Hi God bless you, we want to share with you the progress of our work with children
between the months of February - April 2014.
Lately weve been working with the children from the clubs using the discipleship program The Phillip Project for children This program is brought to Venezuela by the ministery: Bible League International. Its name is taken from Acts 8:26-40, the tale of Phillp and the Ethiopian eunich. The Phillip Project takes 8 to 12 months to complete and ofers the following: Book 1: Discovering Gods love, wich consist of 6 lessons: Discovering myself Discovering God Discovering Jesus Discovering what Jesus wants from me Discovering what Jesus does for children Discovering how a Christian person lives After finishing the 6 lessons the kids recive a certificate, book number 2, and a bible story book as a gift.
Discovering my relationship with God, consist of 7 lessons: My relationship with God My relationship with my family My relationship with adults My relationship with my friends My relationship with the world around me My relationship with the word of God My relationship with Gods commadments After finishing the 7 lessons the kids recive a certificate, book number3 and an illustrated new testament. Book 3: Discovering my commitment to God My commitment to God My commitment to Gods word My commitment to Christ Church My commitment to the churchs developement My commitment to myself The commitment of being a disciple of Jesus The commitment of a Phillip After finishing book number 3 the kids recive a certificate and an illustrated bible as a gift / reward for thier effort.
We wanted to explain the use of these materials, so you know the benefits children are reciving thanks to your donations to our ministery. This material reaches the hands of our little disciples completely free, without any kind of cost to them. Foundation Enamnuel through its alliance with Bible League international gets the material at a cost of 90bs per children ($2 to $6 per child, depending on the currency exchange that government has established at the time) not included the transportation cost which depends on the weight and amount of books that have been requested.
This material is subsidized by the Bible League International. At any bookstore the cost of this material would be of 1000bs per kid (100 to 150$) When a kid visits the G&L Club for first time we give him/her a contact book which is within the cost per child of the Phillip Project for children. We also work with The story of Jesus Christ which is a material donated by DavisCook, This material is totally free, the only expense is transportation from Caracas where the material is stored, to Cabimas. This must be covered by the organization that applied for the material in this case Foundation Enmanuel.
Since february of this year the team of Foundation Emanuel has been teaching a course on the Science and Art of Teaching Children and Youth Intersecion The purpose of this 1-year course is that each bible teacher can get the tools needed to teach and care for the children of their Sunday Schools, childrens clubs, and others child-care ministeries The majority of the teachers in the churches have jobs which have little or nothing to do with education 4 of the Foundation Enmauel team members are taking this course with 17 other people from 6 diferent churches, which makes a total of 21 students
The strategies learnd in this course are already being implemented in the G&L Clubs.
Creating a Personal Coat of Arms Shield. The purpose of this activity is that each child draw his own abilities and talents on the shield so they learn to value themselves
Drawing and story-writing where they are the protagonists, with the purpose of identifing how they see adults and how the relate with them
Drawing the ideal class: All the children said the ideal class should be on the beach or at the park, provide many games and candies, and never do homework again
Foundation Emanuel pays 200bs monthly for 3 out of 4 member that take the teaching course making it a total of 600bs ($40 to $60 U.S.) Since Gabriela Amor serves as a facilitator she is exonerated from the payment.
Thanks to the donations provided by each one of you, the gospel is being preached to many children in the city of Cabimas, and the State of Zulia, Venezuela. Thank you for your support, God Bless you!