Lifesong Zambia

The primary objective of the Lifesong Zambia School is to teach the children to be followers of Christ!

Lifesong – Zambia is the only school in the Kitwe community working to provide Christian education and 2 meals per day to 175 children.

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*** A special thanks to Kids Caring 4 Kids for their generous donation to help fund the building of new restrooms, a showerhouse, nurse & sick room at the Lifesong School in Zambia.

kids caring for kids | Prairie Christian School

Something special happened at a little school in central Illinois (Prairie Christian School)!  An 8 yr old girl @ PCS, decided to help the orphans in Zambia. Completely on her own initiative, and initially unbeknown to her parents, she began to create posters, flyers, and asked her school friends, to give and help the Lifesong School in Zambia!

Now when I first heard this was happening, I thought "ah, that's great...she'll probably help raise $30-$50 and that will be a fun experience for their class"

Boy, was I wrong.  Someone must've watched this video

These PCS kids busted their piggy banks!  Some gave $2.  Some gave $40. All they had in quarters, dimes, nickels & pennies. Kids recruited their parents & grandparents to give.  They did pay jobs around the house, etc.

This small school of only about 35 students helped raise $3,046.31

Whoever thinks kids can't make a difference... must not have met the students of PCS!

Prairie Christian School students & teachers!

 The whole school voted on how to spend the money they raised, here is the DIFFERENCE they will be making in Zambia!

1. Playground for School campus

2.  Funding 2 meals/day for all the students

3.  Buying school supplies for teachers & students

Africa or bust!.... Ethiopia & Zambia

Lifesong is taking a Vision Trip to Ethiopia & Zambia (Sept 4-12) as we advocate for the orphaned and vulnerable children there. In Ethiopia will be exploring the opportunity for Lifesong & Gobena Coffee to come alongside of a church, school, orphan & vulnerable kids in the Ziway region.

By the way - do you drink coffee?  Do you drink coffee for a CAUSE?

Drink Coffee.

Help Orphans.  

Brew up a cup!  100% of coffee proceeds fund orphan care projects through Lifesong.

ETHIOPIA (pics of the local leadership team in Ziway, missionary Gary, and picture of the current church - needs some help)

An unforgettable commitment | part 1

From today's front page article...

About 20 years ago, Gary & Marla Ringger made a commitment that ended up changing the lives of thousands of children worldwide.

see related Honduras article

an orphan's life comes 'full circle' | Orphans Deserve Better

Great "Your Orphan Story" from www.orphansdeservebetter.org

 

Adoption: A Lifelong Love Story

In 1956 I was born to a 16 year old unwed mother. Given the mores of the day she was expected to quickly marry her teenage boyfriend. Sixteen months later they had another little boy. Overwhelmed by it all, my mother left us when I was 2 years old and my brother was 6 months. Soon after our father left as well. We were put into a foster home. Our foster parents brought us to their church where a young couple with no childen of their own fell in love with us and decided to adopt us both.

That selfless act of love changed my life's destiny forever. I grew up wanting to adopt someday myself as a way of giving back for what I had been blessed with. God, however had another path for me to travel. Although blessed with four children and eight grandchildren an unfulfilled passion to change the lives of abandoned and orphaned children in the way mine was changed still burned within me.

Then one day in 2005 I was approached by...Lifesong for Orphans. That meeting was another life changing event for me and the forerunner of many more to come. These past years as I have contributed to, solicited for and traveled to Ukraine, India and Zambia as an orphan advocate I have witnessed and experienced first hand both the agony and the ecstacy of the orphan experience.

I have sat with my arm around the shoulder of a little girl in Zambia whose mother had died of AIDS and whose father was about to die from it as well. I wiped her tears and tried to reassure her as she agonized over what her future held.

I have been hugged tightly by orphaned teenagers in Ukraine who were overwhelmed by the opportunity to be able to live in new transition homes built through Lifesong donations rather than be exiled into the squalor and degradation of the state run dormatories once they aged out of the orphanages.

I have been mobbed by love-starved, orphaned children in the slums of India who are reduced to tears of awe and wonder over the idea that rich, white Americans actually care enough that they exist to not only come visit them but find ways to improve their lots in life as well.

I could blog endlessly about the myriad of ways that these orphans have touched and enriched my life. As a kindred spirit to them from my life's beginning I ask only that people hear their stories and their cries before buying into any misconceptions or misrepresentations of what or who they are. To me they are truly the cups that God has asked us to pour the cool water of compassion and caring into....the least of His here below and yet primed to be the greatest in His eternal kingdom.

by Bob Hoerr (IL)