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First, a quick update on the students learning music in Moldova: Doru Cirdei, Sr. Pastor and Executive Director of Bethany Christian Center in Chisinau was in the USA during the last two months and stopped by Horizons Foundation for a quick visit. He said that they have one flute per four children and if anyone could locate and donate flutes to the former street children living in Bethany, if would be greatly appreciated. Send them to us and we’ll insure they get to the kids! Second, please see the attached update from Moldova and the pictures showing the computers sent over last November, and the interior of the 7th house at Bethany ready for a family. The 8th house has been rehabbed and now needs furniture, then only two more houses to be rehabbed and furnished at this location. God has blessed this effort to rescue His children from the streets. Our mission is to help and rescue homeless and abandoned children. During the last month, a man contacted us and indicated he knew of another gentlemen, formerly of Argentina, that wanted to support children’s homes and/or orphanages specifically in Argentina. At the present time we do not know any organization active in this work in Argentina. Do you? If so, please let us know and we will get these parties together. The need is great and donors need the blessings of giving. Please help us be a catalyst! Third, an update about Pacasmayo, Peru: the first two floors of the new children’s home are about half complete. Wonderfully, two partners in God’s rescue plan have contacted Horizons Foundation and pledged a total of $20,000 for this project. Sounds to me like the 3rd floor will get built this year! Hey, if you want to get in on the fun, it’s easy; just do what God wants you to. Avis Goodheart of Go Ye Ministries is one lady who wants to do what God wants: retired lady from Northern Arkansas goes to somewhere in Peru that 99.99% of the world’s population has never heard of, by herself, and begins to “help the helpless, starting with their spiritual needs.” Corrections to last month’s newsletter: Both Mr. and Mrs. Goodheart lived about 100 miles (or so) south of Springfield Missouri, not in Springfield Missouri and Mr. Goodheart did not accompany Mrs. Goodheart on her mission trips to Pacasmayo. Fourth, last month Horizons Foundation assumed the responsibility of collecting, forwarding, supplying receipts, tracking and reporting all US donations for Calvin Klaus in association with Christ for Moldova. Calvin has been working in Moldova for at least 8 years and made the initial contact with Horizons Foundation back in 1998 to see ‘about the possibility of purchasing an apartment where 8 street children could be cared for’. Isn’t it amazing how God has multiplied these projects? He’s rescued over 70 kids so far from a short, miserable life on the streets; fed 1600 people a month during the civil war in Sierra Leone; built a fresh water cistern in Guatemala to give over 70,000 people a year fresh drinking water and He’s only just begun! Thank you for your kindness and love for these kids. “You may never know the effect that your kindness has on certain people, but know this . . . a kind word or act often inspires hope in those who need it most. I have seen the glimmer of hope in an Iraqi child’s eyes, and I assure you that hope, like kindness, transcends cultural and racial barriers. In this time of war, I challenge you to show unconditional kindness to those around you and to inspire hope in every life that you touch.” Josh Eckhoff wrote these words in an email to one of his former teachers in high school, just in the last few weeks. Josh is 19 and graduated from high school in May 2003, and joined the Army National Guard to earn GI Bill benefits to help him get a college education. He has been ‘in country’ in Iraq for over three months now. Please join us in praying for his safe return and every American Soldier’s safe return home. We don’t know Josh, but we do know that this country will be in good hands when he and others like him take their turn to lead his generation! And now, here’s our quarterly update on projects needing funding: Horizons Foundation’ Super 6 Projects For 2004 1. Peru, Pacasmayo – Fund $52,160 for 2 story building for 24 street kids to live with their new families (plus 2 more stories may be added to same building for $28,000 per floor -- 24 kids per floor); 2. Moldova, Chisinau – Fund $9500 to Bethany Christian Center to purchase all the furniture for House #8 (only 2 more houses to be rehabbed and furnished at $34,500 each; 3. Zambia –Fund $5000 to sponsor an Orphan Trust in cooperation with World Hope International to purchase animals and seed for the grandma's and grandpa's of a village to care for all the children of the village because most of the parents have died from AIDS (do this for one, two, ten or one hundred villages – this one time donation supplies the entire village the wherewithal to establish a perpetual self-sufficiency); 4. Guatemala -- Fund $5000 to dig next deep well to supply 14,000 people with fresh, clean water (plus fund $42,000 to dig/build 9 more deep wells/cisterns to supply clean water to almost another 200,000 people); 5. Peru, near Pacasmayo -- Fund at least $30,000 for a microlending program for the former refugees from the Shining Path to become self sufficient financially and their resultant donations will help support the new children's homes being built in #1 above; 6. Moldova, Belti -- Fund $1800 to hire architect to prepare building plans and hilltop site plan for 2nd set of children's homes to be built in Moldova (plus a guess-timate of $34,000 for 1st home in Belti to be built); We can put $103,460 to work within the next month. In His Service, Al & Charlotte Lockhart Horizons Foundation 106 Bogey Estates Dr. St Charles MO 63303 Al Lockhart Past Newsletters: 30 November 2003 31 December 2003 01 January 2004 01 February 2004 01 March 2004 01 April 2004 31 May 2004 30 June 2004 01 July 2004 01 August 2004 30 September 2004 31 October 2004 30 November 2004 31 December 2004 31 January 2005 28 February 2005 31 March 2005 02 May 2005 02 July 2005 31 August 2005 11 October 2005 18 December 2005 02 April 2006 30 June 2006 31 October 2006 |
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