By Ps Karen Gan
Landing in Vijayawada towards the end of July, our team of 5 visited the Champion Kids Home and School. We were again greatly blessed by our time with the children. You can see from the pictures how some of them have grown! They always look happy even though they have little. And that's a blessing to our hearts always!
We were joined by Sarah, a pre-school teacher from Singapore and Dani who recently graduated from Bible College together with her mum Ibu Agung from Indonesia. As we started out with introducing the team, something dawned upon me: AFTER YEARS OF DREAMING AND PRAYING, CHAMPIONKIDS HAS FINALLY ENTERED INTO OUR PROMISED LAND! And tears began to well up in my eyes as I remembered God's faithfulness. At the same time, as Sarah and Dani started sharing, they were also moved to tears and could not hold them back as the Holy Spirit started stirring up compassion and love for these children. They then taught them songs, Scripture and games....What an afternoon! Check out the joy on their faces! :D
Landing in Vijayawada towards the end of July, our team of 5 visited the Champion Kids Home and School. We were again greatly blessed by our time with the children. You can see from the pictures how some of them have grown! They always look happy even though they have little. And that's a blessing to our hearts always!
We were joined by Sarah, a pre-school teacher from Singapore and Dani who recently graduated from Bible College together with her mum Ibu Agung from Indonesia. As we started out with introducing the team, something dawned upon me: AFTER YEARS OF DREAMING AND PRAYING, CHAMPIONKIDS HAS FINALLY ENTERED INTO OUR PROMISED LAND! And tears began to well up in my eyes as I remembered God's faithfulness. At the same time, as Sarah and Dani started sharing, they were also moved to tears and could not hold them back as the Holy Spirit started stirring up compassion and love for these children. They then taught them songs, Scripture and games....What an afternoon! Check out the joy on their faces! :D
Yes, although the school has now moved to the ½ acre plot purchased last year, ChampionKids still does NOT have a school building. At the moment there is a structure that has been constructed which consists of a shed and storeroom, but is now temporarily being used as a classroom and boys quarters. So currently all 10 classes have to share a shed which is only about half the size of a typical classroom in Singapore! The shed itself has just 1 wall with a sheeted metal roof! (See picture below)
The boys (half of the 50 children) are living in the storeroom joined to the shed (see picture above: the room with no door and no window and the ventilation holes in the walls--that's the bedroom of ALL the boys). Most of you who read this would say the room is a comfortable size for 4 beds, but there are over 20 boys squeezed into it. Meanwhile, having no room for the girls, they are staying in a small rented hut on the adjacent plot of land until a home can be built for them. All 50 children and 10 staff are also sharing 1 bathroom and toilet, something unimaginable for many of us!
So right now, we are hoping to start with PHASE 1 of the construction of the 1 Dormitory and Kitchen and 1 Toilet which will cost approximately SGD 50,000. And we really do hope to raise the funds to build adequate dormitories for all the children which will cost another SGD 50.000! Please prayerfully consider contributing to help put a roof over their heads and build good bath and sanitation facilities for the children.
You can support this project by sending a cheque to Youth TransformNations Limited (indicate "ChampionKids School project") at My Singpost Box 880208 Singapore 919191 or for your convenience, click here to contribute online at our website now!
Thank you for your heart for the poor and continued prayers and support towards children through your giving! God bless you and please keep in touch!
Psalm 41:1-3
Blessed is he who considers the poor;
The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the earth;
You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will sustain him on his sickbed.
So right now, we are hoping to start with PHASE 1 of the construction of the 1 Dormitory and Kitchen and 1 Toilet which will cost approximately SGD 50,000. And we really do hope to raise the funds to build adequate dormitories for all the children which will cost another SGD 50.000! Please prayerfully consider contributing to help put a roof over their heads and build good bath and sanitation facilities for the children.
You can support this project by sending a cheque to Youth TransformNations Limited (indicate "ChampionKids School project") at My Singpost Box 880208 Singapore 919191 or for your convenience, click here to contribute online at our website now!
Thank you for your heart for the poor and continued prayers and support towards children through your giving! God bless you and please keep in touch!
Psalm 41:1-3
Blessed is he who considers the poor;
The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the earth;
You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will sustain him on his sickbed.
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