Help A Child Get to Camp
Help a child in Mazatlan attend Camp De Futbol. A week long camp where they learn about Jesus and have fun playing soccer & volleyball.
$30 will help sponsor them with a tshirt, a Bible and a week of fun.
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Child Sponsorship Mazatlan
Mexico is a diverse blend of cultures and traditions. Sponsored children of the GO Child Sponsorship Program currently reside in Mazatlan, Mexico in the state of Sinaloa. These children have descended from primarily Native American and Spanish populations. Mazatlan is Mexico’s largest commercial port, located on the west coast of Mexico on the Pacific Ocean directly across from the tip of Baja California. As a large commercial city, Mazatlan has a growing population working in a variety of industries. To the tourist, Mazatlan is a beautiful stretch of beach hotels. Away from the beach, most of the population lives in poverty. Many people work in the fishing industry and love seafood. The average worker earns just $4 a day. Mexicans primarily speak Spanish, the country’s official language. Mexicans love tradition, family, culture, and soccer.
In poorer neighborhoods, children have limited access to education. Poor children commonly marry at a very young age and have several children. Children generally do not leave home until they marry. It is not uncommon to have several generations living in one home.
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Children in the sponsorship program in Mazatlan frequently maintain a strong connection to a family member, whether aunt, uncle, grandmother or parent. Mexicans value the family. Their children and grandchildren respect parents and grandparents.
Target Population for this Sponsorship Program:
1. Children Living In Poverty (families living in poverty frequently send children to school without breakfast)
2. Orphans (children are often left behind when fathers and mothers try to immigrate to the United States)
3. Handicapped Orphans (children with disabilities are often abandoned due to the amount of care and economic pressure on parents)
4. Single parent families (many young mothers are abandoned by the fathers of their children)
5. Multi generational families (families often have 3 or more generations living in a house leaving little food for children)
6. Children of unemployed or under employed parents
7. Children of seasonal or unskilled (illiterate) parents
Sponsor Commitment
1. $35 per month for one year
2. Regular prayer for your child
3. Writing a letter to your sponsored child at least two times per year (further details and guidelines are available from GO)
GO Commitments to sponsors
1. A picture of your child will be provided along with their name, age and brief bio information.
2. A letter from your child to you two times per year.
3. Organizing a trip to visit your sponsored child in Mexico for all sponsors who wish to go.
4. Ensuring that education, clean water, nutritious food and health care are provided for your child.
5. As a registered non-profit, charitable agency, GO will provide sponsor with a tax-deductible receipt for your donations to this ministry.
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Child Sponsorship Senegal
Since the early 1990’s the number of street children has been increasing at an alarming rate in Senegal. These children do not have the access to the resources that would give them the power to change their lives – education, clean water, nutritious food and health care. This tragedy is eating away at every aspect of the Senegalese society. Despair and hopelessness is evident and heartbreaking in the eyes of these children. 40% of the 12.3 million people of Senegal have never attended school. 48% of those who do reach working age are unemployed. In spite of officials promising for two decades now to intervene on behalf of these children, the problem has actually gotten worse.
In the face of these realities, the women of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Thies, Senegal felt the urgent need for the creation of a Christian school that would offer opportunities to these poorest and most marginalized members of Senegalese Society. In the few years the school has existed, it has already grown to over 530 students from kindergarten through high school ages. In that same number of years, the efforts of these women have inspired the launch of 8 similar schools around their nation. And still, there are hundreds more children simply waiting for a sponsor to make it possible for them to access education, health and spiritual transformation these Christian schools offer.
Target Population for this Sponsorship Program:
1. Orphans (street children are everywhere you look in any larger town or city)
2. Handicapped (viewed by some as cursed by Allah)
3. Single parent families (life expectancy is considerable shorter than in America)
4. Subsistent farmers (still a large portion of the population)
5. Large families (Moslem men are allowed and often expected to have up to four wives)
6. Children of unemployed parents (the unemployment rate in Senegal is 48%)
7. Children of seasonal or unskilled (illiterate) parents
Sponsor Commitment
1. $35 per month for one year
2. Regular prayer for your child
3. Writing a letters to your sponsored child three to four times per year (further details and guidelines are available from GO)
GO Commitments to sponsors
1. A picture of your child will be provided along with their name, age and brief bio information.
2. A letter from your child to you three to four times per year.
3. Organizing a trip to visit your sponsored child in Senegal for all sponsors who wish to go.
4. Ensuring that education, clean water, nutritious food and health care are provided for your child .
5. As a registered non-profit, charitable agency, GO will provide sponsor with a tax-deductible receipt for your donations to this ministry.
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Bremerton Rescue Mission
Bremerton Rescue Mission is now serving in three weekly meal sites in Bremerton and will be launching a fourth site in partnership with Project Back-Pack in Poulsbo this spring. The mission is serving about 115 meals per week. Each site is different. Monday is outdoors at Rocket Coffee on Kitsap Way; Wednesday is indoors at Coram Deo Church on Hwy 303 (5951 Hwy 303) and Friday is completely indoors and is the most popular of the three sites. The Mission Guy truck serves the Monday and Wednesday sites. It will also serve the students and students’ families that participate in Project Back-pack each week.
Two projects on the horizon for the mission include the establishment of a recovery, or discipleship, house in Bremerton where men find stability and sobriety in a Christ-honoring environment.
The other project is to turn the Mission Guy truck into a lunch wagon business in Bremerton, staffed by the men or women who participate in the missions’ recovery houses.
The mission exists to deliver help and hope. Hope ultimately leads to transformation. Thus, the mission exists to see the people we serve at dinner time transformed by the power of Jesus whether by compassion, friendship, community or by intentional discipleship and work therapy.