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Helping Hands
The Helping Hands program was started in October, 2012, as a way to support the nutritional, medical and educational needs of over 1100 children at Hope Refuge Schools in Kachamo and Kenkebu, Uganda. Many times the children receive only a bowl of rice or corn mush per day. Our goal is to provide 2 meals per day and include a source of protein such as beans. There are also continuous medical needs among the children. Our sponsorship program helps purchase medical supplies and care from from doctors and nurses. Sponsoring a child also provides necessary school supplies and uniforms.
$35.00 per month will enable one child to have adequate food, clothing, basic medical care and educational needs. 100% of sponsorship funds go directly to the Hope Refuge School to provide these needs.
Our goal is to have 100 children sponsored by the end of 2014. If you would like to sponsor a child please contact Linda Burke at linda@faithapostolic.us and you will received a packet with a photo and information about a child. If you want go ahead and donate immediately, you can do so on this site and we will credit your donation toward the sponsorship you receive from Linda. If you know someone else who has a desire to make a great impact on the life of a child, please tell them about the Helping Hands Project and encourage them to become a sponsor. May God richly bless you for your care and giving to the Helping Hands program.
I John 3:17-18: “But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dewelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but indeed and truth”
FAC Photo A Day
Why?
- To stay connected and build relationships within our church family.
- To be entered weekly for a Starbucks card.
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How to play!
- Check out the photo a day list.
- Take a photo that relates to the item for that day….be creative!
- Once you have taken the photo, share it with us on our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account (see below for more details).
- Make sure to add #facphotofun so everyone can see your photo.
- Check out everyone else’s photos. You can browse through them on our Facebook group page, on instragram or on twitter….just look for the #facphotofun hashtag to see them all.
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Where to play?
- Instagram: Just upload your photo, use a fancy filter, add a caption and the hashtag #facphotofun and then share.
- Facebook: You will need to join our photo group at : http://www.facebook.com/groups/facphotofun/ . Then you can post your pictures in there and comment on other peoples pictures.
- Twitter: You can share on Twitter by uploading the photo and sharing the hashtag #facphotofun.
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What’s about the Starbucks card?
There are 2 ways to win:
Weekly: Every time you upload a picture with the #facphotofun hashtag on any of the sites mentioned above, your name will be entered into the weekly drawing. If you upload a picture every day, your name will be entered 7 times. At the end of each week, we will draw a random name and that person will receive a $5 Starbucks card. Please note, you must be present at church to win.
Grand Prize: At the end of March, anyone who has uploaded a picture every day will be entered for a $20 Starbucks card.
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What do the prompts mean?
We want you to be creative, but in case you need a little help:
3. C is for….: Pick something that begins with the letter C and snap it.
4. Love: What is something you love?
5. Blessing: Do you feel blessed? Put that into a picture!
6. Night: What are you doing tonight? Capture it!
7. Shadow: Look behind you? Behind someone else? What kind of shadow can you capture?
8. Favorite: Favorite person? Favorite place? Show us your favorite.
9. Important: What is important to you?
10. Inspiration: Who or what inspires you? Is there someone at FAC that inspires you? Snap a pic of them today!
11. What do you do for fun?: Show us what you did today for fun.
12. Up: Look up! Are you up high? Capture a cool picture!
13. Where I stood: Let us see where you stood today.
14. Stuff: Our lives are all filled with some sort of ‘stuff’. What’s your stuff?
15. Faithful: What is your definition of faithful? What is faithful in your life?
16. Happy: What makes you happy?
17. My church: Have a favorite spot at your church? A favorite tradition?
18. Dream: What are your dreams or aspirations?
19. Cup: Take a photo of a cup. Be creative!
20. Weather: Let us see what the weather is like today.
21. Technology: We all use it…now capture it!
22. I made this…: How clever are you? Take a photo of something you made. It could be a mess, dinner, something crafty or anything that you made yourself.
23. Play: Have some fun…show us how you like to play.
24. Your view: What’s your view like today?
25. Shoes: Take a photo of yours or somebody’s else.
26. Favorite Bible verse: Let us see your favorite verse.
27. Snack: Have a favorite snack? Don’t be embarrassed, show us what you like to eat.
28. Injustice: Today is Good Friday…take some time today to think about injustice and see if you can capture that in a picture.
29. Sacrifice: While we celebrate the greatest sacrifice ever made for us this weekend, use that to spur your creativity into a picture.
30. Grateful: Show us what you are grateful for the Easter Sunday!
March Calendar
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February Calendar
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Uganda Update
On January 1st – 11th, 2013, A group of 37 people, including 7 from Faith Apostolic Church traveled to Uganda to conduct a Vacation Bible School at the orphanage that our church is connected with in Kachomo.
