The Little Lights Home
For me Pages doesn’t feel like a ministry, but a family. Though I can’t see your faces, or know your names, we’ve all come together for one purpose. We have a unity of heart in that we desire to see orphans loved and our pursuit of this is through prayer.
A rag-tag bunch from every walk of life, we’ve become an eager army, ready to take on any “impossibility” in prayer!
So as a friend, humbled that you’re here and ever ready to stand for these weak little ones who have no voice, I want to bring before you a need… a need that needs you.
There is a ministry called the Little Lights Home. It’s an orphanage that has been started by a Christian couple whose hearts are like ours. They desire to show love to children in desperate situations.
They are currently housing 26 children at their facility, some of whom are true orphans in that they have no family at all, and others who have come there because their relatives are too poor to care for them.
The Little Lights Home pays for the children to attend private Christian schools, houses them, feeds them, and most importantly teaches them about Christ.
For these children, this is their home and for some of them, this couple is the only dad and mom they have known.
This ministry is in a country that has been closing down a lot of Christian ministries and other organizations that benefit from international financial assistance.
Through all of this the Little Lights Home has continued to remain open, still they are in great need. And just as our weekly Dark Horses silently cry out to us, so does this little ministry. They need someone to stand in the gap for them. Someone to hope for them and believe in their cause. They are a Little Light in a very dark place and they need some friends to stand by them in this fight.
Please join us in prayer for the Little Lights Home!
Specific Needs to Pray for:
- The Children: That they would come to know and understand who they are in Christ and that their identity is found in Him. That they’re lives would burn brightly for Him and that He would be their hope.
- The Staff: That they would be abundantly blessed for their willingness to serve these children. That they’re hearts would be filled to overflowing with the Lord’s love as He opens their eyes to see in these children how much He loves them. And that they would be full, complete, and content as they walk out His will.
- Financial: For more sponsors to come forward and support these children. For a new car and a van/bus.
- Opportunities: That the Lord would open up the doors that He wants for them, to be able to share this ministry to more people and churches in our nation.
The Practical Needs:
I know for me, I like to know what the practical needs are. What do you need? And how much does it cost?
The Children: It costs $100 a month to care for each child in their home. Most sponsors commit to paying $50 a month and they hope to have at least two sponsors per child in their care.
Currently, none of their children have two sponsors and some of them don’t even have one.
The Car: They need a car for running errands, taking children to doctor visits, etc. Their old car is beyond repair and in this country there really is no used car market since the cars are run hard and long. A new car would cost them about $5000
The Van/Bus: The children go to school in town and they have to travel down a mountain road to get there. They are currently using a tired-out pickup with a cover over the back, but it is so crowded some of the older boys have to ride outside of the truck, hanging on to the back.
They estimate the cost for this kind of vehicle would be $30,000
The Support Team Here: They are down to a skeleton crew of volunteers here, running the paperwork part of the sponsorships and they could really use more help.
How to Give or Learn More:
If the Lord should put it on your heart to give finically to the Little Lights Home, whether in a sponsorship or just a one time gift toward their other needs, or if you would just like to learn more about this ministry you can visit their website: www.littlelightsorphanage.com
Books:
If you haven’t started or finished The Treasure of the Secret Places series, now’s a great time to buy since the profit from their sales is going to be donated to help the Little Lights Home!
You can learn more about my books at: Dark Horses Publishing
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:4
Thank you for your prayers!
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