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20 May
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In the nursery –The Days I Don’t Talk About

“Leave it! Just let her die!” I jumped up off of the bench, Bella still cradled tightly in my arms. “No, no, you can’t say that!” I told the new mother who had spoken these words. Her little girl was born the day before weighing 800 grams (1 lb. 13 oz.), and she was still fighting for life. I had never once seen the mother come near her child. Upon the hospital’s suggestion that her daughter be transferred to another hospital for...

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26 Apr
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2015 Report of Expenditures

2015 pie chart of expenditures Each year, in transparency to our partners, contributors and friends, I publish an update of how the ministry of Love Alive has used it’s contributions in the previous year. This past year, specifically evangelistic endeavors accounted for 17% of the budget. These endeavors include, Bible trainings, giving Bibles, Bible clubs and Bible Schools for children.

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25 Apr
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Turning My Trials into Triumphs

Rwanda Missions Trip – 2016 Rwanda, Africa; called “the land of a thousand hills,” it is a little country on the East side of Africa. Rwanda is a country full of extreme poverty, a country that lost thousands of people in the Rwandan Genocide in the 1990’s. It is also a country of people that are full of God’s love and aren’t afraid to show it. The idea of going on a mission trip actually started 20 yrs. ago. Church friends of...

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17 Oct
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Mission Team 2015

Earlier this month a joint mission team led by Poplar Grove, and joined by members of Steven’s Street Baptist Church and Vine Branch all of Cookeville, TN blessed me with their time, their love and compassion, their hard work, and times of Bibles study with hundreds of Rwandans in many locations. This team was a blessing last year, and they were just as much of an encouragement and support to the people and ministry this year. The first day, the team ministered...

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17 Oct
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Baby Love

She is Abandoned. Helpless. Orphaned. Unknown. Unnamed. And yet, she is A Miracle. A Fighter. Survivor. Gift of God. Precious. Dearly Loved. Divinely created for a special purpose. She is Baby Love. Our relationship with our local hospital through which we have established our program to provide medical care to those who would otherwise be without treatment has become a lovely working relationship with fellow-Christian hospital administrators who readily communicate with us. I have learned of their sacrifices and their great care, often trying to...

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17 Oct
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SEAM Program Sponsor a Woman Through Vocational Training, Impact her Life Forever

Imagine life without the hope of ever being able to send all of your children to school (or even to send more than 1 per year to school), to live in a place with electricity or running water (even clean water), to sleep in a bed with a mattress rather than on a mat on dirt floor, to ever learn a skill or trade or even have a steady job (rather than making $1 per day working in fields.) Women...

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17 Oct
3

The Boy Who Wants a Leg

He doesn’t remember the accident. He has no recollection of having two good legs. They tell him it was an accident that caused it. He knows only that he was very young when his mother died, and that when he was far too young to remember, his father also abandoned the children. What he does know is that 3 years ago, when he was only 9 years old, he had had enough of the abuse by relatives. He climbed in...

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28 Mar
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Women in our Sewing Centers: Their Stories.

Marie: widowed with 2 children, third grade education. Fabiola: Single, 20 years old, 5 siblings, sixth grade education. Jeannette: mother of 4 children, abandoned by her husband, sixth grade education. Joyce: married, two children, husband seeks day-to-day work, she has a first grade education. Gloriosa: Mother of 5 children, husband has difficulty finding work due to handicap. She has a third grade education. Sephora: One child, no husband, no parents, no siblings, no support systems, fifth grade education. Florence: Married mother of three, disabled from a...

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28 Feb
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Love Alive Expenditures 2014 Full Disclosure for Our Donors.

In full transparency of how funds donated to Love Alive International were spent in 2014, I would like to share with you charts identifying expenditures as well as a brief explanation of each category. Education: $13,494.13    In 2014, you helped us sponsor 140 children in nursery school, primary and secondary schools. Sponsorship includes the children’s school fees, uniforms and all necessary school supplies. For grades Primary 6 through secondary school sponsorship also includes school lunch. The education expenses paid this...

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25 Feb
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February 2015 Update.

Dear Family, Friends and Partners of Love Alive, Psalm 145:3 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable. I cannot believe three months have passed by since I last updated you. Before I plunge into the news and updates, let me just praise our Heavenly Father who is working here and blessing this ministry. Next I wish to thank each and every one of you for your prayers and your taking part in this ministry....

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