Thanks for your prayers.

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,

                2011 has been an exciting year for all of us at Freedom’s Hope Ministry, Inc./LIFE Aid Foundation, since God has enabled us to increase the scope of our ministry work in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Uganda, and a little in Nepal because of your giving.  When Mike lost his earthly paying job for the cause of Christ we knew that particular avenue of ministry in the school where he was working was probably over for him,  and began working more in the international aspect of the ministry, which is a great help, as well as working on proposals for possible grants for a truly Christian center for troubled teen boys who really desire help.  We are praying for God to open up that avenue of local ministry if indeed it is God’s will for this time.  We know He will provide for the work He has called us to do, just as He has been showing us through His miraculous provision since our income was cut by almost 2/3, both for our family and the ministry.  God has actually made it possible to expand some facets of the ministry in these countries mentioned above this year as He himself has placed it on individual’s hearts to give for certain aspects of the ministry.  We will give you a quick summary of what God has enabled us to do this year through your prayers and generous gifts.  You have made this possible by cheerfully giving a portion of God’s provision for you. We can’t thank you enough for opening your heart to the spiritually and physically needy around the world.

                In India, our overseer was able to visit many of the indigenous pastors and the ministries they are doing.  After the first ministry trip, Bro. Peter let us know of some urgent needs in some children’s homes for orphans, where the directors/house parents who took the children into their homes.  We prayed God would allow us to help with these steadfast workers for the Kingdom of God and He did.  We have not been able to help very much but even the $20 - $40 in a month makes a gigantic difference in the lives of the children.  It means the difference between the children having food or not having it; having an education or not getting one; and having clothes to wear or not having them.  These are the things we’ve been able to do for these little ones that God cares for so very much.   Below are pictures of the children we’ve been able to help in India this year.

Fe   Feeding the 70 children at Good Shepherd's Home in India              Bala Sundaram and children in India during Peter's visit.

Masilimani cares for 18 children in his home.  Some are pictured           Michaela volunteers her time many days a week to teach these

here with the 2 bags of rice and vegetables which he was able to            poor children and others how to read, write, and about Jesus.

purchase for the children with only $18 USD.                                       We have been supplementing for the costs.

Peter Naveen (LAF overseer in India) with his wife, Subasini, and his son, Kamal.  Peter and Suba put together gift packages for 133 children  in these children’s homes combined during the 3^rd week of Dec. 2011, with the help of a couple relatives.  We have also been paying for a motorbike, which Peter and Suba are using to get from place to place for ministry.  They (together) actually picked up;        1. detergent soap for clothes, 2. bathing soap,3. face powder, 4. face cream, 5. Vaseline (cold cream for body) very much useful at this winter season in India, 6. pen, and 7. tooth paste on that small motorbike. We’re hoping to add Scripture booklets in the Telugu language.  They were out of stock currently, so Peter is looking for other sources.

In Nepal:  This year we’ve been able to be a conduit for the generous support coming in monthly for Gentle Hearts Foundation (with 12 children in Arjun and Shobha’s care now, the costs have risen above this support, so we pray for funds for additional support for this loving children’s home where the children are learning daily about Jesus.  This year 3 of the older boys accepted Jesus as their Savior and requested baptism in water. This is total success.)

 at Gentle Hearts                                                      Gentle Hearts Family in Nepal.                            Bro. Pawan with Nani after 6

being baptized in water.                         Houseparents/Founders, Arjun and Shobha Dhakal back left.           surgeries for the severe burns.

after confessing Jesus as                    With a growing family, there are growing costs, so they are in            Thank you for your prayers and

His Savior.                                          need of additional support.                                        financial help to make the surgeries

                                                                                                     possible.  She is needing additional

                                                                                                      medical care for urinary problems.

By God’s grace and provision we were able to provide Nepalese Bibles for Bro. Silvanus and Bro. Ruben Rasali who work in different areas of Nepal.  We were also able to be instrumental in helping Nani, a 7 yr. old girl (pictured above with Pawan who rescued her and helped her 6 necessary surgeries. She was severely burned by her natural mother who wanted to get more money begging to feed her alcohol addiction. Together we helped Pawan and Silvanus (indigenous ministers) financially to help Nani get the care she needed. Now she is in a Christian home with Pawan, who found her. Now she wears a beautiful smile and knows real love for the first time in her young life.

