needy. Our many years in missionary work provided ample experience in understanding the unique needs of hurting people.The House of Blessing has historically been Calvary Lighthouse's vehicle for meeting physical needs. We have expanded our tent stakes over the past few years and built a separate non-profit organization, COMMUNITY LIGHTHOUSE. This fully registered, tax-deductible organization is designed as a community development entity. For in America today, we find that some donors will give to a church and some will not. Through Community Lighthouse, we have created an organization that allows us to serve the poor and stand inside a new organization. We continue to show the love of Jesus and we continue to obey our Lord's commands. Yet, we invite others who may not be comfortable with our church to partner with us in helping the poor. God has called us to be peaceful as doves and wise as serpents!
These efforts have paid off (literally!) and today we received our first grant. The UPS Foundation of Metro NY & NJ presented our Board Chairman, James Payne, with a check for $21,630. These monies are targeted for a computer system to process our many clients and help us control our inventory. By streamlining this process, we will be able to serve even more families. This upgrade will also be a strategic move to help us better document the gender, race, and age of our clients. So much funding is predicated upon these classifications. We will soon be able to apply for more grants using this valuable information.
Praise God for Orlando and Irma Rodriguez for helping us through this process. God is opening new doors of opportunity for us and we are so thankful for His blessing upon the HOB ministry.
Praise the Lord for this awesome Ministry, and for the grants that will help us meet the needs of families who are going through hard times.
ReplyDeleteThe House of blessing, and Community Lighthouse are truly God's Love in action.
Praise the Lord for this church and the body of believer's here who get involved and put their faith in action!!!
Let's continue to be in intercessary prayer for this church, Calvary Academy, and all that happen's here in this body, as well as all Christians throughout the world. We need to pray one for another and encourage eachother to finish the race and finish strong!!
Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!