"A gift opens the way "

For years now we have been working with many of the little villages in our region , but we have avoided the village that the farm is in.  While we were establishing the farm it was best that we kept a lower profile.  

We have now reached a point where we are ready to have a more visable presence in the comunity we live.  We have started bringing closer to home things like the coal and seed deliverie and wellness checks.  We have seen in the past couple months a number of people reach out when they need help in emergencies. We have seen our bus used more and more as a hospital transport as people are in crisis . 

We had done some repairs on the playground and planed for a party to celebrate .. we planed for about 40 kids , and that turned into 400.

  

We were able to scramble and pull that off.   We had a fifth event planed .. that was going to be to have another party and give out Samaritains Purse boxes.  For that we need to know the names ages and sex of each child that would be receiving the boxes .. with in hours of starting to gather this information, we were flooded with kids wanting to come .  700 kids signed up in just 10 hours. 

There are not 700 Samaritains Purse boxes in Kyrgyzstan.  I must say 700 is so far out of my comfort zone. I thought 100 kids would be a lot.  700 makes my head spin.  We have been praying about what to do , should we just cancle .. amagin canceling because you have too much interest.  It happened so fast, we could just limit it to 100, but how do we tell 600 that they did not make the cut?  So we have decided that since our return lines up with Back to school, and we often help with back to school supplies so that kids can go to school, we will pack napsacks with suplies for them.  

We have a sponsor for the party and now are working on funds to purchase supplies. The cost will be just $10 a child. Alredy we have almost 200 kids sponsored .  that leaves us with $5000 to go to pull off this event.  The hard part is that for donations to make their way through the different giving platforms and the banks, we need to have funds in place by July 31.   

We are excited about this event. and more excited about the comunity interest and the open doors that we are experiencing . 

Proverbs 18:16 says   "A man's gift makes room for him, and bringeth him before great men."

Thank you everyone who has helped bring a great  impact over the last year .. lets finish this strong .