Our Ugandan Vacation Bible School mission has now been completed and I want to report that the Lord is doing a great work in that nation! Our prayer going into this mission was that God would pour out His Spirit and that He would use us to see the orphans and the people of Uganda get baptized in Jesus’ Name. By the end of the week, our team was blessed with the opportunity to baptize 209 souls in Jesus’ Name. Many of the 209 people baptized were children and orphans who are attending our newly-built Hope Refuge School in the village of Kachomo.
Every year our team raises funds and awareness of the work that is going on in Uganda. This year we were able to raise 42,000 dollars. These funds will go toward meeting many of the needs of the orphans, teachers and churches in eastern Uganda. More specifically, the funds will put concrete on the floors in our existing buildings at the school and build one or two new building on the twenty-five-building complex. The funds also helped us purchase more farm land around the school. Our team has also been in contact with a NGO, which is similar to a not-for-profit in the USA that is called “Farming God’s Way.” This NGO will teach and train the leaders working with Bishop Wayabire on how to farm and cultivate the land to maximize a greater yield of crops. One of our goals is to get the school in Kachomo to a point where they are self-sustaining. Once this training and farming is completed, the farm will begin to produce food to feed the children attending our school.
The 42,000 dollars donated also funded the launching of a sponsorship program called “Helping Hands.” We currently have thirty-six children
sponsored at thirty-five dollars a month. This program has been a tremendous blessing to the orphans. I want to personally say thank you to all the sponsors we already have. However, we are looking to sponsor an additional fifty children in 2013. Thirty-five dollars a month will help feed and clothe them as well as send the child to school. This is a great way for you to make a difference in a child’s life and help our ALJC of Uganda work!
God did so many wonderful things on this missions trip. Of course the greatest thing was God pouring out His Spirit and moving on the hearts of the people to get baptized. I also want to share a testimony of how great our team was this year when it came to reaching souls. One night we were all back at the hotel in Kampala and our guest speaker this year, Sis. Vickie Oliver, was using her phone outside of the public restroom. She heard a lady yelling for help from the restroom. She was locked in the restroom and unable to get out! Sis. Oliver came and got me and we went to get the hotel manager to help the lady get out of the stall. The young lady was able to get out. We felt bad for her so we pitched in and bought her dinner. While she was eating, we all sat down with her and gave her a Bible study about being born again. She stopped eating and we prayed for her. Then one of our team members compelled her to get baptized that night at the hotel. She agreed to be baptized so we took her to one of the rooms. The ladies prayed for her and, before she got baptized, she was filled with the Holy Ghost. Taylor Fairbanks then baptized her in the bathtub in Jesus’ Name. Our team was so excited that they decided to go witness to one of the hotel workers. They prayed with her, God filled her with the Holy Ghost and they took her to the room and baptized her in Jesus’ Name! All of this happened on the last night of our trip. We all believed it was the Lord just stirring our hearts again to reach souls all over the world no matter what the cost.
Thank you again for all your prayers and to all the churches and individuals who were able to give to our Hope Refuge School in 2012. If you would like to give to the orphanage in Uganda, you can do so on this website under our online giving section.
We are looking forward to seeing what God is going to do in Africa this year! God bless you.
– Pastor Josh Wilson
December 2012 Events Calendar
Sure you can keep up with our events online, but sometimes it’s nice to have a copy to hang on the fridge! Hit the button below to download the latest FAC Events Calendar:
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Prayer Revival Update
We just wrapped up a seven-week long Prayer Revival at FAC! We had great crowds turn out each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings during the entire Prayer Revival. It’s amazing the things that have already happened in our church and in people’s lives because of this season of focused prayer. Things happen when we pray! We know this is true, yet seeing it first hand is so encouraging and exciting.
We have already had testimonies of healing, renewal, restoration and deliverance in the last seven weeks. We have baptized seven people during the prayer revival including a local pastor who came to the revelation of Jesus Name Baptism and has since baptized others in his congregation in Jesus Name! People we haven’t seen or heard from in a long time have been back to church or shared with us that God has been drawing them back to Him. Everyone who has participated in Prayer Revival has grown closer to God and gone deeper in the Spirit. It has rekindled our prayer lives and our desire to spend time in the presence of God. The Prayer Revival has also brought fresh fire and passion to our church services. It’s truly amazing what happens when we pray.
While it was a sacrifice for those who gathered week after week, the investment has already paid off a thousand times over. And we are sure that many blessings and answers are still to come.
Even though our special prayer services have concluded, let us be diligent in keeping prayer a part of our daily lives. Even though we are not meeting at the church each night to pray together, don’t fail to spend time on your own each day in prayer and devotion. I trust the Prayer Revival’s most lasting impact will be that whetted our appetites for a deeper, more disciplined, daily prayer life.
—Pastor Ball