Amount needed: $25,000 Already raised: $10,935
This van will enable our Child Sponsorship Team to take supplies to refugee kids and their families in camps and settlements. There is more info available online about this
vital project. If your church would like a bulletin insert, contact our office and we’ll email you one. Donate on our website to this fund on the right side under “Donate.”
School started this month in Iraq and our team has been furiously assembling hundreds of backpacks and buying school uniforms for the kids in our Refugee Child Sponsorship Program. A very special thank you to all who donated so these kids can go to school! Since we have kids coming into the program all year, this fund is always open for more donations.
Actually we can’t think of a better example of how our team will use the van which is currently one of our fundraising projects. Would you pray for our team there as they meet with kids and their families this month? Next month our US team will join them ministering in the refugee camps handing out food packets and more Refugee Trauma Kits. Visit our website to see pictures & videos of this distribution as we add updates.
To sponsor a child in Iraq or Egypt for $39/month, please visit our website or call our office.
Iraq Child Sponsorship Program Update
Refugee kids in program 300
Kids sponsored 205
Last month was very busy for our team in Northern Iraq. They engaged in food distributions in refugee camps and held meetings with singing, games and Bible lessons for the kids.
Also distributed were the Trauma Kits with a 18” plush animal (pictured, right, with one of the boys) with a solar powered player with the Bible in Arabic and Kurdish. They include a booklet with helps for the kids and the emotional trauma they are working through. Last month we shipped over 352 more animals with the Bible and 180 baby blankets. Thank you so much to each of you who have given funds to make it possible for the children and their parents to hear the Bible! Ladies, thank you for all the beautiful baby blankets you’ve sewn!
We have 300 kids in the program with 111 waiting for a sponsor. Would you prayerfully consider sponsoring one of these precious refugee kids and be part of changing a life for eternity? A sponsorship is only $39/month and you can sign up on our website in a jiffy!
Over the past four months we held the annual fundraiser to get our Iraqi and Syrian refugee kids ready for school with fully-equipped backpacks, school uniforms and shoes and socks. Your response has been heartwarming and overwhelming! Thank you!!! To date sponsors, youth groups, VBS kids and our partnering churches have given $8,900 to this fund. This is above the amount of $39/month sponsorship. Now our team is even busier buying all the above and distributing them in the next few weeks. They love it, though, don’t worry! We will feature this fundraiser in our Christmas catalogue and keep the fund going all year for the new kids entering the program, most of whom are coming out of Syria.
There is more info available online about this vital project. If your church would like a bulletin insert, contact our office and we’ll email you one. Thank you for being the hands and feet of Christ to these hurting children and their families! You can donate on our website to this fund on the right side under “Donate.”
Kurdistan Iraq – The day broke with clear blue skies and the 111 degree heat soon followed. That afternoon in the week of July 23rd, the IM Iraqi team arrived at a refugee camp for a time of worship, songs and a message from the Word.
Since 2014, the relationship between the church and the camps has been growing. IM has partnered with them both, bringing them together through many relief supplies over the years to several camps including this one. With so many families’ fate still in the balance and nowhere to go, they welcome the friendships, encouragement and the help for their children through the Refugee Child Sponsorship Program.
Pastor Sabri shared about the feeding of the 5,000, and how the faith of the little boy was used by Jesus to bless many. Our faith must be like that of a child, he explained, and then after sharing the Gospel, asked for those who wanted forgiveness for their sins and ask Christ into their lives to stand. Every one of the approximately 125 in the room stood. Men, women and children who live together in this refugee camp found salvation that day.
An hour later as the team called the IM Colorado Springs office to share this news, we were overjoyed! What a day of rejoicing and praise at seeing so many respond to the message! Would you pray with us over their new spiritual journey? The church team is working on meeting with the new believers in Bible study as often as logistics and resources will allow.
This is exactly why we felt God was leading us to start this Refugee Child Sponsorship Program: to engage the national pastors and church in a relationship with refugees together in the Lord.
Are you sponsoring a refugee child? You’re part of this Day of Salvation! Have you contributed towards a Trauma Kit of a plush animal and a solar powered player with the Bible in their language on audio? You’re part of this Day of Salvation! Now these families will be able to listen to the Bible in their own language. Are you sponsoring a national pastor? You’re part of this Day of Salvation!
