WHAT DO OTHERS THINK OF US?

A student at Columbia Union College wrote an interesting blog about her experience visiting New Hope. Click here to read what she wrote.

NEW HOPE SCHOOL IN MOZAMBIQUE

Americans consider education to be a right that all children are entitled to, but in other countries around the world such as Mozambique, education comes at a cost that countless families are unable to afford. During New Hope’s S.o.S. mission trip to Mozambique in July 2008, we saw what happens to a country whose citizens are uneducated. About 20 years of civil war has left an entire generation illiterate, uneducated and unable to pull themselves out of the extreme poverty and difficulty in which they and their children are now living.

The school that New Hope’s team helped build during the mission trip to Mozambique in July 2008 is now completed and scheduled to open in February 2009! On our last day in Mozambique, we paid one last visit to the school that we helped build. We were disturbed to learn that most of the children in the surrounding neighborhood would not be able to afford the tuition to attend the school that they faithfully watched us build for 2½ weeks. We decided that this could not be! New Hope’s S.o.S. missions board has formed a student scholarship program that will enable us to sponsor students to attend the school.

Click here to read the full story at the New Hope SOS blog.

MORE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PASTOR KUMAR

I just got back from the first night of Winterhaven. There are 28 guests and a ton of things that we still need. Here are the most pressing:

1. Need 2 night time monitors on Saturday from 10:30pm - 7:30am. Requires males.

2. Breakfast set up around 5am.

3. Extra hands to help for a couple hours during the meals, etc. any night this week from 6:30-9pm.

Please personally call me on my cell phone 301.502.8566 or reply on this message, if you can help in any way. Thanks!

Pastor Kumar