Keeping families together this month means.... Giving Tuesday is here: a day "Tue" give to your favorite charity—and we hope that's us!Giving TuesdayBlack Friday and Cyber Monday are over, and today is #GivingTuesday. If you are unfamiliar with Giving Tuesday, it's a day to offset the "buying" mindset of the past few days and do good stuff for your favorite charity or cause. Whether you bake good stuff, make good stuff, donate good stuff, tweet good stuff, or just say good stuff—whatever you do, we want you to do it for charity this Giving Tuesday. And hopefully you pick Open Arms as your favorite charity! Today is not a day to go shopping, it is a day to give. Give to keep children off the streets and out of orphanages. It costs about $2,400 per year to give full family help to one child in our care. Give to keep kids like 7-year-old Raul, who used to stay at home and care for his 1-year-old brother Miguel Angel—until we opened our doors to Camalu. Now, they are both safe. Now they can be kids without the risks and dangers of being locked in their home while their single mom goes to work. Give to keep families together, because children belong in families. Give towards a new two acre-property in Camalu, which will cost $35,000 to build. We need this property to provide housing for our mission teams and volunteers. This is vital to our mission, as we depend on hundreds of volunteers year-round to serve the children and the community. So far, $7,400 has been given for this property. Give towards our Camalu church plant, where hundreds of people will be given the opportunity to find new life in Christ. We are in need of about $5,000 a month to pay our pastoral staff and run this facet of the ministry. Partner with us as we open our arms to the community and plant a church. (Last week, we had our first preview service. We will have one service every month until the grand opening of the church on March 12, 2017. At this service, 99 people were in attendance, 12 were saved, and 9 were baptized. God is moving, and you can be a part of it!) We hope you pick Open Arms this giving Tuesday—and the rest of the year! All donations are tax-deductible and, above all, we know you will be blessed for giving. |