What will it take?

As we end the near of our furlough for 2009 and prepare to head back to the home in just 15 days. We are mindful of the reality that GSCH has been struggling with getting the needed donations to sustain this enormous work of running the home.

Ruth and Astrid, sweet girls once afflicted and abandoned, they need your support.

One would want to think that due to the U.S. being in tough economic times. We should accept that mission work and ministries like this are going to suffer due to people having hard financial times. We can't accept this! This would seem logical but we must remind ourselves that God is BIG and He loves his children.

Especially the children of this world who have been abandoned or neglected. We must not forget what James says "Religion that our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress" Let us not forget our calling as God's children which is to care for, love and provide for these precious children.

These 32 children accepted Christ as their Savior in 2009, and are being discipled, growing in Him.

The beginning of the second chapter in James tell us how we are to follow up our faith in Christ by deeds or action. In other words "putting your money where your mouth is" or "walking the walk" instead of talking the walk let's "be the good samaritan". James 2:17 says "faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."

Let's put our faith in action! Help meet the financial needs of the home so that we can bring in new children into the home once again! It has been over 2 years that a new child or youth has come in off the streets to be placed at the home. Cuts have been made in so many ways to the nearly $40,000 monthly budget.

It costs $5.83 a day to fully support a child of all his physical needs such as food, housing, education, health care, and clothing.

How fast can we spend $6.00 a day on things we could do without? Pretty easy. I know we can all do without a lot of things we spend our money on. Do you agree?

What can you do? What will you do? Go to the home's website http://www.gsch.org/ and help sponsor a child today. Give generously to The Good Shepherd Children's Home. Bring hope to these 200 children who were once despaired. To donate financially to the home here is how: http://www.bmdmi.org/help/donations.html

Thank you so much for doing the will of our Lord in the lives of these needy children of Honduras. Know that your financial gift is an eternal investment in the lives of these kids!