Jesus Christ came to bring healing and hope to a hurting, broken world. God uses people like you and our teams in Iraq to be the hands and feet of Jesus to these refugee families. Listen, we all enjoy eating out…the cost for two people at dinner now is about $40…or, what it costs for one month of sponsorship. Why not cook at home just one night a month and change a life? The heat is on…we have 160/1000 children sponsored!
Syrian & Iraqi Refugee Child Sponsorship Program:
160 Precious
Children Sponsored!
Yosif, Rita and their parents have moved back to their home village just east of Mosul. After living in a refugee camp for almost three years, they heard the government was closing their camp and packed up. Like the other kids in their neighborhood, Rita and Yosif are on summer break, but soon they and many other children in this town will begin a new school year. While they look forward to it, these kids struggle with PTSD from the war with ISIS and tough adjustments since they lost everything and fled their homes.
This is where you, our sponsors are making such a difference; when these kids and their parents register into our program, excitement runs high because they know someone will be sponsoring and praying for them. If you can believe this…the kids are just happy to know their sponsor will be THINKING about them!
The monthly sponsorship you share really helps! The food packets, visits, meetings and biblical teaching all mean someone cares. With school beginning soon, please consider an extra gift for your child to ensure he or she has a backpack (with school supplies inside), school uniform, socks and shoes. You can help your child with first-day-of-school-jitters and get them off to a successful new school year.
Would you like to sponsor one of these precious kids today? Stop by our website and on the right click “Sponsor a Child.” For $39/month you can greatly help a child, $78 for two and $117 for three!
Welcome New Sponsors! We’re excited you are part of this growing community of IM Friends who are putting their hearts of love into action. Thank you! Help more kids with the Gospel; we’d love to share in your church effective ways to impact lives.
If you have questions on your sponsorship, Sarah will be happy to assist you at 719-302-3028.
Have you joined our growing team of child sponsors? You may have had a typical spring planting flowers or breaking out your bike, but here at IM, our spring has been…well, a bit crazy! And it’s really just begun.
Last fall we began our Refugee Child Sponsorship Program helping Iraqi and Syrian Refugee kids with an initial goal of getting 125 kids sponsored. In May we celebrated reaching that goal! That means more kids are receiving nutritious food, being encouraged, mentored and hearing the Gospel every mont
Mryana with two of our kids in a refugee camp during a recent food distribution.
Thanks to our amazing sponsors and our team in Iraq, we are thrilled that 140 kids are now sponsored. One thing we’ve learned in working with refugee families is that they truly appreciate the monthly visits, food packets and meetings for the kids. They are truly grateful to you.
We’re now on our way to the next level of 300 kids in the program being sponsored. Word is getting out! KLOVE Radio has shared Indigenous Ministries’ ministry, we’ve been on TV, multiple churches across the US have launched the Refugee Child Sponsorship Program, and this month IM teams will share at IFCA National Conference in South Bend, Indiana and the Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference in Denver.
On June 30, look for us at the FishFest Concert in Anaheim with over 16,000 in attendance; we are one of 20 booths. If you’re there, stop by and see us!
Sponsor one of these precious kids today! Stop by our website and on the right click “Sponsor a Child.” For $39/month you can really help a child. For $78, you help two and for $117 three kids are better off!
Food packets mean families have better nutrition for their kids.
One of the boys shows he is able to lift the 15# sack of rice to take to his mother at our latest food distribution to refugee families. The response to the food packets has been overwhelmingly favorable; families are very grateful.
Early in the morning recently, the Indigenous Ministries Iraq team headed to a town previously occupied by ISIS, where families gathered in a large room waiting for the opportunity to enroll their children into IM’s program, which will help them as they re-settle.
Hope is no small thing for these families caught in the post-war nightmare. Unemployment is as high as 36% in areas, and most homes are uninhabitable, yet UNHCR care and maintenance assistance is being phased out and refugee camps closed leaving most refugees little or no choice to move back to the very places they were driven from.
We’re deeply honored to be part of their journeys and thank each one of you who are sponsoring refugee children. Your response continues to be humbling to our staff both here in the US and in Iraq. They continue to ask that we thank you on their behalf.
Sarah continues to make profile cards of their precious lives we know the Lord loves. Of the 225 children, 117 are sponsored. Call Sarah at the office today to sponsor several of these kids. Or you can quickly do it on our website, www.IndigenousMinistries.org, on the righthand side. God Bless You!
