Miles In Missions

C.A.R.E. Africa D Groups have been such a blessing to our children and our volunteers for almost a year now. Our eyes were opened to how little our children know about salvation, sin, repentance and just the basics. We realized we really needed to start from the Genesis 1:1 in order to truly disciple these kids.

We were excited to find AWANA Nigeria several months ago and have been pursing them ever sense. Visits to JOS, sharing with local pastors, training and more had prepared us to start the program in April. The last thing remaining was uniforms. The Nigerian AWANA version divides the children into 4 separate colored teams which helps with the games, record keeping, council time and team time. It is wonderful but each uniform is 900 Niara each.

I work with orphans who cannot afford their own school uniform so an extra curricular uniform would be out of the question. I reached out to a couple of donors asking for help with the cost of the uniforms. Over and over I kept on running into closed doors. We postponed our April start date and rescheduled for May. I told God that if he wanted us to start AWANA in Egbe he needed to provide.

The next week I got an email from someone who told me she had soccer supplies she could donate. I expressed my joy in this, but told her that we had bigger needs then that and asked if she new anyone that could help. I explained AWANA and our need for uniforms. I also explained the 5 applications of children wanting to join C.A.R.E. but cannot b/c I don’t have a sponsors for them. She emailed back thanking me for my honesty and said she would take care of all the AWANA uniforms, sponsor a child and reach out to a few churches she knows could probably sponsor a few children too.

WOW! God is so good and I love it when he shows off. I had to share to encourage anyone that is facing an obstacle right now.  John 5:14 says to bring your requests to him with confidence! He will answer you! Just be open to a NO or a YES, and know that his will and his timing are always best.

We started AWANA last Monday and had 45 children attend. This previous Monday we had 60 show up. We are expecting our club will probably have 100 by the end of the month. We need an AWANA club from the U.S. to sponsor us. If you know of any clubs in the U.S. looking to sponsor a club in Africa can you email me at Patrice.Miles@sim.org.