Recent Activities

With Christmas fast approaching, we have been spending a good amount of our time distributing Christmas and New Years books, CDs, Calendars, etc. We concentrate on meaningful items--not the commercialised concept of Christmas that so many adapt nowadays. Here are a few samples:

An inspirational Agenda for 2010 with beautiful photos at the beginning of every month and a quote on every page.

A "Child Friendly" Calendar, just for kids.

Christmas songs on  CD included with a card--perfect as a gift.

We also have been continuing  teaching Motivational classes every week as well as distribute food to other volunteers.

Feed Me!

       Part of our mission is to train and teach others who can work with us in their part of the world to help others. We have a friend who lives in the North of England--not very practical to give classes to! But like the hungry birds in the above photo, Steve would not let distance deter him! He wanted to learn more and would let nothing stop him! So we devised a plan whereby we meet halfway--he traveled south and we traveled north and we met up in Leicester, where there is a Family International Centre. They so kindly let us all stay for two days and we had a marathon course time--using as much of the time as we possibly could to teach the Connexions Course which is a Bible course compiled by the Family which helps prepare trainees for further work.

        Steve, who is a guitarist, is already beginning to put what he is learning into practice: helping at another Centre in the Midlands by playing guitar for a monthly meeting they have there. Although it can be a bit of a tiring journey to travel up and back in two days, it is time well spent as we see his enthusiasm and hunger. After all, this is what we do!

Steve (left) studies the Connexions Course with Paul

Teaching Others to Teach Others

Isabella Studying the "12 Bridges" Course

A good deal of our time is spent training others to reach out to those around them. Isabella is one of our eager students who is nearing the end of the "12 Bridges Course". She is learning to be a listening ear to her collegues at work and her family, and then to do what she can to help them with counsel and by offerning them inspirational reading, geared to them individually.