Help us work in Lae, PNG
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My name is Dave, I am a husband to Cheree, and a father to three sons - Nikolas, Isaac, and Calvin - and one daughter - Madison. I am a carpenter by trade, and also have some experience in other aspects of building.
I am going to be working with a group called City Mission PNG, in the city of Lae. Lae, like the larger city of Port Moresby, has a great deal of poverty, a great deal of homelessness, a great deal of crime, a great deal of unemployment, and a great deal of suffering. Lae City Mission aims to help the people of Lae, by giving them a hand up: the boys coming in off the streets are trained and taught skills which they will be able to use once they leave; skills which enable them to provide for themselves, to be in a better position than when they first came in. All this, and connected with the Gospel!
My role will be to work alongside the boys, as they become young men - and future elders, deacons, preachers, and teachers - teaching, guiding (and probably learning a whole bunch myself).
But, to be able to do this, we need to get there.
While we will be provided with a house to call home, transport to make use of, and an amount towards our day-to-day living expenses, we need to raise funds for flights, for vaccines, for the remainder of living costs, for insurances; costs which easily run into the tens of thousands per year. Costs which we cannot afford without a whole lot of help.
And that is where I must swallow my pride, and humbly ask: will you help us?
Any donation - from a couple of cents, to the largest number you can think up - will help us get to Lae, help us to stay in Lae, and help us to work with Lae City Mission in teaching, and training young men so that they may graduate with the skills they need to provide for themselves and their families, becoming contributing members of their communities, all tied together with the message of Christ Jesus' saving sacrifice.
I am going to be working with a group called City Mission PNG, in the city of Lae. Lae, like the larger city of Port Moresby, has a great deal of poverty, a great deal of homelessness, a great deal of crime, a great deal of unemployment, and a great deal of suffering. Lae City Mission aims to help the people of Lae, by giving them a hand up: the boys coming in off the streets are trained and taught skills which they will be able to use once they leave; skills which enable them to provide for themselves, to be in a better position than when they first came in. All this, and connected with the Gospel!
My role will be to work alongside the boys, as they become young men - and future elders, deacons, preachers, and teachers - teaching, guiding (and probably learning a whole bunch myself).
But, to be able to do this, we need to get there.
While we will be provided with a house to call home, transport to make use of, and an amount towards our day-to-day living expenses, we need to raise funds for flights, for vaccines, for the remainder of living costs, for insurances; costs which easily run into the tens of thousands per year. Costs which we cannot afford without a whole lot of help.
And that is where I must swallow my pride, and humbly ask: will you help us?
Any donation - from a couple of cents, to the largest number you can think up - will help us get to Lae, help us to stay in Lae, and help us to work with Lae City Mission in teaching, and training young men so that they may graduate with the skills they need to provide for themselves and their families, becoming contributing members of their communities, all tied together with the message of Christ Jesus' saving sacrifice.
If you wish to provide ongoing financial support, please consider filling out the form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10ibnLOTcDvRm3rugP7jYsSaUAsHNNDw4PwcO2OISKWw/viewform?c=0&w=1
Organizer
Dave van der Wal
Organizer
Bedfordale WA
