JANUARY 2015 PRAYER LETTER

January 2015 Prayer Letter

January 2015

KIDS 4 KUWAA

A Blessed and Happy New Year to our faithful prayer and financial supporters of the Kuwaa Mission. This month we want to share with you some information about the support received from school children at Christ Lutheran Church in Costa Mesa, California. Five years ago the congregation and its school began to support the Kuwaa Mission through various fundraisers and activities informing members about the work of the Mission, especially during the recent Ebola crisis in Liberia.

These 3 girls raised over $176 for K4K by making and selling bracelets at church.

Ed and Diane Stelling, Kids4Kuwaa students and school principal Caleb McFerran.

The school children raised $603.35 in the October 2014 weekly chapel offerings.

Na mama o, tegbela gbaa (Thank you, very much, in Kuwaa) boys and girls of our schools and Sunday Schools as you share your love for the Lord with the Kuwaa children. Please continue to pray for the Mission and the Kuwaa children in Liberia.

If your congregation, school or Sunday School would like to get involved, we have Kids4Kuwaa bookmarks and coloring page masters available for children.

Please contact us by email at: estelling@kuwaamission.org

Donations can be given in two ways:

1. Make out check to: The Kuwaa Mission (send to Bethany Lutheran Church (see below))

2. Go to the Kuwaa Mission Website at www.kuwaamission.org: use PayPal to make a one time or automatic monthly donation

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Kuwaa Mission 5 Year Anniversary Prayer Letter

5 Year Anniversary 2014

Help celebrate The Kuwaa Missions 5^thAnniversary

Pray, Volunteer, Donate or Partner

With God all things are possible Matt 19: 4

During this Holiday season please join the Kuwaa Mission Board as we celebrate five years of God’s work.

On November 9^th 2014 Board member Lolitha Shepard celebrated with Bethany Lutheran Church in Slidell Louisiana, the birth place of the Kuwaa Mission.

The members were moved to see how God is transforming the lives of the Kuwaa people in far away West Africa. This transformation was supported by donors like you and church congregations who have prayed and decided to pledge their financial support to the Kuwaa Mission. Much work has been accomplished in the past five years including the installation or repair of wells in thirteen of the sixteen villages. There have been many helpful workshops and training from well pump operation to the proper use of water filters. In the last year the Kuwaa Mission has been blessed to build a clinic in the village of Kondesu which will serve many of the surrounding villages with much needed medical care. There is much work still to do in the coming months and years, please pause to pray and send much needed financial support for both the Kuwaa Mission and the Ebola epidemic.

We the Kuwaa Mission Board would like to thank all our Men & Women who have served in the United States Military as we observed Veterans Day Nov 11, 2014.

The Kuwaa Mission Board would like to thank each and every person who has prayed, donated their time, talent and treasures to the service of caring for God’s people.

Please pray for The Kuwaa Mission Board members and their families. Especially Cindy Bye, Rev Dick Thompson and Stan Olsen as they recover from surgery and the Bishop of the LCL Jensen Seyenkulo and all other aide works from around the world involved in the Ebola epidemic in Liberia.

Donations can be given in two ways:

1. Make out check to: The Kuwaa Mission (send to Bethany Lutheran Church (see below))

2. Go to the Kuwaa Mission Website at www.kuwaamission.org: use PayPal to make a one time or automatic monthly donation

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December 2014 Prayer Letter

Kuwaa Mission December 2014 Prayer Letter

December 2014

Our greetings to all of our mission partners this sacred season of the year from the Kuwaa Mission. Christmas is typically a season of the year for which we give thanks to our friends, and the Kuwaa Mission has much to be thankful for. Your support is at the top of the list. Without your prayer and financial support the Mission would not have been able to accomplish what it did. What has been accomplished you may ask?

• Distributed over 100 water filters to 16 villages

• Installed 12 wells and rehabilitated many others

• Provided 3 scholarships for “Deacon Training” successfully completed

• Provided one nursing scholarship successfully completed

• Conducted our initial “Teacher Training” workshops

• Conducted two “Water Well Pump Maintenance Training” workshops

• Conducted our initial “Village Sanitation” workshop

• Conducted our initial “Vacation Bible School”

• Built a remote 8 room rural clinic with well and Nurse Quarter to Liberian Health Department standards and turned it over to the Ministry of Health via a Memorandum of Understanding

• Provided support and funds to the Lutheran Church in Liberia and Samaritans Purse in the fight against the Ebola virus

• Provided medicines and medical supplies to the clinics in Fassama and Kondesu as well as midwives in the villages

• Built a strong partnership with the Lutheran Church in Liberia

• Initiated a working relationship between the Lutheran Church of Liberia and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Liberia

