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15 Jul
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$$ Where Did My Money Go? $$

Have you ever wondered how your financial gift was spent? It’s fairly simple. If you send money for a designated purpose from Bibles to sustainable projects to sponsorship, that money is 100% devoted to that purpose. There is no cut or percentage taken out for “operating costs,” or general use.  However, if you send money undesignated, this goes to whatever projects and needs we are currently working on. Things such as Sunday school trainings and salaries of teachers in our...

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15 Jul
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Rwanda News, July 2014

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:16 Dear Friends, We’ve been in a whirlwind of activity here, and I’d like to share with you a few highlights. Sunday School Training Last week, Love Alive hosted a 2-day seminar training church leaders on how to organize teach children’s Sunday school programs. Emphasis was made on the importance of children in the Bible, learning styles of children, effective teaching...

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12 Jun
1

Eyes to See

“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” St. Augustine She was one in a mass several hundred children that turned up for Bible school. I noticed her, in fact, I hugged her, patted her head and talked to...

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10 Jun
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Love: It’s Not All Cuddles and Fluff

Love, it’s a wonderful thing. It is what relationships are rooted in, what we thrive on, what we need more of in families, churches and society. Love is easy, even fun and gratifying when there is genuine gratitude, joyful reception, productivity and reciprocity, but what do we do when Love doesn’t seem to be working. I love the lighter side of love, it’s the side we find most joy in, and the perspective of love you’ll see in most of my photos...

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12 Mar
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When They Grow Up…….

By now you well know, I have this special place in my heart for children in the streets, well, all kids, but especially the little scruffy ragamuffins with no place they call home or little interest in being at the home they have. I look at these little ones… mostly boys, and I think about their futures. If they continue on the path they are on, they’ll surely end up uneducated, extremely poor, living extremely difficult lives to survive, or ending...

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12 Mar
2

So, what exactly is Love Alive?

I thought it might be time to explain. I’ve received checks written to Love the Life, Love is Life & Love of Life. We received tax documents addressed to Love Alice (surely to goodness it was a typo). Most recently a man commented to me. I like that you emphasize Love Alive. It is better for people to love while they are alive. Dead people cannot love. Had he not been fully serious, it may have been mistaken for stale humor. That’s when...

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12 Mar
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Love Alive Women’s Sewing Center, Kabuga.

I didn’t dream of this a year ago. In fact, my ideas were quite simple. I came to Rwanda simply with God as my guide. I simply wanted to show people His love, and trusted He would provide the ways. When last March we were able to provide a ladies group with 6 sewing machines I was thrilled. The women were blessed and excited, but that was as far as my plans went. Now, one year later, the ladies and their...

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11 Mar
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Here’s the latest in Rwanda

Dear Friends of Love Alive, It has been another blessed and busy month full of activity and new programs coming to fruition. I am reminded of Proverbs 16:9 wherein we read that we humans may make our plans and agendas, but it is God who will direct our ways. I am so thankful for a God who plans our every step. Admittedly, when I came to Rwanda, I had various ideas and plans, but very little concrete direction on how they...

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19 Feb
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Sick of his Tricks

I’m sick.  In the depths of my being I ache, and I’m angry at how Satan is fooling the masses. I’ve been asking God to increase my zeal to see souls brought to Him, that I would not be so focused on the temporal physical needs that I would lose the greater vision that each has an eternal soul that needs the Salvation of Jesus Christ and the fullness of a life lived for Him. Furthermore, I have begun praying for...

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21 Jan
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Sometimes while we’re praying that God will send someone, we realize that maybe He wants us to get up and go.

I was sitting on the street corner waiting for a friend when I saw them. One ragged little boy dug through a trash bin, found some bread and eagerly shared it with the other boys. I watched with pity, wishing there was something I could do. These little guys who live in the streets have a special place in my heart, but my ability to work with them or help them has been greatly limited by government...

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