Mustard Seed Canada - Monday, January 30, 2012
A friend of Mustard Seed sent a
gift for a Mustard Seed school’s Orchid Club as a Christmas gift to her
husband. She might have imagined her gift as a bunch of garden tools.
But there were few details with the thank you…until today when this note
arrived. Please pass on some information about the money that was sent for
the orchid club last Christmas. We gave the funds in rupiahs to the
Science Club coordinator to work together with the students on a project.
I have a complete breakdown of expenses plus all of the receipts.
They bought two gardening tools, a book about orchids, pots, trays, and
twenty orchids, which they distributed to the classrooms. They have been
teaching the students how to care for the orchids, and if one of the orchids
dies, the class that was taking care of it replaces it. Every single one
of the twenty orchids is a different variety.
Not only is this Christmas gift still
blooming with life, but in a country where half of the population is involved
in agriculture, knowing how to care for orchids could lead to gainful
employment.
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Mustard Seed Canada - Friday, January 14, 2011
This just in from our Director in Indonesia:
Mount Bromo has been erupting. The result? About fifty houses have been destroyed. A team of students from one of our High Schools put together some emergency aid kits. They traveled to the disaster area to give the kids to a local pastor for distribution to the families.
The whole village is covered with thick ash. Here is a photo was taken by one of the students yesterday.
This is just one of the ways Mustard Seed schools work within the communities and are able to help others. Please help us to continue to support our amazing students and relief projects like this when needed. If you donate today, we can forward the funds to where they are needed the most!
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Mustard Seed Canada - Wednesday, November 17, 2010
I knew I had the perfect gift idea when letters arrived from an orphanage and many of the children were writing about the long walk to school. I’d save up enough to send money for bicycles, maybe even one for each of the children. And I was so happy when the day came to forward my donation. But the children’s reply contained a mixed message: “Thank you for the bicycles. They are a big help. But really we’d like a toilet. Really now, just what were they thinking, an American standard? Well, I soon found out. The orphanage's toilet was a hole in the ground sheltered by a tarpaulin to offer some privacy. When the torrential rains came, their toilet became a nasty mess. It turned out they were really just asking for something more permanent, an outhouse raised up off the ground and a properly dug septic bed.
A telling moment; even though I don't consider myself a technocrat, I realized that the simplicity of the children's real needs was far more basic than an ordinary Canadian could imagine. We have so much, and they have so little.
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Mustard Seed Canada - Wednesday, June 16, 2010
We often receive letters and bits of news from Mustard Seed's schools in East Asia but it takes time for us to to through everything and translate before we can share them with you. This is what we are accomplishing overseas with your generous support. Here is an encouraging update sent to us from a 14 year old Mustard Seed student named Iruni.
Hi, my name is Iruni. I’m fourteen and I’m in the eighth class.
I give thanks to God because I can study and live here in this Children’s Home. I am an only child. I don’t have a mommy because she passed away when I was born so I never saw her. I need to study and be a success in my life. Ideally, I’d like to become a nurse.
My day is spent studying at school from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. everyday, Monday to Saturday. We have community prayer here every morning and evening. We study English with Uncle Bema three hours a week.
I just want to say thank you for all of this.
May God bless you all.
Iruni
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Mustard Seed Canada - Tuesday, June 15, 2010
We have just received news and an urgent request from a student attending a Mustard Seed sponsored school in an Indonesian village. This village is located in the jungle and she has been working hard to save enough money to go to college. This particular student is fiercely determined to graduate from high school, attend college and return to her village in the jungle to become a teacher. Living in a jungle village makes it very difficult for her to earn or raise funds without our help.
The amount she needs to raise is $250 for each college semester. She does not have resources such as government student funding like we have in Canada so organizations like Mustard Seed are her only chance to break the cycle of poverty, continue her education and give back to her village. As you can see, our dollars stretch very far in Indonesia. If you would like to help send her to college, please donate to our "After High School fund".
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Mustard Seed Canada - Monday, June 07, 2010
Bible Passage: Galatians 2:1-21
Give thanks for Shari’s mentorship at the girls home in Central Kalimantan.
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