is
26:38 we've always needed a vehicle, we have no vehicle
26:40 for our kids and we feed... usually feed about...
26:44 like over 60 mouths per day and then we usually
26:48 go buy groceries and then its... we used to go on a bicycle
26:51 our father-figure would go back and forth
26:53 carrying these big bags of groceries and then
26:55 finally we employed like a motor bike
26:56 that would take it back and forth,
26:58 and now that we're going, we're up in the hills
27:02 and there are no paved roads, so it gets...
27:04 when it gets muddy, when it's raining,
27:06 the mud is very slippery,
27:07 Evon has fallen off her bike many times going up there
27:10 and so we could really use a vehicle
27:12 to help take the kids to school, to church, to the clinic,
27:16 get groceries, that is...
27:19 to get a used vehicle, it's about $15,000 to $20,000
27:22 but that is a need that...
27:23 it was kind of like in the background
27:25 but now it's like ahh! we need it.
27:27 Well, our Viewers, I'm sure
27:30 will respond to that need on some level,
27:33 many of them want to know what they can do
27:35 and will do it, and thank you so much
27:37 for your commitment and all that you're doing
27:40 for the cause of Christ.
27:41 Thank you. Thank you...
27:42 You know in the new King James Version
27:45 James 1:27 says, "Pure and undefiled religion
27:48 before God and the Father is this:
27:50 to visit orphans and widows in their trouble,
27:53 and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. "
27:55 Thank you so much for joining us,
27:57 join us next time, it wouldn't be the same...
27:59 without you.


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