Mother’s Day Project 2011, Ongoing Need

Restoring Children to their Families

This Mother’s Day, we’ll all be thinking about the love and comfort our mothers bring to our lives, or what they meant to us when they were with us.  We’ll thank God for all they have added to our lives.

This Mother’s Day, we want to give you an opportunity to participate in an especially meaningful project that is so effectively restoring children to their mothers. 

For several years, the street kids we are helping in Congo have been organizing skits to let others know what it’s really like to live on the street.  A plastic sack as your only bed.  A few sticks stuck in the ground as your only shelter.  Dirty.  Despised.  Unloved.

Whenever they have done these skits in local churches, people’s hearts have been moved.  In every crowd, there have been parents listening who know their own kids are on the street.  Some blamed the parents for the family’s poverty and ran away.  Some left under duress.  Some were actually kicked out.  Some were accused of being witches when the family ran into hard times.

These parents have been stirred to go out to the streets and try to bring their children back home.  It has sometimes taken some serious searching, but they have ended up finding their children!  It has sometimes taken some begging on the parents’ part, for relations were not happy when the children left.  But in many cases, they have ended up finding their children and bringing them back home.

Of course, there’s always damage.  Two girls, 12 and 14,  who recently returned home, were already into prostitution.  But they came back.  Families were restored.  Forgiveness was sought.  New beginnings were made.

As we’ve been thinking about this project, we feel STRONGLY that we need to expand it in a serious way.  Our experience has shown us that many kids are on the street alone who have parents.  They could be restored to their families if only the parents tried.  And God has shown us a very effective way to make that happen.  He is using the kids themselves to help other kids who are living on the streets.

What do we need to expand this project?  Transportation.  A car would seriously help.  Short of that, funds for transportation would also take them out to other churches.  That’s it.  That’s all it takes.

EVERY SINGLE TIME they go, families are reunited.  Street kids are restored to their mothers.  What an amazing Mother’s Day gift!

We’ve never asked for Mother’s Day gifts before, but this project is doing SO MUCH to restore families, that we felt we should give you the opportunity to participate in it.

If you’d like to help restore a lonely street child to his or her mother and family, here’s your chance.

Designate gifts to the “Restore a Family” project.  And tell a friend.  Others might want to help, too.

Have a Blessed Mother’s Day!

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