APRIL 2024: Learning To Garden

Prayer Chain

Dear God we thank you for your favor, grace and love, we are what we call children of God, how to not be thankful for all you have done and are doing, how heart is full and gratitude and love.

We pray for our business may your hand be upon it and bless it, we pray for our new land wHere we will be growing food and become more sustainable and independent,

We pray for our donors may your grace be upon then and bless all of them We pray for GWP grace and favor all around the world

GOD bless KELLY Amen.

Spiritual Self Defense

This month we really have a powerful moment of bible study we learn more, we share, we laugh with love together

Your life moves in the direction of your strongest thoughts (How We Think) is the topics we learn about.

We need to see the people we work with and the people we serve through God’s eyes – as people God loves and for whom Jesus gave His life. When we love other people as we love ourselves, we look out for them, show them respect, treat them well, and seek the best for them verse “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

Although we don’t naturally think in the same way as God, He does expect us to think carefully. Most of our battles, whether working toward good or sinful in nature, begin with our thoughts. Our thoughts lead to actions, and our actions influence relationships; the results can either be in alignment with who we are in Christ, or miles apart from God’s will. Therefore, “how” we think is exceedingly important. The good news after reading this we realize that our brains can be changed and we can influence how we think.

Proverbs 3:5 redirects our minds from trusting our traditional or habitual ways of thinking. One reason this is important is that our minds are a “battlefield” in which Satan is an unseen enemy who opposes the person and work of God. The Bible tells us that “he is a liar and deceiver” (Genesis 3:1-5), “a schemer” (2 Corinthians 2:11), “a counterfeiter” (2 Corinthians 11:13-15), and “a destroyer” (Revelations 9:11).

Satan wants to keep us from God and from thinking like Jesus. His primary tools from the beginning have been “lies” and distractions. For example, you may be successful in planning and completing a project and he’ll try to convince you that you don’t need God. You have all the knowledge and talent to do things on your own. Don’t listen, but test every thought and determine its source. Then Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Physical Self Defense

This month we bless the lord for His grace upon our organization day upon day, this month we receive an invitation from CMS to participate to a roundtable forum organized jointly by CMS-Africa and CMS Britain (This will happen in May & June). The focus of this discussion is “The Role of Women and Youth in Implementing Wholistic Discipleship Programmes in eastern DRC”.

CMS-Africa and CMS Britain have been engaged in efforts with multiple churches and organisations, all Christian, to make disciples in the contexts of conflict focused in the general areas of Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu in the DR Congo. This started with an online consultative forum in November 2021 and continues with various activities.

Purpose of the Roundtable

To share case studies on the pivotal role played by women and youth in implementing wholistic community transformational programmes in contexts of conflict.
To explore ways of enhancing the impact of these programmes to result in increased peace and stability in the communities.

With our partner ACH we prepare a visit to one of the refugee’s camp, to provide medicine, food and assist those young girls who were raped and now they have babies they are in pain a lot with rain, sun, missing food and medical assistance, with our contribution we will do what we can.

We continue to review practicing course 1 from the correction we get with coach which is:

1.proactive; here we do our best to put our self in a secure zone, with secure people we fill safe with so we can anticipate dangers

2.verbal: here we learn and practice how we can turn off, or put out the fire, from anger, dispute or something like that to be safe

3.physical: we practice it to empower ours self and run safe from danger, please check it in our monthly video

Intellectual Self Defense

Music Lessons

Tailoring Training

Year long certification with Rachel, a very skilled young woman that we sent to school for tailoring.

Hair braiding Trade

Year long course for professional certification

All our girls and boys are good and continue with school’s programs.

Next month they start with exams so they can finish this year we bless God even with all this trouble with war they were able to continue all sessions.

Lea

Graduated December 2021!

Goma University, Business Degree

Mignone, 21

Goma University, Psychologist

Year 3 out of 4

Amina Daniella, 20

University, Agriculturist

Year 1 out of 4

Daniella, 18

University

Muga, 17

Secondary School

Justine, 15

Secondary Secondary

Beni, 15

Secondary School

Deborah, 14

Secondary School

Angel, 14

Secondary School

Ade, 13

Secondary School

Plamedi, 12

Secondary School

Deborah M, 12

Secondary School

Lucy, 11

Secondary School

Light, 10

Secondary School

Kito, 8

Secondary School

Economical Self Defense

This month we bless God for our business even in this time of crisis we still keep doing our business we have difficult to get the raw materials because of war but hope those roads will be open in Jesus name.

In (an effort) to make the safe house stable we (will) rent land where we will be growing food, so excited about it.

(Since all of our girls were home, I took this time to teach them about gardening. We had) a wonderful time in garden with all our girls, prepare the land, plant, remove weeds… they are learning how to grow vegetables.