Through the generosity of "Faith Comes by Hearing", who donated Proclaimers for use by two of our indigenous pastors working and living in countries opposed to the Gospel of Jesus, the Gospel is going forth in remote villages and among poor kiln workers.  The seed of Truth is being planted and watered and God Himself is giving the increase.

We have just begun an additional exciting project, January 2012, in one of these countries whereby an indigenous trained teacher goes to one of the very remote villages to teach the children to read, write, and share with them the love of our Lord and Master for them and their families.  These villages are begging to have their children taught, so they will not continue to be illiterate.  Two teachers are now actively teaching as of the first week of January in two different villages and we expect to be able to sponsor a 3rd one soon with the help of a 3rd donor.  So now, we have 3 sponsors for 3 teachers.  The cost to support one teacher for one month is only $100 USD at this time.  It used to be $80, but costs have increased.  We are praying for 9 more teachers for 9 additional villages.  This effort will touch 100's, if not thousands of families over time.  If you'd like to be a part of this project, please let us know.  We've put a couple of pictures below, but dare not put more than this, since we want to protect our Father's workers in the vineyard.

Our dear friend and brother in the Lord,Silvanus, (one of the ministers we help when we can,) in Nepal sent us this sad and serious information with pictures about a little 7 year old girl, called Nani,  found helpless and terribly burned covering nearly from her waste down.  She was left by one of the Hindu holy temples.  We want to help her. By sending out this information and pictures of the severity of her condition, we pray all of you will pray for her healing and a Christian family to take her in to their home to become a part of their family.  We are also hoping that one of those parents in Nepal, especially in Kathmandu, will open their hearts and home to Nani and trust God to provide. PLEASE contact us if you feel led to help Nani in any way or would like for us to e-mail more information and pictures to you of Nani and the burns she has suffered.  I can't get the file to upload here.

Thank you very much!!!!!!!

Mike and Londa

"Hello! How are you Mom Londa and your family? We here, everybody is good.except me :) Why?  because my hemoglobin level is so below normal.  My doctor suggested to have a blood transfuse.Because now I feel pain on my breast side; the doctor said that was the result of low level of hemoglobin because the oxygen can't pass properly, it will take away the pain when the blood transfuse will be done.I need at least 3 bags of blood.So now I'm looking for possible person willing to donate financially for blood to buy. .Mom if someone who is welling there to donate you can refer me :) please! i need badly. The cost of per bag $50 including the cross matching of blood. I thank you so much!"

Paul

Paul is also in great need of a kidney transplant.  He is on dialysis.  He is a young man, in his twenties or early thirties.

Please take a look at the pictures below.  If God puts on your heart a desire to help them replace the destroyed books, please either donate online or via mail, payable to Freedom's Hope Ministry, Inc., of which LIFE Aid Foundation is our international arm.  Either way, please mark your gift for Mustard Seed in the Philippines and we'll get that donation to them right away.  God bless you and thanks for looking.

Written by Londa

In May, 2010, Bro. Rupert Buscato, our overseer in the Philippines, got a vision to reach out to the very poor children in the Mambatagan school, where some of the poorest  children in Cagayan de Oro city (where he lives,) attend school after one friend of his on FB sent him a  generous gift of school supplies for poor children in his area. This simple and wonderful gift inspired the bigger   vision of giving these children a real nutritious meal once a month, since a large percentage of them are from such poor families that they have to come to school without having anything for breakfast and they often had nothing for lunch either. In so doing, the parents and families of these children would begin to feel God’s love in action for the first time in their lives.  In order to put this vision into action, he needed to let others know about the project that began to burn in his heart to help these children and their families, since he is currently doing the work for FHM/LAF dept. without pay and his own family has very limited income, but felt they had more than the families in the area where  he felt led to start this ministry work.  So, he started talking to his new friends on FB, letting them know what he was planning to do.  Since then, God has moved in many of their hearts to give $20 a month or more as they are able to make this project a reality and a VERY BIG SUCCESS for the Kingdom of God.

