Living Hope

Dear Friends and Partners,

We trust you are doing well and that you have a wonderful Christmas season. I trust you have a brilliant time of family celebration, of gifts and giving and of thanksgiving to God for His faithfulness.

Let me update you on our funding situation for our Life Skills department, which falls under the Prevention ministry.(Now known as the Living Right ministry of Living Hope.) It has been quite a challenge to find the money we need to keep this department going. Many of you have started to give individually and we now have about 60 DADs (people who are giving a Dollar A Day). I would still encourage you to give to the DAD program so that we can see a longer term sustainable solution which will keep the Living Hope workers in place in this very much needed ministry to children. Other churches have organised fun runs and have given as generously as they can to help us towards the funding of the Life Skill Educators. We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity. We really appreciate it.

In recent discussions with the Living Hope staff it has been suggested that if the entire staff were willing to take a 15% cut in salary then we might be able to continue to keep a slightly smaller group of Life Skill Educators. The staff are thinking through this. My dream is that we would be able to get all the nearly $350,000 that we need without having to lay off anyone or radically reduce salaries.