Hello everyone!
I have been in the US for the past few weeks and my bones are rattling with the bitter cold! :-) I wonder why I am here during one of the hardest winters ever but I trust that God knows what He is doing.
It has been a blessing to see so many of you. I have been to 6 states already and will be traveling to a few more. There is no way that I will be able to see all of you on this trip but I hope to see as many as I can.
I have been able to be seen by some medical personnel and have a follow up appointment this week. Please be prayerful about issues regarding my health. I am trusting God for complete and total healing of malaria issues and a few other things.
I want to take a moment to update you on some of our goals for the upcoming year!
Dreams and Visions
Restaurant
In order for the ministries in Cameroon to become self-sustaining, we are proposing to open various businesses that will generate revenue for ministry and will provide local employment. One of the first businesses will be a restaurant. Our simple menu will include: Hamburgers and fries Roasted fish and chips or dodo Pizza Roasted chicken and french fries or fried plantain, cake, Sorbet, Natural juices, Lemonade and limeade. The restaurant would ideally be located between Molyko and Bonduma in a high traffic area where there are plenty of University students. The restaurant would have weekend activities such as live music, movie nights, sports viewings, date nights, etc. The estimated start up costs are $20,000.
FARMING PROJECT
Land has been offered for use for a farming project. It would provide many needed items for the restaurant and for home use at a much cheaper price. It would also provide a home and work for a couple in hopes that they would also be able to sustain themselves and their family.
In order to start the project, we will first need to complete the caraboat house and build a pit toilet for them to live on the land. The land will have the house, a poultry, a goat fence, milking stands and then the land to be planted and harvested. We eventually will want to add a greenhouse. Costs are yet to be determined.
Leadership Academy
Our Leadership Academy will be an intensive training program for people that would become future leaders. All will have core curriculum training and then will be able to pursue a particular track that fits their calling and interests. We will have a residential component to allow some trainees to optimally focus on the training course.
Ways you can help
1. Monthly support - My yearly support goal is $15,000. 50 people giving $30 per month will help take care of living expenses, ministry needs, and one plane ticket per year for me.
2. Education Scholarship - Education is actually cheap in Cameroon but many families still can't afford to send their children to school. $100 a year can send a primary, high school, or college student to school with attendant fees, books, and uniforms. You can also save your change and encourage your friends and family to do the same for the next 6 months to help someone attend school!
3. Medical Scholarships - a significant portion of our budget has been diverted to cover medical costs. Emergency appendectomy, life saving breast cancer treatment, biopsy of a suspicious nodule, malaria medication, eyeglasses - all necessities but unexpected. Help us build a financial reserve to cover the medical costs of our Cameroonian "family". Any gift you would like to donate can help save a life. You can also save your change and encourage your friends and family to do the same for the next 6 months to help save a life!
4. Staff - 3 beautiful young women have been volunteering their time, energy and love tirelessly to enable ministry to be successful. Please help us to financially bless them for their dedication and hard work. Our goal is to raise $100/month per woman, for a year. The success of the restaurant will continue their salaries in the future.
5. Kingdom Cafe - we're launching a restaurant project to help financially sustain our ministry projects. Start-up costs for phase 1 of the project is estimated at $10,000. You can give a one time gift of $500 or $1,000 or you can purchase and decorate a restaurant table for $100.
6. Come help us!!! There are multiple ministry projects that would benefit from your expertise. You can help teach children at the orphanage or in the prison. Come help build a house for our farming project. Come help us farm the land or raise our chickens and goats. Let us know your passion and talent and we can find somewhere to make use of them.
7. We are always in need of unlocked used cell phones. These are helpful to us when we have teams visiting
and general use with our volunteers.
8. We are also looking for manual meat grinders, juicers, and coolers to be used with our restaurant project.
9. Host a bake sale or other fundraiser at your church or workplace to benefit our restaurant and/or farming project! We are always looking for ways to fund raise year round to help offset ministry costs. If you have other ideas, please let me know!
In order for these dreams to become a reality, we need you. Will you pray about how you can be a part of this vision? Do you give? Do you come teach? Do you provide resources? Do you continue to pray and champion our cause in your sphere of influence? Please join me in praying for this dream. I am certain that where God provides a vision, He provides Provision. He has begun with showing us the need and giving more workers to help. We will go where He leads us and do what He says to do.
Please email me if you are interested in helping in any way or if you have
questions about anything!
If you would like to give, you can click the donate button in the upper left corner of this page!
Thanks again for all of your love, support and encouragement. You are invaluable to me and the ministry that God has blessed me to be a part of.