 Now, after  6 months of diligent work on the part of Bro. Rupert , his wife and children and the generous gifts of our Christian brothers and sisters around the world,   Bro. Rupert  is doing a weekly Bible Study with 34 new believers regularly attending.  Not only are they being discipled  in their new faith, but together these brothers and sisters on FB did and are doing what Michael and Londa at headquarters just could not do by themselves.  They have provided money for Bibles in the Bisayan language , one per family represented at the Bible Studies, and these families are now getting to have some rice for their families, also., besides the meal for their youngest children one time each month. The parents of the children have been  cooking the monthly meal for the children with the food provided by the generous gifts of God’s people who have heard about this project from Bro. Rupert or someone else who heard about it from them.  Already there has been a large harvest of souls for the Kingdom of God, and more all the time.  They are growing in their new found faith and telling others.  Teachers are being positively affected and even the principal.  They are truly seeing God’s love in action and before this ministry effort of reaching out to 236 young children with some food and school supplies.  We want to thank all of  you who have and are currently participating in this remarkable work of the Lord in the Philippines. 

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A special thanks to Del Monte

Philippines for

donating

pineapple juice and fruit cups, which make our gifts of love go farther

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Update on Africa Life Youth Foundation in Uganda

Africa Life Youth Foundation, one of the projects we help support, directed by Richard Sempala,  is dedicated to training up the next generation of youth leaders and equipping youth groups and leaders around Uganda and across East-Africa to most effectively reach the youth in their area. Africa Life Youth Foundation hosts large scale evangelistic events, making united stands for righteousness, that see young people impacted with the Gospel and making decisions for Christ..

   http://www.africalyf.org

As part of this essential training of the youth, ALYF is holding Youth Camps from Dec. 10, 2010—Jan. 5, 2011.

After 7 days of training, Teams of youths will be going to do field work for 20 days in different places; each Team will have 30 youths plus 3 leaders.  They will be helping to renovate elder’s homes which need repair, building homes for homeless people in Northern Uganda. (Some people, like in Karamoja sleep in mountain caves, others on trees.) In areas of Northern Uganda and some parts of Kenya, Rwanda, and Congo, homes are built from grass and becomes a great danger to lives of people, like in times of civil war, rebels just start homes on fire, burning the people inside.  Little kids also cause fires which burn homes as they play games. Your donation of US $2500.00 will help a family to have home of 2 rooms with a toilet. Any donation sent to Freedom’s Hope Ministry, Inc., specified for ALYF will be sent directly to them and the gift is tax deductible for  USA citizens.

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New Life Children’s Home Society Ministry Project in India

He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will reward him for what he has done.” (Prov 19:17

Every 30 seconds a child dies from hunger-related causes, Thousands of children around the state have no place to call home. Somewhere a little girl is hungry …a tiny infant shudders in pain …suffering with a disease that could have been prevented…a little boy wonders why his mother and father have disappeared.  They endure unimaginable living conditions without any hope of a better future. Even worse, many of these children will never be able to hear that Jesus loves and cares for them.

New Life Children’s Home  is working to alleviate this tragic reality with homes, education and health care for the children. NLCHSwas established to touch the lives of these needy, lovely children. Room and board as well as clothing, schooling, medical care are provided for these abandoned children. “As they live with us, we not only meet their physical and emotional needs, but also raise them up in a Godly environment.” There are hundreds of children waiting and seeking shelter at NLCHS. In the face of these great needs you can pray and give better hope to them. We , at FHM/LAF, desire to reach out in love to these needy children. 

As a beginning of this effort, we asked our Indian LAF overseer to personally visit Bro. Ravi Kumar and the ministry he has with NLCHS, the widows, and the poor.      The report Bro. Peter brought back to us was very positive and the work being done is really phenomenal with very few resources.  We believe God would like for us to share the needs there with you, so you have opportunity to  give.  Bro. Peter is going there again bringing 7 saris for some of the poor women. And while there he will be sharing the Gospel and we are believing for many people to come to the Lord.

Ravi Kumar (left) is the director and founder of NLCHS in the village of Dommeru. They provide food for 30 orphans and school for 130 children. The rental fee for the building for school is 80,000 rupees ($1770 USD) per year & was previously  paid for by a friend of Bro. Ravi’s in the USA.  The friend can no longer send financial support due family problems.  Without a way to meet this need each year, they have no place to educate all these children.  Please lift this need up to the Lord in prayer.

