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HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO ARE MERCIFUL TO OTHERS; GOD WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEM!
(Mathew 5:7 GOOD NEWS VERSION)
HELPING THE NEEDY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COMPASSIONATE
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Put your investment in several places; many places in fact because you never know (Eccl. 11:2)
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We organize local community and encourage them to use whatever they have and raise a structure where they can worship God. It is only in their continual prayers to Him that he will touch the compassionate to assist us to help improve their lives.
... Among the compassion programs, building houses for the elderly and the disabled and even the less fortunate of the society is a core desire of this ministry. In this aspect we have a disaster response unit that responds to catastrophes that befall communities rendering them homeless or poor. Like Burundi being a hilly land most houses built poorly for lack of proper building materials by the hillsides sometimes are swept down-hills during heavy rains.
(Pastor Ernest Preaching in French as Pastor Zachariah translates in Kirundi the native language of Burindi in a little well built church in the rural) Not a single church in the rural where we have chosen as our program pioneer has any public address system. This meeting alone did cost us a lot of money to hire the musical and address system but the excitement and the joy felt by the rural audience can not be compared with price. As our programs generate funds and we buy instruments or a compassionate ministry donates used or new set of instruments to us we will be holding such meetings most often.
Church planting and faith based activities are the backbones of the organization. We organize and arrange seminars and conferences for local and foreign ministries at a very realistic budget and vision and mission based arrangements that result to the expectation of the conveners.
This organization have in the past watched some unfaithful people mismanaging funds sent by organizers of some seminars and thus came up with a seminar and conference section that will not basically focus on what is left for grabs but what has been achieved at a very low cost. We therefore are able to organize meetings for all Christian based seminars for both locals and foreign ministries in Burundi, Kenya and Democratic Republic of Congo.
Women and girls department is very vibrant and vital because they have through many troubles learnt hard work and patience. There are several sections ranging from:
A part from normal church services and development group meetings we frequently hold women meetings to sensitize them on the benefits of saving and investing in the education of their children for continuity.
These are women who have benefited from several inspirational meetings. These were once hopeless women with children they could not take to school. But we by very little income we make have been able to sponsor their children to school.
Though it is taking a lot of our gains but we have no choice if we hope to have a future without thieves, robbers and beggars. If you knew that the fruits of tomorrow are in the seeds of today and you are compassionate, you would help us equip this noble program.
Agricultural activities are in the pipeline as we have so far tried to plant few crops without fertilizer. The six months old trial program has just confirmed our expectation.
(Bernadette and her son Mathew visited the garden trial project in rural in Bubanza province)
When we took a small portion of this piece of land and planted maize, beans and arrowroots without any fertilizer we were amazed to see the outcome. Bernadette, the coordinator of women programs and IGA, visited the garden and brought us this picture. We could not hide our approval for future farming as God blesses us with funds.
HELPING THE NEEDY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COMPASSIONATE
