Here's a little update from life here at CCI. To put it simply I've compiled a list of pros and cons:
Pros:
There are too many pros to list
Cons:
We can't keep up with the pros
So with that I'm asking you to please pray for this ministry. Each day I sit and look at all that God is doing and I wonder, "How come people aren't pounding down the door begging to get involved with this?" I guess to many when we share of the things that are happening it's just faceless numbers that they hear about - for us they are our friends and "family."
With that we're working on a couple new campaigns for fundraising. #1 The adopt a village program. We're hoping to break down the project in thousands of little pieces putting faces to numbers and invite people to sponsor a little piece of the project. It's going to be a TON of work but hopefully people can get excited about a $35/month project like this. The short and sweet of it is each village project will partner with a church to train 5 leaders, host camps for 50 campers, sponsor follow-up programs, outreach programs to the families of campers at Easter and Christmas as well as support the churches efforts to replicate this program in the neighboring village. The way the project is unfolding we're pretty confident that churches should reproduce themselves once every 6 or so years. There I go again, a faceless statistic - but just imagine what if our church doubled in size every 6 or 7 years... that would make a real difference to Winkler. Imagine this, there's thousands of vibrant churches just waiting to put this into action. GIVE ME A LOUD SPEAKER MORE PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR ABOUT THIS. But alas, I preach to the choir - all you wonderful people who already care for and support this ministry... Please pray for us... it's so incredibly discouraging to see these opportunities slip by on a daily basis.
Project #2 - it's not big potatoes but it's potatoes none the less... The Kids 4 Kids project. I visited another church this Sunday to get the project rolling there. Basically Sunday Schools are collecting to send kids to camp. We provide them with cool little change collection boxes and they set out a period of time to collect for and kids send kids to camp. It's been really neat to see the excitement this project has been received with. To date about 600-700 campers have been sponsored to go to camp. It's a good start - please pray that we can reach our goal to have 20 churches doing this project by year end.