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Good Shepherd Home needs Latrine doors,    Laundry tubs and  Water buckets.

On the left is a picture of 1 of 11 latrine doors, needing replaced at GSH  orphaned/abandoned children’s ministry in Narsapur, India, where we have been helping to provide basic food for over 5 years for 50 children.  Their laundry tubs are now broken like the one pictured on the right.  The water buckets are all leaking and have become so rusty they are orange all over the bottom.  This is not healthy for carrying their drinking water.  They desperately need replacements

We can’t give God enough  praise .The water buckets have also been paid for.  Next newsletter we plan to show pictures of the new doors, laundry tubs for the children to wash  their clothes in and water buckets.  We thank the Lord and the generous gifter who met these needs for the children.

Join with us in praise to God for answered prayer so quickly.

Christian Pen Pals for new Ghanian believers

Recently, at the request of  Bro. Gideon, our LAF overseer in Ghania, we implemented a new  Pen Pal program whereby young Christian girls (teenage or young adult age) who are strong in their faith, are connected with a Ghanian teenage girl who is a new believer to write to.  Many of these girls have lived on the streets and been sucked into worldly lives prior to becoming Christians.  They need the encouragement and strength of a true friend and sister in the Lord, who can help them become strong in their faith. So far, we have 2 girls who have graciously taken their time to be a friend to 2 girls in Ghana.  If any other girls, strong in their Christian faith would like to help other girls grow spiritually and expand their own spiritual growth, please let us know. We will need to have a recommendation letter from a Christian brother or sister who knows you well, if the FHM directors don’t know you personally and you must be pre-approved before being given anybody’s contact information.  Please get in touch with us.

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Help us help Gentle Heart Children’s Home in Nepal

Gentle Heart Foundation, as it is now called, focuses on the following objectives and you are welcome to join your helping hand for any  of the following programs. You can Touch the lives and show the love of Godto the needy, orphaned & underprivileged children of Nepal and it’s communities by joining your helping hand with ours.

· Salvation/Evangelism

· Rescue & Restoration

· Rehabilitation

· Education / Training

· Medication

GHCH focuses on the vulnerable children and widows who are living in difficult circumstances… you have golden opportunity to share your helping hand

Please go to

 http://ghchnepal.org/      to

learn more about the wonderful work they are doing.  We have featured them before and help them as much as we can. We desire to help them more so they can help more children. We gladly send  $ designated  for GHCH to them. (Tax deductible in the USA)

“I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” – Matthew 25:40

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Never underestimate the impact you can make by touching even one young life with the love of Jesus!

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Gracious School in Tanzania

Tumaini and Magdalene, who started Gracious School several years ago, have been doing a fantastic job of providing a free education for the poor children outside of Arusha (the capital city).  Many of the students are from Muslim families, but they are willing to have their children taught about Jesus in order for them to receive a good education, including being taught English.  The children are also taught how to take care of their bodies better by learning to keep clean, fix their hair, etc.

Currently, these amazing ladies and two others who have also donated much time, have been agreeing in prayer for a piece of land for expanding the school grounds.  The particular piece of land they hope to be able to acquire is a banana plantation adjacent to the small school property they now have.  They ask all of us to join with them in prayer for the needed land, whether this one or another even better property that they don’t know about.

Previously, FHM/LAF was  able to help them to have locks on their doors and windows, so they could leave their school supplies in the classroom at night without having to pack them back and forth each day on their backs.  This has been a big blessing.

The children are coming home to their  relatives or caregivers (many or orphans) with new stories of Jesus and His love for them and some of the families are now becoming believers in the true God and His Son, Jesus Christ.  It is an awesome opportunity to spread the Gospel.

We pray and agree with Tuma and Magda that God will meet all of their needs for the ministry He has put on their hearts.  If God puts it on your heart to help them, please note “Gracious School” on your check , money order, or PayPal message, so we will get it to the ministry arm you desire.  Thank you for your help.

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Isaiah 58:6-9

 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen; to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I."

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You can donate to FHM at our either of our websites.

http://lifeaidfoundation.org/

http://fhm.spruz.net/main.asp

Your donation is tax deductible in the USA.

Beginning with our Newsletter 21, we will be posting it under the "News" link.  Please take time to read what God has been doing and what you can be a part of if you desire.