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NOTE: WE ARE MAKING A SWITCH! Beginning 2012, Coins for Kids projects will run from January to December so that all your BGMC giving will take place during a calendar year.
How does this affect South Africa — Place of Joy fundraising? We plan to accommodate giving to both projects from January to March 2012 but we want to make sure your offering goes to the project your girls have given toward. If you have a South Africa fund-raiser planned for early 2012, go ahead with it. When you submit your check, please write South Africa on the memo line so that we can record it properly. All offerings for South Africa must be mailed by March 15th, or submitted online by March 30th.
Alaska - The Place of God
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Summer camp is a highlight for almost any elementary school-age kid. Swimming, hiking, horseback riding, and crafts are daily activities. It's a place where new friendships are forged, old friendships are renewed, and - for many - it's the place where Jesus Christ is made real to a life for the first time.
This year's Coins For Kids Project is all about kids camp. But not exactly like the camp described above. Imagine a rugged, remote, unique, and full of wilderness camp where the nearest village is 17 miles, the only way to get there is by boat, and the nearest city is 500 miles by air. Daily life is rugged on the banks of the Yukon River where the average daily temperature for camp is 38 degrees and the facilities consist of drafty tents that are in disrepair and all supplies - including fresh drinking water - must be boated to camp.
Welcome to Western Alaska's Camp "Agaiutim Nune" or Camp AN! It began in 1996 and translated from the Yupik Eskimo language it means ... "The Place of God." The girls and boys that attend this camp are primarily from Alaska's Yupik Eskimo tribes and with a rich heritage in their culture - for many of them - it is a safe week away from abuse and depression where for the first time they will learn of the love and acceptance of Jesus Christ.
It is a place:
•Where campers become aware of God's marvelous creation
•Where every part of the camp experience gives preeminence to the lordship of Jesus Christ
•Where old lives of the campers are made new through the person of the Holy Spirit
•Where prayer and the Word of God bring the solutions to life's problems and questions
•IT IS A PLACE TO MEET WITH GOD
How can Coins For Kids help?
This year we are partnering with U.S. missionaries Jim and Linda Schulz and the Yupik Eskimo children of Western Alaska to provide necessary funds to replace the drafty Camp AN tents - which are in disrepair - with a much needed multi-purpose permanent building for the camp which will serve as a kitchen, chapel, and education center. It will be the main hub of all camp activities.
The effects of Assemblies of God camps are felt all over the world. Missionaries, pastors, evangelists, deacons, Sunday School teachers, and church and civic leaders have come from these camps with a call and anointing of the Holy Spirit upon their lives. Won't it be great to know that as we are faithful to give our CFK dollars, on behalf of the Yupik Eskimo young people, we are partnering in their future as their lives are touched emotionally, physically, and most of all spiritually?
Let's let them know they are not forgotten. God knows each of them by name!
South Africa - Place of Joy
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A Place of Joy: South Africa Cooking Centers
Imagine 10- and 11-year-olds taking care of younger siblings because their mother is too sick to help. Imagine a place where almost everyone is touched by HIV/AIDS.
This is the case in South Africa.
But Coins for Kids wants to bring joy to these children through this year's project - Place of Joy, South Africa.
Missionaries Earl and Laura Goodrich are building Entokozweni Children's Resource Centers in South Africa to help children who are affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS. These resource centers are to be the hands of Christ reaching out to hurting children.
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink ... I was sick and you looked after me" (Matthew 25:35,36, NIV).
What is an Entokozweni Children's Resource Center?
Each center is a partnership between a local church and the Goodriches. The church commits to provide workers for a and then a cooking center is built and equipped with a refrigerator, stove, cookware, all supplies necessary to provide food for the needy children in their community. The cooking center is a key part of the Children's Resource Center that provides a safe place for children for a hot meal, ministry, tutoring, activities, and if needed, counseling. Most of all it provides an environment where children know that they are loved and valued.
Will you help us build more cooking centers by giving to
Coins for Kids this year? When you give to Coins for Kids this year, you will help to build cooking centers for Children's Resource Centers where hundreds of boys and girls can have their physical, emotional, educational, and most importantly, spiritual, needs met. A mere $5,000 will build one cooking center that can reach dozens of children.
Imagine how many cooking centers we can build this year...
How many can your church build?
Coins for Kids Resources
Faith Promise Cards Faith Promise Cards (Español
Labels and Table Topper.zip Labels and Table Topper (Español).zip
Give to the Coins for Kids Project Online!
What is CFK?
Past Coins for Kids Projects
Spanish CFK Video
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