After many months BFO has a means of raising funds for the specific needs of individual children. This can be done by sponsoring a child and paying via paypal through a website. Dave Scheier in America, friend and supporter of BFO has put together a website called OrphanList.org.
Your monthly sponsorship of a child at BFO will cover their monthly living expenses including food and school fees. 100% of all sponsorships donated goes straight to the Orphanage. Please check out OrphanList.org and prayerfully consider sponsoring an Orphan.
Giving them a future in life through Bible Faith Orphanage.
The February 2011 newsletter from Bible Faith Orphanage is available to view or download from here. Please take a look at what God is doing there.
Praise God…
- A website has been created for BFO.
- The older children are beginning to understand the importance of cleanliness and to help wash the younger children.
- The boys’ choir is established and doing well.
- School feels are being provided for.
Please pray for…
- Funds to keep widows and deserted wives busy helping with the BFO children.
- Musical instruments for the children to learn to play.
- Provision for the remainder of the school fees.
- Volunteers to assist the kindergarten aged children.
- Provision of funds to purchase food.
- Aunty Rosa and helpers that God will continue to enable them in the face of many hardships.
- Funds and property to purchase a ‘home’ for the BFO children.
Why cant training for a half marathon be half easy? I guess it is really. In August there is a half marathon which Im headin down to – not to compete in – just to finish! The farthest I remember running in my life was with Mark Wilson, in Whangarei. I was probably in my 20′s and we did about 10km…….. so for me this is a big effort at twice the age.
Im using a cool app called Runkeeper to log the running (and occasional cycling) Im doing to build up to what seems a little closer than impossible 21km. Here is a cycle trip I did today around Cairns:
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Our latest newsletter is now available to view or download. Highlights are Learning Technologies staff beginning in Papua New Guinea and Arnhem Land, Cyclone Yasi and family updates. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter by email let me know….
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Cyclone Yasi on the left - Cyclone Tracy on right was Australia's most destructive with 250kmh winds.
Yeh so we arrived home from New Zealand last night about 24 hours before Cyclone Yasi is expected to make landfall somewhere between Cairns and Cardwell.
Links we are following:
BOM Radar – Cairns Weather – http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR191.loop.shtml
BOM Cyclone tracking Map – http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml
ABC News Clyclone Yasi Blog – http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/cyclone-yasi/
Google Cyclone and Flood Map – http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/queensland_floods.html
NOAA Infrared Satellite Loop – http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemiloops/shirgmscol.html
Cyclone Yasi forming – http://www.theweatherchaser.com/videos/201101-tropical-cyclone-yasi
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Well we are in Nampa, Idaho for the next couple of months. I will be working at the MAF-US office with the MAF-Learning technologies team in preparation for getting MAF-LT involved with ministries and isolated church leaders within the Asia Pacific region.
Its so different here to anything else we know or have experienced! Here are some pictures since arriving:
The Poople - covered in snow at Baker City
It got pretty cold on the drive from Portland (Celsius)
Nearly home....
Home in Idaho - 16536 Frisco Ave, Caldwell, Idaho
Frisco Ave, not many life forms visible
Snow covered mountains on the way to the office
Idaho wildlife
other Idaho wildlife - heavily insulated!
Jaimee catching snow in our backyard.
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