• Earned the respect and trust of the Kuwaa People

• Built a strong working relationship with the Government of Liberia

• Built a strong partnership with Samaritans Purse

All of these accomplishments were only possible with the financial support of individuals, churches and organizations who believed in the Kuwaa Mission, in its goals and in its capacity to successfully implement its objectives. I urgently request your continued support this year. Each year the Mission has successfully completed its planned work program. The Kuwaa Mission continues to place high expectations on its prayer and financial warriors, and the year 2015 is no exception. This coming year the Kuwaa Mission plans to:

• Rehabilitate the bridges between Fassama and Kondesu to insure that vehicles, especially the Ministry of Health, can travel to the new clinic in Kondesu. This will also enable the continued development of this area of the Kuwaa kingdom. Projected cost $9,500 usd.

• Install three new wells and conduct another well training workshop. Projected cost $29,725 usd.

• Conduct another village sanitation program. Projected cost $850 usd.

• Conduct another Vacation Bible School. Projected cost $550 usd.

• The total work program for this year is $40,625 usd.

Transportation of people and materials has always been the most expensive part of the Mission’s program and remains our largest challenge. Thanks to our dedicated contractors and Samaritans Purse we have always been successful in overcoming this challenge.

Our balance sheet, while very positive, requires your immediate help to continue our successful record of assistance to this remote area of Liberia and the people who have been neglected by their government. We continue to look to new areas of support and while promising have yet to actually result in funding. Most of us are very fortunate in that we really don’t need “another package under the tree”. However there are thousands in the Kuwaa area that do need “a package” and as the ONLY organization providing help to the people of this area please consider giving a generous donation to the Kuwaa Mission’s General Fund in honor of someone dear to you. Not only will you be honoring someone and letting them know you will be providing assistance to many people who truly need and appreciate your assistance in their difficult lives.

I ask you, as CEO of the Kuwaa Mission, to prayerfully consider the Mission and its work. To keep the work going, during this Christmas season please give to the Kuwaa Mission’s work as generously as possible. Please send all donations to Bethany Lutheran Church to the address as noted below. You can also go to our website www.kuwaamission.org for “PayPal” donations. It is also very easy to set up automatic monthly donations to the Kuwaa Mission by visiting the website.

Thank you again for your support. From all of the Board of Directors, we pray that you have a truly blessed Christmas season.

Stan Olsen, CEO

Donations can be given in two ways:

1. Make out check to: The Kuwaa Mission (send to Bethany Lutheran Church (see below))

2. Go to the Kuwaa Mission Website at www.kuwaamission.org: use PayPal to make a one time or automatic monthly donation

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October 2014 Prayer Letter

Kuwaa Mission October 2014 Prayer Letter

October 2014

Greetings in the Name of Christ,

“As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1Thess 1:3

Happy 5^th Anniversary, Kuwaa Mission!

The Kuwaa Mission is having an anniversary celebration. That’s right- we’re celebrating our 5^th Anniversary during the month of November and many of our partner congregations are joining in the celebration. During the past five years, you, our donors and partner congregations, have helped build wells for safe drinking water; clinics for medical care; scholarships for technicians, nurses, and evangelists; training for well and filter care; school supplies and Christian education to families in the villages of the Kuwaa Chiefdom. All of these vital projects could not have been accomplished without the support of our partners in ministry. We are so thankful for your prayers and generous contributions over these last five years. We couldn’t have done it without you.

It’s not too late to celebrate with us! We suggested November for your congregation’s Kuwaa 5^th Anniversary Celebration, but any day that is convenient for your congregation would do. It could be as simple as using the Litany of Celebration & Thanksgiving that follows during your morning worship, taking up a “noisy (loose change) offering,” and serving a “birthday” cake following the service where you might play the YouTube video of the Mission’s progress. Or you might choose to host a Liberian meal on a Sunday evening or week night. If you have questions or would like more ideas for planning, please check out our website at www.kuwaamission.org. There you will find resources to assist you in spreading the message of hope that has been made possible by your faithful support of the Kuwaa Mission.

Thank you for all you’ve done and continue to do for the Kuwaa people. Now, let’s PARTY!

The following Litany or a similar prayer may be offered in worship as part of a celebration of the Kuwaa Mission 5^th Anniversary.

Litany of Celebration & Thanksgiving for the Kuwaa Mission

Leader: God the Creator, maker of heaven and Earth,

Congregation: Have mercy on us.

Leader: God the Son, Redeemer of the world,

Congregation: Have mercy on us.

Leader: God the Holy Spirit, Sanctifier of the Faithful,

Congregation: Have mercy on us.

Leader: Holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, one God,

Congregation: Have mercy on us.

Leader: That it may please you to have your church go into all the world to help others so that the name of Jesus may be known and worshipped by all peoples,