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When you checkout http://www.horizonsfoundation.com/ and you click on the 'Needs' tab, you will see that our number one project for 2004 has been to supply $52,160 for a new children's home in Pacasmayo Peru. This objective has been achieved. The money has been sent. The workers are putting the finishing touches on the building and soon the building will be completed and licensed by the appropriate authorities to accept children into an 'orphanage'. We have additional projects for Peru, but our number one priority project for 2004 has been completed! Praise God! Now, our primary focus is on our new number one goal - Acquiring the furniture for the 8th house at Bethany Christian Center in Chisinau, Moldova. This furniture will cost $9500. On June 29, Al received an email from Doru Cirdei, the Executive Director of the Bethany Christian Center asking, "What do you think that we should do with the 8th house at Bethany Christian Center? The couple is waiting for moving in. Is there any hope for funds to furnish the house in the near future? Thank you for your advice!" As you know, each house in Bethany is designed to hold up to 12 abandoned children and for them to make a new home with their new 'Mom' and 'Dad'. To completely furnish all the bedrooms, living rooms and kitchen with sturdy furniture, the cost is $9500. If you would like to supply $700 for all the furniture and household goods for one child or adult, please forward a check to Horizons Foundation, PO Box 6022, St Charles MO 63302. Thank you for all you do to help these orphaned and abandoned kids! Adjacent to Moldova is the country of Ukraine, a country of the former Soviet Union. In southern Ukraine, the city of Odessa has 1.2 million people. Setting on the outskirts of Odessa is a new children's home for abandoned/abused children that was purchased in December 2003. Within the last 24 hours, the Executive Director of Hope House, Sergei Svitsun has arrived and departed from St Louis. Sergei came to provide an update on how the new children's home is progressing, as well as to provide an update on the progress of the 'First Steps' program - a program for feeding street children in Odessa. Sergei is amazed at how God has brought together many diverse people to make First Steps and Hope House a reality. During the last six months alone, 169 children have been registered at the First Steps program. As you can see on the website, when the children first come to First Steps they are identified with a unique number, and as much information as possible is collected upon their arrival. Being street wise, most children do not supply accurate information upon their first visit, but only later thru genuine love do they come to realize that the adults at First Steps really are not out to take advantage of them and that these same adults really are sharing God's love for them. Of that group, 31 children have been restored from the street to their family and home, or to school. Many times children have ran away from home due to misunderstandings with their family, just like in North America. By having sympathetic and caring adults who become the children's friend, a level of trust has been established that has lead to restoration. In addition to this group of 31, 12 more young people have been helped to find jobs; jobs ranging from working at McDonalds to washing cars, etc. However, these are jobs that give the kids spending money, which stops the need for stealing. Two children and their mother have received passports due to hard work by the staff at First Steps. This the photo identification document required for working and getting an education. This effort completely changes a person's status from being an outcast unable to work or go to school into one who can become somebody. In the Ukraine, one needs a passport for photo identification just like folks in the USA need a driver's license or a state supplied photo id. A passport in the Ukraine also serves like the passport in the US, in that it also allows one to exit the country, but it's much more difficult to get a passport in the Ukraine than in the US. These kids and their mom are now someone official. Finally, nine kids have been selected and approved by the government and have moved into Hope House. Seven were moved in just before Christmas 2003, and since that time two more children have been added to the household. Praise God! (See a picture of the expanding family in the attachment) Sergei also identified multiple projects that will help Hope House. These include a) adding another bathroom on the 2nd floor, b) putting up a fence around the property (See a picture of a portion of the land at the rear of Hope House in the attachment), c) building a barn for the animals that are being purchased for food, and d) buying a small tractor to care for the 3 acres of ground purchased around Hope House. His goal is for Hope House to be 50% self-supported within one year. Let's help him achieve that goal. "One person caring about another represents life's greatest value." - Jim Rohn In His Service, 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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