Meal time…
Meal time at Living Love, what a great time of fellowship we had with the children!!
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Trying to get cell service…
Trying to get cell phone signal at the home;-)
Snapshots from Living Love, along with a video link
Work team arrived safely in Nairobi
The work team has arrived safely in Nairobi, Kenya and are staying at the Mennonite Guest House to sleep off the jet lag. Solomon from LLM will be meeting them after breakfast to transport the team to Nakuru. Continued prayers are appreciated as we begin the work here in Kenya.
Living Love Ministries Banquet
With grateful hearts we bring you a report from a meaningful and festive evening Living Love Ministries recently had.
LLM hosted its first fund-raising banquet at Shady Maple with a focus on raising funds for a new house. 220 people were there. Thanks to those of you that joined us at the banquet and for those of you that weren’t there … here’s a recap of the evening.
As people arrived, they were greeted by Solomon or a Living Love Board member at the registration table. They were given a brochure and a magnet about LLM and an updated picture of Solomon and his family. After entering the banquet room, they enjoyed appetizers, while browsing and shopping at tables covered with many beautiful items made in Kenya.
The wood-burned pictures were made by Solomon’s father
and the beautiful woven baskets by Eunice’s mother and other family members.
The LLM board members covered the evening’s program. Mel Nissley opened with a warm welcome and a prayer. After a delicious meal, Mark Kraybill shared some of the history of LLM. He was followed by a video made by Eric Cressman from footage Solomon brought of the children at the home singing and playing.
Janet Oberholtzer then interviewed Solomon about the home, the children and what he feels God is calling them to in the future. This transitioned into Ron Miller sharing about the finances needed to build the new house. Becky Jones closed the evening with a hopeful prayer.
Fund Raising Information
At LLM’s recent banquet, it was encouraging to hear Solomon share about the physical and spiritual progress the 16 children have made over the past year or more they’ve been at the home. Solomon and the board’s desire is to give that care to more vulnerable children. Since the existing house is full, plans have to be made for a new house.
To give the children a comfortable, stable and safe house to live in, LLM is looking to build a new house that will hold 2 sets of houseparents and 24 children. The center of the house will have a living room and a kitchen, then each wing will have a bedroom for houseparents and bedrooms for the children.
(one wing for boys and one for girls)
It takes both Solomon and the staff in Kenya, along with the financial giving of people thousands of miles away to make projects like this happen. The estimated cost of the house is around $40.000 (US dollars). To cover any unexpected costs, LLM is looking to raise $50,000 this fall.
At the banquet* a little over half was raised. We praise God for that and we thank each of you that already gave toward the new house.
We have exciting news! A few generous donors have offered to match any donations given between now and the end of the year. (up to $15,000) So if you, the gracious supporters of LLM, give a combined total of any amount up to $15,000, the donors will match that. If the total is raised, this will give LLM an additional $30,000 which would allow us to begin construction soon.
As Ron Miller, our treasurer, stated at the banquet, we know that the economy is tough right now and many are struggling, so we understand not everyone can give, but if you can, we thank you for prayerfully considering giving a gift to LLM this year.
Donations can be sent to:
Living Love Ministries
12002 Arnold Road
Orrville, OH 44667