Kids helping Kids!
Kids Rock, the children's ministry of Hope Alive Christian Center, is coming to the aid of orphaned babies in China needing extra nutrition. Through a giving campaign to collect support, Kid's Rock will spend three weeks in October asking their family, friends, neighbors, etc to donate toward this project.
The kids will be transforming empty baby bottles into bottles full of $1, $5 and $10 bills. The funds will then be used to purchase high nutrition formula to provide extra nourishment to orphaned babies.
November UPDATE- Two babies will be supplied with four months of formula thanks to the efforts of Kid's Rock. The contributions [totaling $280] will be used to purchase the formula, and will promote healthy growth to the babies. Thank you to the Kids Rock children who made this outreach a success.
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Local Congregation Unites to Help Orphans
"I was hungry and you gave me something to eat...
I was sick and you looked after me."
 Hope Alive Christian Center, Overland Park, Kansas, is giving unto the Lord as the congregation raises the support for two orphan needs. The truth of Matthew 25: 34 is becoming a reality both for the orphans and for the children, youth and adults of Hope Alive. Beginning October 1, the congregation will unite to display the love of Christ to orphans half way across the globe.
Support for Cui's heart surgery:
This precious little girl,Cui, is nine months old and in need of surgery to correct a congenital heart defect, a ventricular septal defect. A VSD is a type of heart defect in which there is a hole in the wall between the heart's lower chambers.
Funds will be raised for Cui's surgery from youth and adults contributing the money they would otherwise spend on themselves and transfering those funds to support the surgery costs. The goal is to raise $4,000.
October 18 UPDATE- Praise God! The goal has been met, and plans are being coordinated to prepare for Cui's heart surgery. Surgery is expected to be scheduled in November. We will keep you updated as new information is received. Thank you for your prayer support as Cui awaits and proceeds through surgery. Please pray for her body to be strengthened and able to have the surgery. November 10 UPDATE- Cui was examined by a doctor this week. The recommendation was to wait until Cui has grown some [gained strength and weight] before having the surgery. She will be evaluated again in 3 months. She will continue to be monitored during the wait.
December 23 UPDATE- Incredible news! Cui has been re-examined, and the doctors have found that the hole in her heart is smaller than before. If this healing continues, Cui will not need heart surgery. What a blessing for this little one. She will continue to be monitored, but for now, the surgery will not need to be scheduled. The funding for her surgery is being transfered to help two other babies who require heart surgery, Qi and Yi.
January 2007 UPDATE- We have received word that both Yi and Qi are out of surgery and recovering in ICU. What a gift to these two little girls.....a chance to live a healthy life. We continue to pray for their full recovery, and that this surgery will afford them the opportunity to be adopted into a family of their own.
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