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Vol 1 Issue 2
Dear Friends,
Mayfia has not had an easy life. Her father died when she was four
years old, and then she was passed around between multiple Aunts.
For the past two years she has been with her Mother, but not going
to school. At 10 years old, she has only completed 1st grade.
When her single, unemployed mother became pregnant she decided to
send Mafia to her father’s family in a far away village. Mafia was
so scared, she ran away. Her mother refused to look for her.
Thankfully she was returned by an Aunt (from a distant city where
the girl had fled) who talked her mother out of sending Mafia away
to the village.
Mayfia is hopeless. Unwanted by her mother, yet too afraid to leave,
she is facing a life of illiteracy, child labor, and continued
neglect and malnutrition.
We are partnering with another organization looking for a Christian
family who can love and accept Mafia as she is, who will work to
give her hope and a future. In the mean time, we are feeding and
caring for Mafia, and helping her catch up on some of her missed
schooling during the days.
Larry & Beki
Leadership Training!
Our current
living room/bedroom has also turned into a classroom! Saturday
morning, GWMI Ghana leadership gathered around our make shift table
for worship and bible study. With both mature Pastors, and newer
believers, we are studying together how God desires to be
worshipped.
Two of the men had to leave their village at 3 AM, and the third
Pastor leads all night prayer meetings on Friday nights! Their
dedication and thirst for the Lord, is contagious.
For more pictures, and a short clip of our worship time led by
Pastor Bernard, please visit
www.GodofWonder.org/videos.htm
Children's Home
Due to the season of traditional
festivals, the finishing work has been slow in the Children’s Home.
Josiah and Gracie have inspected the newly leveled football field,
which they are very excited about! The mason, carpenter, and
painters are all due to come and finish their projects, as we
eagerly await the next stage of the installation of electricity to
the home!
Please pray for completion, and favor in setting up this refuge for
the neediest children of the Central Region of Ghana. For more
pictures of the home’s progress,
www.GodofWonder.org/photo-album.htm
Jail House Rock!
When
our friend Pastor Andrew, was thrown in jail, while doing his job
for another organization, God showed up!
The cell was cramped, and there was no place to lie down. The
port-a-potty was overflowing with sewage. The food brought in was
not edible. Known for worshiping Jesus, wherever he goes, Pastor
Andrew began praising the Lord in the cell with the 6 other inmates.
They prayed and praised God all night long. Two of the inmates had
been held for over 3 months in the cell. The next day, one of the
men was released, and the other was given a court date where he
could post bail. Pastor Andrew was released, and charges dismissed,
after two days of serving Jesus in the jail.
Pastor Andrew is enrolled at University of Ghana continuing his
education. If you would like to help us purchase a laptop for him to
use in class, please send a special gift, with a note “For Pastor
Andrew’s Laptop”.
Get involved!
Providing a home
for up to 60 children in the coming year is impossible… without the
GOD OF
WONDERS!
The children’s facility is nearly complete, but we need your help to
make it a
HOME
for orphans…
 *
Can you organize your family, friends, church group, or organization
to adopt a project?
Item Needed
_________________ Amount to raise $____ Target date of ______
Sponsor
a child’s initial medical and clothing needs? $225/child, To
raise $_____
* Can
you or your friends sponsor a child at
$125/mo $62.50/mo $42/mo
$31/mo ?
Organization/Group______________________ Contact Name
________________
Phone ________________
Email_______________________________________
 
It's Simple Math . . . .
In
Ghana,
West Africa
:
facility requirements
+
staff to child ratios
+
nutritional needs
+
medical needs + administrative costs + diesel $4.50 /gallon
=
a quality of life much better than a thatched
roof hut!
Get involved!
Click here
and print the form to get started.
God of Wonder
Ministries, Int.
7611 Downstream
Court
Fredericksburg, VA
22408-8806
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