We need 5 -10 volunteers to help as Sara Sebyala comes in June. Sara will be bringing about 200 fresh child profiles, but before we can find sponsors for these kids, we need to process the profiles and get them into our system.
We also need people to PRAY with us - as we process the profiles, we pray for each child by name. If typing isn't your thing, and you want to help - this is a powerful way to do that!
Location & Time:
The Friends of TOUCH office at Lighthouse Worship Center
4299 George Washington Memorial Hwy., Hayes, VA 23072
Wednesday, June 10 & Thursday, June 11, from 9am - 4pm
You wouldn't have to be there the whole time - but please do call me as soon as you can to let me know your availability: 757-272-0979
Some of the work will be via online forms, but because of privacy concerns we need the data to stay in our offices. We have three computers available, so if you have a laptop, bring it.
We want to get several people working on this each day. That way we can rotate through the process, and give folks a break. Reading the children's stories takes an emotional toll, and we need a team of people who will work diligently and prayerfully over this two-day period to give us the profiles we need to get these children sponsored.
Sponsorship funds pay for tuition, and provide food at the school. Inflation has caused the price of pasho - the staple food at school - to double since January. What that means is that the school has reduced meals from two to just one meal a day. If we can get an additional 200 children sponsored, food will not be an issue. The children will be more likely to stay healthy, they will attend school more frequently, and they will perform better in school. Some of the TOUCH kids are HIV positive, and proper nutrition is a life or death issue for them. They can't keep their medicines down without food. By helping us prepare these profiles, you will literally be saving lives.
Skills needed:
An eye for detail, patience, good typing skills, ability to take information and write a clear, concise, and compelling story. DETAIL oriented people needed. Use MS Word, fill out forms accurately, experience with database needed for some tasks. Did I mention we need attention to detail?
- Type child details into the computer
- Write public narratives
- Process Photos & match with profiles
- Create a profile for each child
- Enter each profile into Bento database
- Print profiles
- Print tracking sheet for each child
Thank you for helping!
-Kay
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Loosed for the Lord's Service
I know that we've passed Easter, but won't you revisit it with me today?
As He neared Jerusalem that final time, Jesus told two of His disciples, “Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’” ( Luke 19:31)
When they went, of course, they found things exactly as He had said:
But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?” And they said, “The Lord has need of him.” Then they brought him to Jesus. (Luke 19:33-35a)
At first glance, the colt is just a form of transportation. But then the "Hosannas" start. People are laying their clothes on the ground for the animal to walk on, and a proclamation is made:
“‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the LORD!’ Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” (Luke 19:38)
Loosed for the Lord's service, the simple colt becomes the King's vehicle. Like the manger, the King's presence takes something menial and crowns it with royal purpose and eternal significance.
Isn't it like that with us?
I think that it's significant that the disciples were called on by Jesus to loose the colt. It was a simple act that required two things from them. It required them to act boldly on a word from the Lord, and it required them to make a declaration of who He is.
If Jesus called on His disciples to loose the lowly colt for His eternal purpose, how much more shall we obey His call to us to loose the children?
Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6)
Let us act boldly to deliver children from poverty and oppression. Let us declare God's Word over them. And if anyone asks, ‘Why are you loosing them?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of them.’ And let us bring them to Jesus.
As He neared Jerusalem that final time, Jesus told two of His disciples, “Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’” ( Luke 19:31)
When they went, of course, they found things exactly as He had said:
But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?” And they said, “The Lord has need of him.” Then they brought him to Jesus. (Luke 19:33-35a)
At first glance, the colt is just a form of transportation. But then the "Hosannas" start. People are laying their clothes on the ground for the animal to walk on, and a proclamation is made:
“‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the LORD!’ Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” (Luke 19:38)
Loosed for the Lord's service, the simple colt becomes the King's vehicle. Like the manger, the King's presence takes something menial and crowns it with royal purpose and eternal significance.
Isn't it like that with us?
I think that it's significant that the disciples were called on by Jesus to loose the colt. It was a simple act that required two things from them. It required them to act boldly on a word from the Lord, and it required them to make a declaration of who He is.
If Jesus called on His disciples to loose the lowly colt for His eternal purpose, how much more shall we obey His call to us to loose the children?
Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6)
Let us act boldly to deliver children from poverty and oppression. Let us declare God's Word over them. And if anyone asks, ‘Why are you loosing them?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of them.’ And let us bring them to Jesus.
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