Construction Update
Our efforts to make progress on the construction of our facility are paying off! We have now installed all the doors (both interior and exterior) on the children’s home and guard house.
We have also completed the installation of all our light fixtures and are now installing our plumbing fixtures as well as applying interior paint.
We are getting prices from welders to build the bunk beds for the children, and we are canvassing stores for prices on other items necessary to make this house a home for the needy children that will live here under our care. We still need donations toward the home furnishings!
The guard house is mostly completed and is now in use by our night security guard.
January Outreach!
We are planning another outreach for the impoverished community just across the road from our orphanage property on Thurs. January 24, 2019.
Our parents, Ron and Pat Brown, will be visiting with us a few days during their travels in SE Asia and will assist us with the outreach! We will also have another guest, Mr. Larry Judd from Ooltewah church of Christ in Ooltewah, Tennessee. We are also expecting board members Elmer Palacio and his wifeRubylyn from Cebu (Babag church of Christ / We Care Christian Center of Cebu, Inc.) who will also be able to be with us for the event.
The ladies of Dorcus Club of the Ooltewah congregation, of which Larry’s wife Cheryl Buchanan Judd is a part of, will be providing handmade dresses and shorts for the children of this community!
Georgia has made small coloring books for each child based on the “creation” we read about in Genesis 1, and we will provide each child with some crayons.
We will also provide both physical as well as “spiritual” food for all those in attendance. We will also offer bible studies to anyone interested.
More details to come as we finalize plans for the event!
If you would like to be part of this outreach please send your donation to:
Checks should be made to:
Philippine Missions
(Earmark checks: Jan. 2019 outreach)
Thank you for all your donations for this event, as well as those toward our facility construction!
Matt. 25:40
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Sustainability Program
You may be aware of our sustainability program/plan, in that we will provide as much of our own food as possible. This will reduce the cost of operations and ease the burden on donors. We currently have planted a number of different varieties of plants and trees…. some of which are producing food now, but much more to come in the future. We have papaya, banana, pineapple, mango, avocado, star fruit (Carambola), atis (custard apple), tambis (watery rose apple), chico (sapodilla), dwarf coconut, lemon grass, malunggay (Moringa oleifera), ube (Dioscorea alata, known as purple yam), rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum), guava, pomelo (grapefruit), and calamansi (Calamondin – lime).
We also plan to have extensive vegetable gardens as well. While one focus of our sustainability plan is to provide food for ourselves (orphans & staff), the second motive is that any excess of our production will be given to the impoverished communities in the area.
Matthew 25:35 (KJV)
For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in.
Our Sincere thanks and God’s Blessings to you all,
Ronald and Georgia Brown
Tanjay City, Philippines
August 2018 Newsletter
Volume 4 Issue 44